culturalstudies

Chris Robé on reactionary populism, progressive Hollywood, Eisenstein, anarchism, and surveillance

Chris Robé on reactionary populism, progressive Hollywood, Eisenstein, anarchism, surveillance, and social movements

You can read about Chris’ work here:

https://www.fau.edu/artsandletters/scms/faculty/robe/

https://blog.pmpress.org/authors-artists-comrades/chris-robe/

 

William Mazzarella on magic, disenchantment, charisma, censorship, liberalism, and populism

William Mazzarella on advertising, magic, disenchantment, charisma, affect, media, religion, Indian film censorship, mass society, liberalism, and populism

You can read about William’s work here:

https://anthropology.uchicago.edu/directory/Willliam-T-S-Mazzarella

LS Kim on Asian Americans, media culture, Maid for Television, and racial ceilings in Hollywood

LS Kim on Asian Americans in media culture, stereotypes, Maid for Television, whiteness, cross-racial coalitions, and ceilings for Asian Americans in Hollywood

You can read about her work here:

https://film.ucsc.edu/faculty/ls_kim

https://www.lskim.com/

 

 

Katie Johnston on surveillance, Profiles and Plotlines, New Mexico, Amazon, and big data as story

Katherine Johnston on surveillance, Profiles and Plotlines, New Mexico, Serena Williams, Amazon, the International Spy Museum, and big data as storytelling

You can read about Katherine’s work and interests here:

https://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/english/people/JohnstonK#Biography

https://uipress.uiowa.edu/books/profiles-and-plotlines

https://www.spymuseum.org/

 

Claire Parkinson on dogs, activism, critical animal studies, media coverage, and anthropomorphism

Claire Parkinson on the Dangerous Dogs Act, gender, class, activism, critical animal studies, media coverage, and anthropomorphism

You can read about Claire here:

https://www.edgehill.ac.uk/person/claire-parkinson/staff/

https://sites.edgehill.ac.uk/cfhas/

 

William Robinson on the transnational capitalist class, neoliberalism, imperialism, and future crises

William Robinson on global capitalism, the transnational capitalist class, Latin America, neoliberalism, European versus US and Chinese imperialism, the global police state, absence of an organized global left, journalism, and future crises

You can read about William’s work here:

https://robinson.faculty.soc.ucsb.edu/

https://www.facebook.com/WilliamIRobinsonSociologist/

 

Arvind Rajagopal on engineering, sociology, media studies, religion, India, Nehruvianism, and Hindutva

Arvind Rajagopal on engineering, sociology, media studies, the history of studying communication, NWICO, religion, India, Nehruvianism, and Hindutva

https://nyu.academia.edu/ArvindRajagopal

 

Melissa Wilde on religion, eugenics, suffrage, inequality, class, race, birth control, and Vatican II

Melissa Wilde on religion, Hitler, eugenics, suffrage, evolution, inequality, class, race, birth control, and Vatican II

You can read about Melissa’s work here:

https://sociology.sas.upenn.edu/people/melissa-wilde

https://theconversation.com/profiles/melissa-j-wilde-546285

 

Tom Schatz on classical and New Hollywood, conglomeration, blockbuster franchises, and streaming

Tom Schatz on classical Hollywood, New Hollywood, conglomerate Hollywood, independents, blockbuster franchises, and streaming

You can read about Tom’s work here:

https://rtf.utexas.edu/faculty/tom-schatz

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/netflix-disney-media-consolidation/

 

Siobhan Angus on tar sands, class, minerals, Marx, photography, organizing—and fertilizer

Siobhan Angus on tar sands, renewables, Canadian identity, class, minerals, Marx, photography, organizing—and fertilizer

You can read more about Siobhan here:

https://www.siobhanangus.com/