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Fall 08

Read Introduction

Articles

By, For, and About: The 'Real' Problem in the Feminist Film Movement
by Shilyh Warren

Gray or Black? Howard Koch and the Elusive Architecture of the Hollywood "Lists"
by Heather Heckman

Reviews

Media Spectacle and the 2008 Presidential Election: Some Pre-Election Reflections
by Douglas Kellner

Low and Behold: Using Fiction/Documentary Hybridity to See the Real Damage of Hurricane Katrina
by David O'Grady

Columns

New Media as Election Strategy: How Obama and McCain Court the Net Generation
by Brett McCracken

Out of the Mouths of Babes: Animated Sitcoms and Political Incorrectness
by Phil Scepanski

Bad Techno-Subjects: Griefing is Serious Business
by Aubrey Anable

Meta

Scholars on the Subject of Media, Politics and the Academy (in 12 parts)
By Allyson Nadia Field, Toby Miller, Bill Nichols, and Chuck Tryon

Spring 08

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Articles

Historiography of the World Part 1: The Jewish Body, Historical Crisis and The Comedic Farce
by Joshua Louis Moss

Acting for the Cameras: Performance in the Multi-Camera Sitcom
by Christine Becker

Male Masculinity as the Celebration of Failure: The Frat Pack, Women, and the Trauma of Victimization in the "Dude Flick"
by Peter Alilunas

Reviews

O Brother, O Sister
by Jeffrey Sconce

And Now, Just the News: A Week in the Life of A Daily Show
by Nick Marx

The Darjeeling Limited: Critiquing Orientalism on the Train to Nowhere
by Nandana Bose

Columns

First-Person-Shooter-Suicide and Some Political Provocations of Emergent Gameplay
by John Bridge

Machinimateur Wanted: The Professionalization of Machinima
by Robert Jones

Game Capture: The Machinima Archive and the History of Digital Games
by Henry Lowood

Notes on What One Can Learn About a Video Game Without Playing It
by Deanna Gross

Trauma Engines: Representing School Shootings Through Halo
by Harrison Gish

Meta

A Manifesto For Critical Media
by Eric Faden

The Documentary's New Politics
by Eric Faden

"Here Comes the Sun?" Persephone's Winter and the Gendered Construction of Myth
by Phil Wagner

Some Analog Lines
David Lowery

World of Wonder: An Authorized Documentary of a Production Subculture
by Adam Fish

Notes Towards a Project on Citizen Kane
by Paul Malcolm

Spring 07

Articles

Slights and Slants: Visual Representation in Carnivale
by Moe Folk

Negotiating Global/Local Identities: Jia Zhang-ke's The World
by Clifford Hilo

Columns

The Game Mechanics of Enlightenment - An Interview With Tracy Fullerton
by Jonathan Cohn

Is that a Kevin Smith in Your Pocket? Notes on a (Possibly) Emerging Platform
by Ethan Tussey

Obscure Objects of Media Studies: Echo, Hotbird and Ikonos
by Lisa Parks

Installments

A Curious Circumstance of the iPod Shuffle
by Bill Bahng Boyer

Reviews

The Promise: Re-writing Romantic Archetypes
by Ya-chen Chen

In Response to the AFI: Top 100 American Films by Women Directors
by Erin Hill and Brian Hu

Spring 06

Articles

"This is our Holocaust": Deepa Mehta's Earth and the Question of Partition Trauma
by Dorothy Barenscott

Eija-Liisa Ahtila's Affective Images in The House
by Tarja Laine

Storied Stores: Visual Culture and a People's History of the Archive
by Zoe Trodd

Reviews

Women's History Trilogy (Kim Soyoung, 2000-2004)
by Serena Formica

Closed Borders and Open Secrets: Regional Lockout, the Film Industry, and Code-Free DVD Players
by Brian Hu

Fostering International Cinema: The Rotterdam Film Festival, CineMart, and the Hubert Bals Fund
by Daniel Steinhart

Spring 05

Articles

Screen Angst: New Media Orientations and Youthfulness
by Stephen Michael Charbonneau

Inch'Allah Dimanche vs. Lila dit Ca: Transnational Feminism Counters the Streamlining of Accented Cinema
by Zinaid Meeran

Virtuality and Control In Spielberg's Minority Report
by Jason Skonieczny

Algunos Aspectos del Filmoteca de la UNAM
by Noah Zweig

Reviews

Taking Film Studies to the Streets (and Back Again): On the Necessity of Criticism
by Brian Hu

Hollywood on the Head of a Pin: Montage and Marketing at the Oscars
by Lisa Kernan

Save the Green Planet!, Memories of Murder, and the 80s in Cinema
by Byun Sungchan, translated by Hyongshin Kim

Accessing Wal-Mart on the Internet: Diegetic Layers and Alternative Distribution and Exhibition Practices
by Rowena S. Aquino

Columns

Notes from a Videogame Breakdown
by Savitri Young

Artificial Life in Real Time
by Bernardo Rondeau

Meta

Notes on the "Historical Turn" and the Uses of Theory
by Eric Vanstrom

Your History Acts as Your Gravity: On Personal History, Passion, and Media Studies
by Laurel Westrup


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