Media Industries Archive
Comfort Creators: Gender, Parasocial Relationships, and Emotional Labor
Jessica Maddox, “Comfort Creators: Gender, Parasocial Relationships, and Emotional Labor.” Paper accepted to the Popular Culture Association annual conference, Atlanta, Georgia, April 2026. Abstract: Comfort media has emerged as a […]
Disrupting the Netflix hegemony in Nollywood: The case of A Tribe Called Judah
Wunpini Fatimata Mohammed and Charity Markus Fawe (Ph.D. student), “Disrupting the Netflix hegemony in Nollywood: The case of A Tribe Called Judah,” Communication, Culture and Critique, November 2025. https://doi.org/10.1093/ccc/tcaf039. Abstract: […]
Below-the-Line Labor and Infrastructure in Hollywood
From the ragtag crews of 1910s productions to the organized backlots of Classical Hollywood to the runaway productions of the last fifty years, Hollywood has employed a wide array of […]