Images collected from The Guardian and The Nation.

Sports & Politics in the U.S.

Monday, April 8, 2019 to Friday, April 12, 2019

Theme week organized by

Dafna KaufmanGeorgia State University

"Brand Ambassadors": Cheerleaders, Gendered Labor, and Institutional Crisis in the NFL

By Brett Siegel

Monday, April 8, 2019

1 comment

Defamiliarizing Concussions

By Nathan Kalman-Lamb

Tuesday, April 9, 2019

Invisible Man: Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf's Forgotten Protest

By Dafna Kaufman

Wednesday, April 10, 2019

How The Treatment of Women Sportscasters Foretold The Rise of Trumpism

By Guy Harrison

Thursday, April 11, 2019

Sports, Politics, and the #MeToo Movement

By Kathleen Bachynski

Friday, April 12, 2019

Contributors

Brett Siegel

Doctoral Student & Assistant InstructorThe University of Texas at Austin

Nathan Kalman-Lamb

Lecturing FellowDuke University

Dafna Kaufman

Student MA Film Studies Georgia State University

Guy Harrison

Assistant Professor, Telecommunication StudiesYoungstown State University

Recent comments

Re: Retroactive Continuity to the Maximoff: Scarlet Witch, Quicksilver and the impact of MCU Narratives on Marvel’s Comic Pages

Thanks for the response

By Jayson Quearry

2 hours 44 min ago

First off, I am glad you've enjoyed participating in the theme week; as I said above, I think you brought a really vital interaction between the MCU and Marvel Comics into the discussion. I completely agree with your argument that many of these...
Re: Digital De-Aging in the Marvel Cinematic Universe

Memory

By Jayson Quearry

3 hours 7 min ago

Thank you, Drew, for contributing such a thoughtful and thought-provoking post! The technology is, without a doubt, improving, and it's clear that Disney and Marvel have been intentionally including flashback scenes to create an excuse for...
Re: Digital De-Aging in the Marvel Cinematic Universe

Interesting!

By Monica Roxanne Sandler

18 hours 54 min ago

Oh! That's really fascinating, I hadn't thought of that element, the modes of production that create de-aging.
Re: Digital De-Aging in the Marvel Cinematic Universe

Star Knowledge

By Drew Ayers

Thursday, April 18, 2019 - 21:06

Thanks for the questions, Monica. From a production standpoint, de-aging well-known actors makes the process easier, since there's so much imagery on which to draw. For an actor like Downey Jr., there's an extensive library of images from his...
Re: Digital De-Aging in the Marvel Cinematic Universe

Believability

By Drew Ayers

Thursday, April 18, 2019 - 21:01

Thanks for sharing your thoughts, Jayson, and thanks for organizing this theme week! In terms of the "uncanny valley," I think technological advances and audience familiarity with digital techniques have made this less of a problem. Firstly,...