UT RTF at SCMS 2024 Conference
This year in Boston, RTF faculty, students, and alumni will convene to present their latest research, engage in critical dialogues on media studies topics, and network with regarded cinema and media scholars from around the world. Scroll down the page to see many of those scholars, who are listed below.
Party - Save the Date!
Please join the UT Austin Department of Radio-Television-Film on Friday, March 15, for our annual "Back to the Ranch" SCMS Reunion Party with graduate students, alumni, faculty and friends. Catch up and enjoy some light refreshments. We hope to see you there!
Hook 'em!
WHEN: Friday, March 15, at 9 pm
WHERE: Republic A (2nd floor)
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UT RTF scholars scheduled to participate in 2024 SCMS Conference
(partial list)
Faculty | Students | Alumni*
*If you're an alum presenting at this year's SCMS conference and are not listed below, please contact us!
FACULTY
Mirasol Enríquez
J20 – Uneasy Riders, Raging Bitches: Women’s Authorship and New Hollywood’s “Female-Driven” Productions, Models and Histories
“Latina Filmmakers Taking Big Steps through Small Screens and Streams”
Marina Fontolan
I10 – Playful Records: Video Game Histories (Chair)
Kathy Fuller-Seeley
I4 – Archives and Silent Films
“Rediscovering a proto-horror silent thriller: Francis Ford's The Craving (1919)”
Madhavi Mallapragada
G9 – Streaming Race: Asian Americans and the Politics of Representation in Contemporary Media Industries
“Indian Americans on TV: Mindy Kaling, Never Have I Ever and Emergent Discourses of ‘Diversity’ in US Media”
Jennifer McClearen
D10 – moving Bodies: Gender and Asian Identities
“Choreographing Resistance: Defying Racism and Convention through Martial Arts”
Curran Nault
O19 – Minor Sex Media
“Raspberry Reich in the Ruins: Or, an Alternative Route through the (Rear) Ends
Alisa Perren
I17 – Roundtable: The Future of Audience Analytics (Chair)
Suzanne Scott
F29 – Hollywood on Strike: Rethinking Crises in the Media Industries After the WGA and the SAG-AFTRA Walkouts
“Debates Around Fan Labor and Cosplay as “Scabbing”
Adrien Sebro
F12 – Hidden Histories of Stand-Up Comedy
“The Negotiated Crossover of Black Women in Comedy: Shirley Hemphill and Marsha Warfield”
STUDENTS
Fatima Bahja
C21 – The (A)Politics of Anti-Establishment: Alternative Community Discourse and Practice
“Selling authenticity: Lebanon’s Podcasts and the Production of ‘Ordinary’ Citizens”
Ryan Briggs
H6 – Revisiting and rethinking Cultural Producers and Content Creators
“Circulating Bamboozled: Repertory Cinema Culture and the Creation Value”
Laura Brown
H28 – Cultural Shifts in Mid-Century Broadcast Industries
“From Golden Age to Gold Rush: Exploring the Shifting Power Dynamics of the 1960s American Television Industry”
Kristina Bruening
N30 – Workshop: Cruel Productivity?: Navigating the Neoliberal Academy”
O18 – Building A Feminist Toolkit: Archives and Praxis
“Podcast Ethnography: A Feminist Methodological Approach to Creative Labor”
Isadora Dumont
P23 – Voice Pedagogy, and Activism
“Trans Divartivist as Voices of Healthcare Accessibility: Silicone and Glitter Diaries”
Luis Rivera-Figueroa
H20 – Complicating Borders, Creating Community: Methods in Media Industries Studies
“Bad Bunny on the Global Stage: Streaming Services, the Latin Music Industry, and Transnational Stardom”
Kathryn Hartzell
O1 – Cultivating Mass Global Viewership on Streaming Video Services
“Disney Star and the Imagined Indian Sports Fan”
Paxton Haven
O14 – Feeling (Un)Mediated: Streaming Liveness, and the Management of Experience
“Affects of Expansion: Ambivalent Community-Formation within Venture Capital’s Alternative Arts Funding”
Peter Arne Johnson
D5 – Exploring the Nexus of Technology, Finance, and Media Industries
“The Meeting of Californian Ideologies: Corporate Management in Hollywood & Silicon Valley”
Lily Kunda
M22 – BET and Beyond: Blackness and Cable Television
“Black Culture Brought to You by our Sponsors: Negotiating Social Justice and Corporate Advertising at the BET Awards”
Ann Laudick
G15 – Animation as Persuasion: Using Animated Films to Teach and Sell
“Closed Cel: Celluloid Animation and Intimacy in Media Production”
Alex Remington
K23 – New Directions in US TV Industry History and Genre
“Defining Classic Television Horror: The Munsters as Evolving Universal Strategy and Generic Memory”
Laurel Rogers
C17 – Global Television Industries (Chair)
Maggie Steinhauer
J19 – Place-ing Media: Atmospherics & Imaginaries
“Freak Conditions” and other Atmospheric Phenomena: Surveying Broadcastings Natural Boundaries. 1920-1927”
Dennis (Yifei) Sun
G6 – Creativity and Authorship in the Era of Artificial Intelligence
"Locating legal authorship in AI-generated images: what are the challenges, why do they matter for artistic creativity?"
