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Thomas Goodchild, "From Displacement to Intersubjectivity: A Phenomenology of Sound in Classic Film Noir" (2024)

Michael B. Raines, "The Rust Belt Gothic: Charting the Affective Politics of Deindustrialization and the Emergence of a Great Lakes Horror Genre in Film" (2024)

Melanie C. Falconer, "Slot Machine Addiction: The Untold Story of Contradictions Between Self and America's Neoliberal Risk Society" (2024)

Everett Barnett, "Zeros and Ones: Digital Video Aesthetics and Geopolitical Economy in Blackhat" (2024)

Vahid Valikhani, "Unveiling Estrangement: The Ambivalence of Iranian Cultural Identity in Documentary Films" (2024)

Meredith Donovan, "The Boundaries of Melodramatic Film Music: Redefining Home through the Score of Douglas Sirk's All That Heaven Allows" (2024)

Aditya Sudhakaran, "Motherhood in the Mutiverse: Melodrama and Asian American Identity in Everything, Everywhere, All at Once" (2023)

Blythe Broecker Creelan, "The 'Charm and Distinction' of Proverbs: The Duality of the Gem Analogy in Erasmus's Adagia" (2023)

Breanna Lee Hansen, "Selective Framing and Narrative as Anthropocentric Agents in Yellowstone: America's Eden" (2023)

Annabelle G. Naudin, "Losing the Streaming Wars: What Netflix loses in Television Narrative and Participatory Fan Cultures" (2023)

Susanna A. Perez-Field, "Reading Rent: Interracial Relationships and Racial Hierarchies" (2023)

Enya C. Silva, "From Counter-Strike to Counterterrorism: How the Cheater Reconfigures Our Understanding of Asymmetric Warfare" (2023)

Mark Fredricks, "Harmony of Difference: Theorizing Rashid Johnson's New Universalism in the Grids of Antoine's Organ" (2022)

Emily M. Gregoire, "Pronk Poppenhuis: Establishing and Destabilizing Agency Among Seventeenth-Century Burgher Wives in the Dutch Republic" (2022)

Brooke M. Weltch, "The Hybridization of Home: Establishing Place Between the Garrison and the Wilderness in Mary Rowlandson's (1682) Captivity Narrative" (2022)

Thomas G. Chaplin, "Ambient Athleticism: Politicizing Akira's Accelerationist Olympiad" (2022)

Jacqueline D. Merveille, "Queering the Weeki Wachee Mermaid and Its Renewed Aesthetic Value" (2022)

William S. Beaman, "Digital Realness: Queer Identity in ContraPoints," (2022)

Catherine Brown, "Complex Identities: Putting Casey Platt's Fiction in a Trans and Religious Studies Context" (2022)

Michael Lee Taber, "Visions of Entanglement and Escape: In-Visible Voice in the Films of Terrence Malick and George Lucas" (2022)

Christopher Costabile, 鈥淭he Value of Sleep: Aura and Aesthetics of Cohabitation in Juha Lilja鈥檚 Digital Revision of Warhol鈥� (2021)

Richard Dyer, 鈥淭hreatened by the Outback: Landscape and Ecology in the Australian New Wave鈥� (2021)

Haiyu Wang, 鈥淔our Hollywood Adaptations of Little Women: Identifying Female Subjectivity in Characters, Plots, and Authorship鈥� (2021)

Dairine Hoban, "Bad Bunny's Purplewashing as Gender Violence in Reggaeton: A Feminist Analysis of SOLO DE MI and YO PERRO SOLA" (2021)

Huadong Fan, "Restarting Plural Modernity: The Lyrical Tradition of the Hometown in Kaili Blues" (2021)

Alan E. Blanchard, "Montage Music Videos: Racial Utopianism vs. Abstract Cowboys and the Question of Cultural Montage" (2021)

Eric Bruce, 鈥淟ost Without a Connection: Analyzing Netflix鈥檚 Maniac in the Digital Streaming Age鈥� (2020)

Mariana Delgado, 鈥淩edefining Representations of Trauma & Modes of Witnessing in Damon Lindelof鈥檚 The Leftovers鈥� (2020)

Ben Muntananuchat, 鈥淩ecurring Scream: Trauma in Wes Craven鈥檚 Slasher鈥� (2020)

Justin Nguyen, 鈥淚鈥檓 Going Digital: Potentials for Online Communities through Internet Remix鈥� (2020)

Mykhailo Pylynskyi, 鈥淭he Concept of Freedom in American Literature at the Dawn of the Nation鈥� (2020)

Chandler Reeder, 鈥淗ow Audiovisual Composition Reveals Gendered Limitations and Possibilities in Lady Bird in the Wake of #MeToo鈥� (2020)

Ashley Steinbach, 鈥淗orror鈥檚 Aesthetic Exchange: Immersion, Abstraction and Annihilation鈥� (2020)

Joshua Zintel, 鈥淩oots of Coded Metaphor in John Dee鈥檚 Monas Hieroglyphica鈥� (2020)

