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Boys Love (BL) Evolving into Gay Love?: Exploring the Popularity and...
Boys Love (BL) may sound unfamiliar to people in the West, where another similar genre, referred to as slash fiction, has more cultural and academic currency. Essentially, BL is a media genre...
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Reaching young audiences in a multi-platform era: What to do?!Eva Novrup...
Figure 1. Reaching Young Audiences at the University of Copenhagen, 9-10 November 2023. Children are the world’s worst viewers! In the words of the legendary Danish commissioner of children’s...
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”Real EMO”: Mythologizing and Marketing EMO Music Francesca Sobande / Cardiff...
When We Were Young Festival Entrance Emo is back. To some, the music genre that is known for embracing emotional lyrics and equally brooding aesthetics never left. After all, as Fathallah (2020)...
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Over*Flow: “Birth is Violent”: Television’s Response to Post-Roe Reproductive...
Dr. Mantle (Rachel Weisz) delivering a baby in Amazon Prime’s Dead Ringers “Birth is violent” could be considered the tagline for the television miniseries Dead Ringers (Amazon Prime, 2023). It...
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Over*Flow: Trans Joy and Body Horror in Emerging Trans CinemaPaige Macintosh...
Blink Bogan and Elz Carrad as Mother and Father (Image provided by filmmakers. Credit: Willow Heron). From Jared Leto’s painfully ostentatious work in Dallas Buyers Club to Scarlett Johansson’s...
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Over*Flow: Martha Stewart’s Star Persona and the 21st-Century InfluencerEmma...
Martha Stewart in a January 2024 Instagram post on her second account. In 1994, Martha Stewart tiled the bottom of a swimming pool with cut-up credit cards in a mosaic of Botticelli’s “Birth of...
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Mapping Situated Practice from an Insider’s Perspective Josephine Coleman /...
Image 1: The Researcher reporting at Harpenden Xmas Lights in November 2017. When I began my doctoral research exploring how community radio practitioners make programmes by sourcing, shaping and...
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Sam Reich’s Dropout: Ethical Collaboration and Engaging Fandom Toward Niche...
Early during the pandemic shutdowns of 2020, a friend asked me if I wanted to join her virtual Dungeons & Dragons game. To make me feel comfortable joining a game with significant rules and...
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Exporting local nostalgia – Polish past for global audiencesSylwia Szostak /...
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Stranded in Osaka: Storytelling through TikTokTrevor Boffone / University of...
Figure 1. Author, fellow travelers, and the local news crew at Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston on August 14, 2023. Photo courtesy of the Author. I was stranded in Osaka. I had taken a...
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Oscars 2024: And the Award for Best Publicity Stunt Goes to…Lauren Steimer /...
Image 1. Three Ages (1923) Stunt Depicted in Oscars Tribute At the 2024 Academy Awards, Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt presented a segment on Hollywood stunt work, which included a video montage...
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TikTok Broadway: Towards a New (Digital) Canon of Musical TheatreTrevor...
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Approaching Distribution StudiesRahul Mukherjee / University of Pennsylvania
Figure 1: Dispersion What does one study while researching media distribution? What are the sites of distribution, or put another way, what are the passageways through which distribution occurs? Alisa...
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The “Beautiful Weirdness” of NBA League PassBranden Buehler / Seton Hall...
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Ryan Gosling Brings the Kenergy, Or Barbie’s Night Out at the OscarsCourtney...
After watching Ryan Gosling’s “I’m Just Ken” performance at the 2024 Academy Awards ceremony, I knew immediately I had to write about it. The musical performance itself was pure sugary confection for...
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There Is Something Wrong With Falling In Love: K-Pop Idols, Romance, And The...
Figure 1. Still Cut of The World of the Married “There is nothing wrong with falling in love!” (Figure 1). For audiences of Korean pop culture, this is a famous line uttered by a middle-aged man to...
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How to Measure Buzz? OTT Data Sets and Media Audiences in IndiaIshita Tiwary...
Film Companion piece on most streamed shows released in India, done in partnership with Ormax Recently, the media criticism platform Film Companion partnered with Ormax on a regular feature which...
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Are two heads better than one? Creative collaborations and job sharing in the...
Figure 1. Television writers’ rooms have several writers working together on the same projects. But what does more regular job sharing look like in other parts of the film and television industries,...
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Why Being A ‘Netflix Nation’ Matters – And To WhomGeorgia Aitaki / Karlstad...
Maestro in Blue’s entry in the Netflix catalogue – the first ever Greek TV series to be launched on Netflix. Christopher Papakaliatis is one of Greek television’s most notable creators and his latest...
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“SWELCE” and “HEAT WENTZ”: The Politics, Para-sociality, and Pairing of...
Figure 1: A Taylor and Travis shirt The worlds of sports and popular music often merge, from the music accompanying the ring entrance of boxers, to the politics of musicians performing at the National...
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