Mediascape - UCLA’s Journal of Cinema and Media Studies

Mediascape - UCLA’s Journal of Cinema and Media Studies

Fall ’09

Sex, Comedy and Controversy: Kiss Me, Stupid, What’s New, Pussycat?, New Hollywood, and Metropolitan Taste By Ken Feil

The Shaw-Tarantino Connection: Rolling Thunder Pictures and the Exploitation Aesthetics of Cool By Kenneth Chan

“A Hell of a Place”: The Everyday as Revisionist Content in Contemporary Westerns By Erica Stein

"This is what’s really cool about NFL Films" - An Interview with Margaret Ruffing Morris By Jennifer Porst

Reading ESPN Against Niches By Sudeep Sharma

Video Essays

Introduction By Jennifer Porst, Maya Montañez Smukler

White House, Black President By Clifford Hilo, Maya Montañez Smukler, Julia Wright

Layers of Paradox in F for Fake By Benjamin Sampson

HBO’s Cinematized Television By Erin Hill and Brian Hu

Towards a New Genre of Video Game Play By Drew Morton, David O’Grady and Jennifer Porst

Meta

Scholars on the subject of Genre in contemporary Cinema and Media Studies (in 10 parts) By Jason Mittell, Scott Ruston, Timothy Shary, and Vernon Shetley

Urban Script: Constructing the Site Through Narrative and Documentary Structures By Diane Davis-Sikora

Fall ’08

Letter from the Editors by Maya Montañez Smukler and Jennifer Porst

By, For, and About: The 'Real' Problem in the Feminist Film Movement by Shilyh Warren

Gray or Black? Howard Koch and the Elusive Architecture of the Hollywood "Lists" by Heather Heckman

Media Spectacle and the 2008 Presidential Election: Some Pre-Election Reflections by Douglas Kellner

Low and Behold: Using Fiction/Documentary Hybridity to See the Real Damage of Hurricane Katrina by David O'Grady

New Media as Election Strategy: How Obama and McCain Court the Net Generation  by Brett McCracken

Out of the Mouths of Babes: Animated Sitcoms and Political Incorrectness by Phil Scepanski

Bad Techno-Subjects: Griefing is Serious Business by Aubrey Anable

(meta) Scholars on the Subject of Media, Politics and the Academy (in 12 parts) By Allyson Nadia Field, Toby Miller, Bill Nichols, and Chuck Tryon

Spring ’08

Letter from the Editors by Brett McCracken and Jennifer Porst

Historiography of the World Part 1: The Jewish Body, Historical Crisis and The Comedic Farce by Joshua Louis Moss

Acting for the Cameras: Performance in the Multi-Camera Sitcom by Christine Becker

Male Masculinity as the Celebration of Failure: The Frat Pack, Women, and the Trauma of Victimization in the "Dude Flick" by Peter Alilunas

O Brother, O Sister by Jeffrey Sconce

And Now, Just the News: A Week in the Life of A Daily Show by Nick Marx

The Darjeeling Limited: Critiquing Orientalism on the Train to Nowhere by Nandana Bose

First-Person-Shooter-Suicide and Some Political Provocations of Emergent Gameplay by John Bridge

Machinimateur Wanted: The Professionalization of Machinima  by Robert Jones

Game Capture: The Machinima Archive and the History of Digital Games  by Henry Lowood

Notes on What One Can Learn About a Video Game Without Playing It  by Deanna Gross

Trauma Engines: Representing School Shootings Through Halo by Harrison Gish

Meta

A Manifesto For Critical Media by Eric Faden

The Documentary's New Politics by Eric Faden

"Here Comes the Sun?" Persephone's Winter and the Gendered Construction of Myth by Phil Wagner

Some Analog Lines by David Lowery

World of Wonder: An Authorized Documentary of a Production Subculture by Adam Fish

Notes Towards a Project on Citizen Kane by Paul Malcolm

Spring ’07

Slights and Slants: Visual Representation in Carnivale by Moe Folk

Negotiating Global/Local Identities: Jia Zhang-ke's The World by Clifford Hilo

The Game Mechanics of Enlightenment - An Interview With Tracy Fullerton by Jonathan Cohn

Is that a Kevin Smith in Your Pocket? Notes on a (Possibly) Emerging Platform by Ethan Tussey

Obscure Objects of Media Studies: Echo, Hotbird and Ikonos by Lisa Parks

A Curious Circumstance of the iPod Shuffle by Bill Bahng Boyer

The Promise: Re-writing Romantic Archetypes by Ya-chen Chen

In Response to the AFI: Top 100 American Films by Women Directors by Erin Hill and Brian Hu

Spring ’06

"This is our Holocaust": Deepa Mehta's Earth and the Question of Partition Trauma by Dorothy Barenscott

Eija-Liisa Ahtila's Affective Images in The House by Tarja Laine

Storied Stores: Visual Culture and a People's History of the Archive by Zoe Trodd

Women's History Trilogy (Kim Soyoung, 2000-2004) by Serena Formica

Closed Borders and Open Secrets: Regional Lockout, the Film Industry, and Code-Free DVD Players  by Brian Hu

Fostering International Cinema: The Rotterdam Film Festival, CineMart, and the Hubert Bals Fund by Daniel Steinhart

Spring ’05

Screen Angst: New Media Orientations and Youthfulness by Stephen Michael Charbonneau

Inch'Allah Dimanche vs. Lila dit Ca: Transnational Feminism Counters the Streamlining of Accented Cinema by Zinaid Meeran

Virtuality and Control In Spielberg's Minority Report by Jason Skonieczny

Algunos Aspectos del Filmoteca de la UNAM by Noah Zweig

Taking Film Studies to the Streets (and Back Again): On the Necessity of Criticism by Brian Hu

Hollywood on the Head of a Pin: Montage and Marketing at the Oscars by Lisa Kernan

Save the Green Planet!, Memories of Murder, and the 80s in Cinema by Byun Sungchan, translated by Hyongshin Kim

Accessing Wal-Mart on the Internet: Diegetic Layers and Alternative Distribution and Exhibition Practices by Rowena S. Aquino

Notes from a Videogame Breakdown by Savitri Young

Artificial Life in Real Time by Bernardo Rondeau

Meta

Notes on the "Historical Turn" and the Uses of Theory by Eric Vanstrom

Your History Acts as Your Gravity: On Personal History, Passion, and Media Studies by Laurel Westrup

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