Casey Walker
K23 – New Directions in US TV Industry History and Genre
“Shooting for the Box: The Film Noir Genre as Stylistic Shorthand for Early Television Police Procedurals”
Andy Fischer Wright
I2 – Spectators and Connectivity of Online Social Media
“Duly Noted: How push notifications are represented in media produced by Apple Inc.”
N30 – Workshop: Cruel Productivity?: Navigating the Neoliberal Academy”
ALUMNI
Drew Ayers
J24 – The Action Body in Popular Screen Culture
“Cultured Meat and the Animal Action Body”
Briana Barner
O25 – Round Table: Pondering Black Girlhood at the Intersection of Digital Media
“Black Girls’ Roles in Black Cultural Production”
Maria Boyd
N4 – Consumption, Confession, and Computer Nerds: Defining Taste, Excess, and Self on Screen
“‘Get High’ with Brandon Tartikoff: Inside NBC’s 1980s Anti-Drug PSAs”
Kathy Cacace
L24 – Friends, Mothers, Icons: Feminism in Media Culture
“The Cartoonish Style in Feminist Politics: Absurdist Female Buddy Comedies and the Production of Feminist Laughter”
Tupur Chatterjee
A9 – Localizing Transnational Media Distribution
“Taste, Value, and Creative Media Work in India’s Streaming Industries”
Micheal DeAngelis
D25 – (Im)possible Endings in Film
“Death, Closure, and Repetition in Epilogues of the Biopic”
Selena Dickey
N15 – Producing and Assessing TV
“Expanding the Network Backbone: Live Network Television and the Metroplex”
Courtney Brannon Donoghue
J20 – Uneasy Riders, Raging Bitches: Women’s Authorship and New Hollywood’s “Female-Driven” Productions, Models and Histories
“Little Women in a League of Their Own: Female-Driven, Mid-budget Movies in Early Conglomerate Hollywood”
Ken Feil
J22 - Rolling: Blackness, Media and Comedy
“Look at Me!” Jackies Back, Lifetime, and the Production of Black Camp”
Laura Felschow
B9 – At A Cinema Near You: Evolving Exhibition Practices and the Creation of New Audience Markets
“Community screenings & Box Office Inflation: The Ethics of Group Ticket Sales and Theater Buyouts”
Byron Fong
E17 – New topics in Video game Studies
“Text Boxes Black & Blue: How JRPG Battles Turned Menus into Play”
Hollis Griffin
D30 –The Programs Got Small: Questions of Scale in Queer TV Analysis
“Sexual Diversity and Streaming Television”
David Gurney
O2 – Haunted Remediations
“’Beware, These Creations May Haunt Your Dreams’”: The Emerging Aesthetics of ’Cursed AI’”
Katie Hoovestol
B16 – Datafied Identity: Genre, Advertising, and Algorithms
“‘The New CW for Gen-Z’: Shift in Teen Drama Genre as an Industrial Reconfiguration of Audience and Distribution”
Charlotte Howell
P9 – Contesting the World's Genre: Ideology Struggle and Mediated Soccer
“Carli Lloyd as a Conservative Emblem for Fox Sports’ 2023 Women’s World Cup Coverage”
Deborah Jaramillo
A13 – The Rules of the Game: Navigating the How and Why of Content Regulation
“Good Taste, the Death, and the Regulation of Atrocity on Television”
Jacqueline Johnson
I22 – Reckoning with Representation: Blackness, mediated Spaces and the Making of Self
“‘She Looked at Me and She Called Me Tracey’: Direct Address, Television and Authorship, and the Fictions of Disclosure”
Jessalynn Keller
O18 – Building A Feminist Toolkit: Archives and Praxis
“Making the Internet Feminist: Early Feminist Blogging As Intersectional Praxis
Kelly Kessler
H24 – Roundtable: Historiographies of US Television and its Publics
“Reactionary Public: The Parents Television Council”
Jinsook Kim
C10 – Representation and Reception in the Asian Diaspora
“What Does ‘K’ Mean to Korean Eldest Daughters? An Analysis of the K-Jangnyeo Narratives in YouTube Videos”
Benjamin Kruger-Robbins
F30 – Entertaining the Culture Wars: Reconfiguring the Conservatism in the Era of Peak TV “Riding the Range: hallmarks Gay Cowboys and Ride TVS Republican Makeover”
Peter Kunze
E12 – production Cultures of Comedy
“Appropriate Blackness: Standards & Practices, Creative Collaboration and In Living Color”
Amanda Landa
A7 – Doing the Work: Labor of and in Media Texts
“Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Feminine Fantasy in The Makanai: Cooking for Maiko House”
Christina Lane
A6 – Unglamorous Stardoms: Performances of Deglamorized & Maturing Femininity in Hollywood Cinema
