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“More Cowbell”: My Avengers Remix Video
You know what this toolkit needs? More explosions. As I noted in my prior post about Disney/Marvel’s partnership with YouTube to facilitate the creation of Avengers remix videos, it appears the...
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Gender/Genre (or why I’m about to Hulk out on Moviefone)
We have a new, vile example of the marginalization of fangirls (or the general treatment of women as a surplus audience), courtesy of Moviefone. I have written about the “Princess Naked” and/or “Dr....
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CFP for SCMS 2013 Panel: Women in/and Comic Book Culture
Hey aca-friends, are you or is someone you know interested in being part of a SCMS panel on Women in/and Comic Book Culture? If so, read on… Reading the recent (and excellent, I might add) In Focus...
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Considering the “bad object”: fandom and/as social justice
Fellow fans and aca-friends, lend me your ears and send me your comments! This weekend, I’m headed to Geek Girl Con to participate in a roundtable with Anita Sarkeesian and Alejandra Espino titled...
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#sixseasonsandamovie (and a documentary)
A few months ago, I was contacted by Andulka Wilkes and Evan Koehne about appearing in a documentary about a (fan) art show celebrating NBC’s cult comedy Community. I am thrilled to be a part of this...
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ARG Course: Professor, Puppet Master, or Project Manager?
I’m really excited to launch my spring course at Occidental College next week, as it represents a series of firsts: my first opportunity to teach within Oxy’s Media Studies department, the department’s...
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Distanced Learning: SCMS as MOOC (massively open online conference)?
The Society for Cinema and Media Studies’ annual conference is an academic ritual, a rite of passage, a key site of professional advancement, and the social event of the season if you’re a media...
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Guest Post: My Gigantic Issue With the Veronica Mars Kickstarter
Below, you’ll find a guest post from Luke Pebler. He’s blogged here before about the “douchegeek hegemony” ushered in when TechTV was revamped to become G4. Per usual, my response to what is...
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More on Veronica Mars’“fan-ancing” and Netflix’s temporal approach to TV
This week, I was thrilled to participate in a conversation on Henry Jenkins’ blog about the Veronica Mars Kickstarter Campaign, and various other television revivals, like the upcoming season of...
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On Defrosting: What Marvel’s Thor Announcement Means for Women in Comics Culture
In 2013, I published an article titled “Fangirls in Refrigerators: The Politics of (In)Visibility in Comic Book Culture,” detailing the erasure of women from scholarly work on comic book culture, and...
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