GTMO as Museum Artifact war on terror human rights GTMO Curator's Note GTMO as Museum Artefact Michael Welch, Professor, Rutgers University, USA In my recent book, Escape to Prison: Penal Tourism and the Pull of Punishment (2015, University of Califo ...
Pretty Little Peaks: Policing the Gendered Boundary of Quality Television Twin Peaks soap opera Pretty Little Liars Homage cinema journal Curator's Note Twin Peaks (ABC, 1990–1991) is often invoked by critics in relation to any series that has a murd ...
Courting the Voter Through Instagram self-branding Platforms Instagram immaterial labor affective labor 2016 Election Curator's Note With the rise of neoliberalism and promotional capitalism, workers are expected to become “entrepreneurs of the self” ...
Not Just a Sports Film: Spike Lee‘s Layered Contexts and Implications in He Got Game Sports Film Spike Lee race capitalism Curator's Note Since the mid-1980s, Spike Lee has become one of the most discussed African-American film directors. Lee' ...
A hair of the dog that bit us Steven Shaviro's Post-Cinematic Affect Shaviro cultural theory cinema capitalism Curator's Note Post-Cinematic Affect is a work of “affective mapping” for a world of neoliberal, networked and hypermediated, endlessl ...
Advertising Hillbillies: Genre, Authorship and Audience advertising music corporate authorship genres recording industry talent scouts country 1920s generative mechanisms Gennett Chubby Parker Dock Roberts Okeh Fiddlin' John Carson Henry Whitter Cura ...
A Day in the Life: Using the Music- a Dead Zone vid by Shalott and Speranza USA Network synching narrative lyrics fan vids editing DIY Dead Zone Curator's Note One of the challenges vidders face is finding a song with lyrics that work for the charact ...
Hulk Smash Wimpy White Man Who is Also Hulk: Reasserting Masculine Authority through Masochism whiteness race gender adaptation masculinity superheroes masochism Marvel Enterprises CBS 1970s destabilize David Savran reflexive sadomasochism backlash Incred ...
Reality TV in a War Zone reality TV Labour and Materials Iraqi Star Iraq international TV formats globalization global/local Extreme Makeover American Idol Curator's Note I consistently struggle with the concept of hybridity when we hit the section o ...