Entertainment and Media Studies Archive

Booker T. Mattison was given the Defiance Award from the Morton Theatre Corporation.

Abstract: The 1980s featured a niche slate of syndicated shows prizing nostalgia, sex, consumerism, and camp–and often in children’s programming! First-run syndication in this era was rife with the queer […]

Abstract: When television programs are translated for global audiences, languages are changed, but so too are constructions of diverse identities. Characters who are Black, Indigenous, or people of color (BIPOC) […]

Abstract: With the Peabody Awards’ mission to honor “stories that matter,” producers often include evidence of cultural successes with audiences in submissions. Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood demonstrated the value of its […]

Abstract: At the same time the 1960s sitcom Bewitched aired in reruns next to drag queens on LOGOtv, a cable channel targeted to LGBTQ viewers, it also aired on the […]

From the 1910s through the end of the studio system in the 1940s studio heads and publicity departments crafted a system to manufacture and capitalize on the idea of charisma. […]

“Ungubani (Who Are You?)”, was an Official Selection in the Reel Sisters of the Diaspora Film Festival and Lecture series, the first Academy Award qualifying film festival for women of […]

Abstract: In 2020, widespread shutdowns as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted how we make, distribute, and watch media. Around the world businesses, cities, and borders closed in order […]

Abstract: Hollywood Shutdown examines the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on Hollywood beginning with the closure of movie theaters in China over Chinese New Year and ending with Mulan’s bumpy […]

Matthew Evans was one of 30 screenwriters invited to attend the 2020 CineStory Feature Retreat in Los Angeles, a four-day event of panels, roundtables, networking, and workshopping scripts alongside industry […]