In Media Res

Search results

• In Media Res
  

  (Im)Possible Asias: Introduction

  By

  Anirban Baishya University of Southern California

  March 14, 2016

  (Im)Possible Asias: Introduction identity cinema (Im)Possible Asias Curator's Note Where is ... that we speak of “(Im)Possible Asias,” where the limits on these multiple imaginations always linger on ... valuable inputs on this post (Im)Possible Asias from Darshana Sreedhar Mini ...
• In Media Res
  

  Skewering Normative Cuteness with Latinidad

  By

  Rebecca Mercedes Gordon Northern Arizona University

  April 04, 2016

  Kitty after Asians), but Latino identity bears an ambiguous relation to the racialized and classed ... Betty’s head. Charlie’s actions reflect an everyday cruelty made possible by Charlie’s physical cuteness ...
• In Media Res
  

  erotics and repression in stranger chat sites

  By

  David J. Phillips U. Toronto, Faculty of Information

  February 18, 2011

  erotics chatroulette Curator's Note I’m taken with the erotics of “random stranger” websites – omegle ... McGrath, in “Loving Big Brother,” writes about the erotic possibilities of these new topographies, of the ...
• In Media Res
  

  Crafting Croft: Avatars, Identity, Representation

  By

  Linzi Juliano University of California, Los Angeles

  March 14, 2013

  1 comment

  muscular, mustachioed, reptilian, or an Asian woman (as in the Saints Row series), these options are ...
• In Media Res
  

  Jerry Sandusky, Joe Paterno and Penn State Fans: Investments of Sympathy and Identity

  By

  Samir Dayal Bentley University

  November 28, 2011

  3 comments

  fans/protestors to be motivated less by possible hurt to football and moved more by possible physical or psychic ...
• In Media Res
  

  “I wanna do a lot of things that don’t make sense”: Intimate Knowledge and Erotic Power

  By

  Anna Lee Swan University of Washington

  March 24, 2017

  a stereotypical Black masculine façade, and instead explores the possibilities of the erotic as a way of knowing. ...
• In Media Res
  

  Life. Unscripted?

  By

  Chris Tokuhama University of Southern California

  January 30, 2014

  5 comments

  Life. Unscripted? storytelling reality television media hoaxes media identity Elan Gale Curator's Note As a child I distinctly remember being upset by Candid Camera:   “What right did the show have,” I thought, “to inconvenience others in order to pr ...
• In Media Res
  

  Queer World Making in Canadian Comedies

  By

  Jason Edward Black University of North Carolina at Charlotte

  May 22, 2020

  can affirm queer world making, it is possible for those offscreen to do the same regardless of their ...
• In Media Res
  

  Vlogs as a Form of True-Life Adaptation – Analyzing The Fifty Project

  By

  Monika Raesch

  October 01, 2025

  possibility of finding “an understanding of adaptation itself as a medium” (545). “Asking how adaptation ...
• In Media Res
  

  Of Catfish and Cod

  By

  Elizabeth Lenaghan Northwestern University

  January 31, 2014

  7 comments

  Of Catfish and Cod media hoax identity digital age catfishing Catfish Curator's Note During these final minutes of Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman's 2010 Catfish, Vince Pierce explains the film's title and names a phenomenon that would achie ...