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Theme Parks

Monday, September 21, 2020 to Friday, September 25, 2020

Theme week organized by

Ashley JonesGeorgia State University

The Dark Theme Park

By Scott A Lukas

Monday, September 21, 2020

"Welcome (Or Stay At?) Home:” Theme Parks and COVID-19

By Carter Moulton

Tuesday, September 22, 2020

Digital Disneyland

By Arthur D. Soto-Vasquez

Wednesday, September 23, 2020

Theme Parks Go Virtual: An Analysis of Gaming Simulations of Theme Parks

Thursday, September 24, 2020

Featured Content

9/21/2020 to 9/25/2020
Theme Parks

Theme week organized by
Ashley JonesGeorgia State University
9/14/2020 to 9/18/2020
Watchmen

Theme week organized by
Jayson QuearryGeorgia State University
8/31/2020
Japanese Paratexts

Theme week organized by
Colleen LairdUniversity of British Columbia
6/28/2020 to 7/3/2020
The Pandemic and Public Memory

Theme week organized by
Jefferson WalkerThe University of Montevallo
6/20/2020 to 6/26/2020
JCMS In Focus: Global Netflix

Theme week organized by
Ramon LobatoRMIT University
Amanda D LotzQueensland University of Technology
6/14/2020 to 6/20/2020
Coronavirus and Cinematic Experience

Theme week organized by
Nicholas BaerUniversity of Groningen
Julian HanichUniversity of Groningen

Recent comments

Re: The Sister and the Egg: Myth and Ritual Expression in HBO's Watchmen

Thank you, Robert for your comment...

By Celeste Lacroix

Monday, September 21, 2020 - 16:57

My colleague, Robert Westerfelfhaus and I thank you for your thoughtful engagement with our take on HBO's The Watchmen. In light of your comments, we clarify our concern regarding who holds and wields power, which has nothing to do with...
Re: “That Actually Happened” or Blackness, Comics, & Edutainment: Another Look At HBO’s Watchmen

Edutainment in Popular-Culture Texts

By Sarah A. Riddick

Monday, September 21, 2020 - 00:34

Asha, thank you for sharing your insights and for inviting us to reflect on edutainment and popular culture. You ask, “[H]ow useful and effective is Black history inside of popular culture for producing real life change from the information weaved...
Re: New Nostalgia in “Watchmen”

Critical Nostalgia - I like!

By Asha S. Winfield

Friday, September 18, 2020 - 05:01

Hi Jade. I agree that your ideas around critical nostalgia are so thoughtful and meaningful. I make space in my own research to discuss the usefulness of history and the exposure of its truths, particularly our racial truths in our...
Re: The Sister and the Egg: Myth and Ritual Expression in HBO's Watchmen

Equipment for Living, Perceptions of Power, and Post-Racism

By Robert Mejia

Wednesday, September 16, 2020 - 21:57

Hi Celeste and Robert, I am intrigued by the implications of the equipment for living offered by the Watchmen. Let me clarify, your analysis suggests that HBO’s Watchmen operates as mythically informed mediated ritual of disquiet, which you define...
Re: New Nostalgia in “Watchmen”

Critical Nostalgia and Exchange between Multiple (uneven) Bodies

By Robert Mejia

Wednesday, September 16, 2020 - 16:48

Hi Jade, I want to second Jayson’s comment regarding your insightful post. I too am interested in the politics of nostalgia and appreciate your pointing us towards your recent TPQ publication (congratulations by the way! I look forward to reading it...