Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Warner, Kristen J.

Titel

The Sustainability of Film and Media Studies

Ist Teil von

• Cinema journal, 2018-01, Vol.57 (2), p.143-147

Ort / Verlag

Lawrence: University of Texas Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

Quelle

EBSCOhost Film and Television Literature Index with Full Text

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Because cultural products are made "for everyone," film and television provoke inexhaustible popular writings based in interest but not specialization and curiosity but not context, so that such popular criticism presents its ideas as though without an origin or genealogy. [...]objects of study that for film and media studies scholars carry specific meanings, historical contexts, and specificities become the catalysts at best and fodder at worst for whatever can fit into someone's methodological black box. In 2016, I cowrote a piece in the Chronicle of Higher Education reminding nonacademic writers on popular culture that, if they decided to delve into deep histories of the film and media studies variety, we specialists in those areas were available to help contextualize and offer citations for reading to enhance and nuance those pieces.1 We stressed how unnecessary it was for writers to assume that their ideas on topics like race and television or reality television or taste cultures and television were original and new. The joy of the panel emerged from all of the differing approaches to understanding the visual album—from analyzing the live performances and its affective ties to Black audiences, to unpacking the formal patterns that marked the visual album as a music video, to a political economy study that complicated Beyoncé as a businesswoman, to a consideration of invisible collaborative labor regarding the album and film.