Congratulations! It’s a Beautiful Baby Blog!
Some people have their first child and then decide “This is quite enough excitement for me.” Other people think “I want five of these!” It’s the same with long-running projects […]
Teaching this Old Horse some New Teaching Tricks
This semester I have experimented a lot with my teaching and classroom policies. While implementing new policies certainly adds more work (and frustration) to an already busy semester, my hope […]
“To Dance Again!”: Affect, Genre, and the HARRY POTTER Franchise
This week I attended the annual Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference in Chicago. I decided to share the paper I presented there as part of the panel, “Affect […]
Smash Talkin: A Roundtable on the SMASH Season 2 Premiere
This roundtable, focusing on the season 2 premiere of NBC’s Smash (which aired on February 5th), arose in response to a recent article “How “Smash” Became TV’s Biggest Train Wreck” by Kate […]
MTV Reality Programming & the Labor of Identity Construction
Note to the reader: Below is a work in progress. I am sharing it here in the hopes of generating discussion and recommendations for further reading and research. American children […]
The Most Objective “Best of 2012″ List Ever, Part III: Social Media
Earlier this week I posted “Part I: Television” and “Part II: Memes” of “The Most Objective ‘Best of 2012′ List Ever.” There doesn’t seem to be much enthusiasm for these […]
The Most Objective “Best of 2012″ List Ever, Part II: Memes
Over the weekend I posted Part I of ”The Most Objective ‘Best of 2012′ List Ever,” focusing on why I think Wilfred is the best, or at least the most […]