Kayti Lausch
F30 – Entertaining the Culture Wars: Reconfiguring the Conservatism in the Era of Peak TV
“The War for Christmas: Great American Family and the Battle for Contemporary and Conservative Entertainment”
Christopher Lucas
H13 – Teaching Cinematography in Research-Intensive, Liberal arts, and Applied Public Universities
“’There's No Eye in Camera’: Developing and Interrogating Collaborative Skills in Cinematography Instruction”
Anne Major
F4 – Netflix Beyond Film and Television: Video Games, Virtual Reality, and Merchandising
“Playing it Safe: Netflix Games and Streaming’s Uncertain Futures”
Alfred Martin
J22 – Rolling: Blackness, Media and Comedy
“Look at Me!” Jackie’s Back, Lifetime, and the Production of Black Camp”
Nick Marx
F30 – Entertaining the Culture Wars: Reconfiguring the Conservatism in the Era of Peak TV
“Fox, Disney, and the Conservative Logic of Conglomeration in Financialized Hollywood”
Cynthia Meyers
O20 – Dangerous Broadcasting: Deceptive Advertising, Pirate Radio, and Exploding TV Sets (Chair)
“The FTC Is Watching You: Ad Industry Debates over Deceptive Television Commercials, 1950s-60s”
Colleen Montgomery
J23 – (Streaming) Technology, Media labor, and Re/ Stylizing History from Disney to Netflix
“Lady and the Lawsuit: Scarlett Johansson’s and Peggy Lee’s Labour Disputes with Disney”
Paul Monticone
G28 – New Views on Hollywood Luminaries
“The “Aristocracy of Business Civilization” and “Hollywood's Magical Mountain”: Fortune magazine and the Studio System”
Diane Negra
O26 – War-torn, Spooky, Anti-Semitic, Vampire-y, Authoritarian Europe: Fantasies of Europeanness in American Prestige TV (Respondent)
Kimberly Owczarski
M29 – Yellowstone's Messiness: Gender, Genre, Industry, Style
“I Will Tell My Stories My Way”: Taylor Sheridan, Authorship, and Branding in the Streaming Television Era”
Matthew Payne
G17 – The Unplayable Past: Video Games and the Struggle over Historical Authenticity
“The Oregon Trail and Branded Game Heritage”
Timothy Piper
A7 – Doing the Work: Labor of and in Media Texts (Chair)
“Hot Labor Summers of Yore: Basketball’s “Super Game” as Media” Labor History
Swapnil Rai
L3 – Fears and Desires in ‘Modis India’: On-Screen Mediation, Manipulation and Transgression
“Braving the Wild with Modi: Affect, Celebrity Ecology and Politics in India”
Nathan Rossi
P3 – Queer Intimacy & Romance
“Julio Torres’ Problemista, the “Visionary Mind”, and the Promise of Queer Salvadoran Representation”
Avi Santo
F4 – Netflix Beyond Film and Television: Video games, Virtual Reality, and Merchandising “Netflix and Shop: Rebranding Netflix as a Lifestyle Through Merchandise”
Bryan Sebok
K4 – Movement, Play, and Design
“Designing Cascadia 9.0: Fun, Function, and Fidelity in Serious Game Design”
Daelena Tinnin-Gadson
I22 – Reckoning with Representation: Blackness, Mediated Spaces and the Making of Self
“Down to the Pynk”, Haunting, Excess Flesh, and the Construction of Black Female Spectacle in Katori Hall's P-Valley”
Alyxandra Vesey
H26 – Powerful Instruments: Contemporary Tools for Women’s Musicianship
“I Hold You Like a Weapon: St. Vincent’s Virtuosic Self-Branding”
Latina Vidolova
O1 – Cultivating Mass Global Viewership on Streaming Video Services
“Animated Indigestion: Disney+ and (HBO) Max’s Blockages in Streaming Anime Pipeline”
Jing Wang
J6 – Global Documentary Studies
“Dis-intermediation in Question: Circulating Independent Chinese Documentary in the Age of Digital Distribution”
Kristen Warner
N25 – Roundtable
Exploring the Inner Sanctums of Black Women: aka Locating Mediated Moments That Are Just for US
“Magic Mike XXL’s Domina: Black Women’s Safe Space”
Lesley Willard
D5 – Exploring the Nexus of TechnologyMerchandise, Finance, and Media Industries
“Labor, layoffs, and Loot: The Human Cost of Cross-Industrial M&As in Video Games”
Lauren Wilks
I22 – Reckoning with Representation: Blackness, Mediated Spaces and the Making of Self
“Reclaiming Self-Definition Through Pause: Expanding the Postracial Resistance Toolbox through Rest and Refusal”
Hannah Wold
C21 – The (A)Politics of Anti-Establishment: Alternative Community Discourse and Practice
“The Localized Global: Mapping the Field of Regional American Film Nonprofits”