Mary Cook, 鈥淏laxploitation鈥檚 Revolutionary Sexuality: Rethinking Images of Male Hypersexuality in Sweetback & Shaft鈥� (2019)

Rachel Cox, 鈥淧lasticity in Animated Children鈥檚 Cartoons: The Neoliberal Transforming Bodies and Static Worlds of OK KO and Gumball鈥� (2019)

Richard Farrell, 鈥淏altimore Mobility, The Wire, Local Documentary, and the Politics of Distance鈥� (2019)

Aryn Kelly, 鈥淢obilizing Images of Black Pain and Death through Digital Media: Visual Claims to Collective Identity after 鈥業 Can鈥檛 Breathe鈥欌�� (2019)

Morgan Macey, 鈥淎daptations of Ovid鈥檚 Metamorphoses in Late Medieval France: Material and Moral Recontextualization in the Tapestry of Narcissus at the Fountain鈥� (2019)

Elizabeth Rossbach, 鈥淎n Ecology of Care: Training in Dependence and Caretaking in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt鈥� (2019)

Max Seijo, 鈥淎nti-Fascist Aesthetics from Weimar to MoMA: Siegfried Kracauer & the Promise of Abstraction for Critical Theory鈥� (2019)

Sarah Conner, 鈥淧oetics of Sixteenth-Century Widowhood: Vittoria Colonna鈥檚 Use of Gender and Grief as a Means of Social and Spirtual Transcendence鈥� (2018)

Adam Davidson, "Performing 'Hurt' : Aging, Disability, and Popular Music as Mediated Product and Lived-Experience in Johnny Cash's Final Recordings" (2018)

Jennifer Dolan, 鈥淭he Promised Body: Diet Culture, the Fat Subject, and Ambivalence as Resistance鈥� (2018)

Kevin McKenna, "The Revival Western and Dead Man: Challenging Neoliberal Violences" (2018)

Matthew Morales, 鈥淐oncerning Virtual Reality and Corporealized Media: Exploring Video Game Aesthetics and Phenomenology鈥� (2018)

Kelley O鈥橞rien, "'He Didn't Mean It': What Kubrick's The Shining Can Teach Us About Domestic Violence" (2018)

Nicholas Orlando, "Failing to Move Forward: Journalism, Media, and Affect in David Fincher's Zodiac" (2018)

Zhanwen Peng, "Eliminating the Uncertainty of Hong Kong in 1990s: Tsui Hark鈥檚 Once Upon a Time in China (1, 2, 3)" (2018)

Valerie Simuro, 鈥淎 Woman鈥檚 Place in Jazz in the 21st Century鈥� (2018)

Morgan Wallace, "Cool Moms & Cool Media: Returning to Poltergeist through Stranger Things" (2018)

Rachel Ekblad, "The Dislocated Spectator's Relationship to Enchanted Objects in Early Film and Modernist Poetry" (2017)

Huai-Hsuan Huang, "Distinguishing Patterns of Utopia and Dystopia, East and West" (2017)

Rachel Christine Ekblad, "The Dislocated Spectator's Relationship to Enchanted Objects in Early Film and Modernist Poetry" (2017)

Jonathan Hendricks, "Playing-With the World: Toy Story's Aesthetics and Metaphysics of Play" (2017)

Christopher David Adkins, "Get Ye A Copper Kettle: Appalachia, Moonshine, and a Postcolonial World" (2017)

Lisa Morgan Thieryung, "The Palazzo Medici and its Polyvalent Message: Cosimo de Medici Navigates the Shifting Meaning of Pride" (2017)

Morgan J. Jennings, " 'There's a real hole here': Female Masochism and Spectatorship in Michael Haneke's La Pianiste" (2017)

Brett Michael Phillips, " 'You want it all to happen now!': The Jinx, The Imposter, and Re-enacting the Digital Thriller in True Crime Documentaries" (2017)

Brooks Benadum, 鈥淭he Apocalypse Narrative and the Internet: Divided Relationships in New Natures鈥� (2016)

Jacob Boccio, 鈥淒igital Integration鈥� (2016)

Brandy Kinkade, 鈥淎 Tourist Performance: Redefining the Tourist Attraction鈥� (2016)

Michael McDowell, 鈥淗eavy South: Identity, Performance, and Heavy Music in the Southern Metal Scene鈥� (2016)

Michael Rosen, 鈥淭he Apatow Aesthetic: Exploring New Temporalities of Human Development in 21st-Century Network Society鈥� (2016)

Eric Ross, 鈥淐onstructing the West: 鈥楾he Hired Hand鈥� and 鈥楳cCabe & Mrs. Miller鈥� and the Challenge of Public Space鈥� (2016)

Max Siyuan, 鈥淭o Utopianize the Mundane: Sound and Image in Country Musicals鈥� (2016)

Tomaro Taylor, 鈥淟ongshoremen鈥檚 Negotiation of Masculinity and the Middle Class in 1950s Popular Culture鈥� (2016)