These Questions Need Answers: An essay on the Veronica Mars pilot

10Aug09

On my writing docket this summer were three essays that I’d committed to: a write-up of my SCMS presentation on Lostpedia (which will be coming out in Transformative Works & Cultures this fall), my piece on serial form and memory, and a long-delayed chapter for an anthology about the series Veronica Mars, edited by Sue [...]

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Tags: pilot, Veronica Mars

A favorite teaching video

17Mar09

I’ve got a bunch of blog posts spinning around in my head, but have been way too busy to post coherently. So for a quick hit, I wanted to share this video that ties back to my very first publication.* In 1995, I spent a summer as an intern in the moving image archives of [...]

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Communication Scholars Speak Out Against McCain Campaign

25Oct08

Just a quick link to this site, where over 100 faculty who teach communication and media studies have signed onto censure the deceptive, unethical, and racist discourse eminating from the McCain campaign in their desperate attempts to frame Obama as a dangerous “Other.” There are some links to frightening examples as well. If you’re a [...]

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Tags: campaign, election

Rescue Me as hyper-masculine soap opera

12Aug07

I’ve previously blogged about the relationship between soap operas & prime time narrative, participating in a conversation at Henry Jenkins’s blog and Sam Ford’s post on the Convergence Culture blog. Basically, I think the majority of serialized shows in prime time do not take much from soap operatic narrative strategies beyond the serial form–the pacing [...]

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Tags: Rescue Me

Seinfeld’s Lost Episode

03Dec06

I haven’t read anything of note about the Michael Richards’s on-stage breakdown that really adds to our understanding of the event or its context. But this video, by National Lampoon, is astounding. It places the stand-up rant & his apology within the context of Seinfeld and its own odd treatment of race. Enjoy! Update: I [...]

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