Contributors

Evelyn Alsultany is Associate Professor in the Department of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. She is the author of Arabs and Muslims in the Media: Race and Representation after 9/11. She is co-editor with Rabab Abdulhadi and Nadine Naber of Arab and Arab American Feminisms: Gender, Violence, and Belonging and with Ella Shohat of Between the Middle East and the Americas: The Cultural Politics of Diaspora. She is also guest curator of the Arab American National Museum’s online exhibit, “Reclaiming Identity: Dismantling Arab Stereotypes” (www.arabstereotypes.org).

Ben Aslinger is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Media Studies at Bentley University. He is the co-editor with Nina B. Huntemann of Gaming Globally: Production, Play, and Place, and with Germaine R. Halegoua of Locating Emerging Media. He is currently working on an edited collection on queer media industries with Julia Himberg.

Miranda J. Banks is Associate Professor of Film, TV, and Media Studies at Loyola Marymount University and currently serves on the board of directors of the Society of Cinema and Media Studies. She is the author of The Writers: A History of American Screenwriters and Their Guild and co-editor with Vicki Mayer and John Thornton Caldwell of Production Studies: Cultural Studies of Media Industries and with Bridget Conor and Vicki Mayer of Production Studies: The Sequel!.

Ron Becker is Professor of Media and Culture at Miami University of Ohio. He is the author of Gay TV and Straight America. His work has also appeared in The Television Studies Reader; Queer TV: Theories, Histories, Politics; The Great American Makeover: Television, History and Nation; The Historical Journal of Radio, Film, and Television; and Television and New Media.

Mary Beltrán is Associate Professor and Associate Chair in the Department of Radio-Television-Film and an affiliate of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Latina/o Stars in U.S. Eyes and co-editor with Camilla Fojas of Mixed Race Hollywood. She is currently working on a new book, Latino, Latina, and Latinx Television: Navigations of U.S. Storytelling.

Jeremy G. Butler is Professor of Creative Media at the University of Alabama. He wrote the textbook Television: Visual Storytelling and Screen Cultures. His other book projects include Television Style and The Sitcom. He has published articles on Mad Men, ER, Roseanne, Miami Vice, Imitation of Life, soap opera, the sitcom, and other topics in journals such as Cinema Journal, Journal of Film and Video, and Screen.

Aymar Jean Christian is Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Northwestern University. His first book, Open TV: Innovation Beyond Hollywood and the Rise of Web Television argues the web brought innovation to television by opening development to independent producers. His work has been published in numerous academic journals, including The International Journal of Communication, Television and New Media, Cinema Journal, Continuum, and Transformative Works and Cultures.

Melissa A. Click is Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at Gonzaga University. Her work on fans, audiences, and popular culture has been published in Television and New Media, the International Journal of Communication Studies, Popular Communication, and Popular Music and Society. She is editor of Anti-Fandom: Dislike and Hate in the Digital Age and the co-editor of The Routledge Companion to Media Fandom and Bitten by Twilight.

Amber Day is Professor of Media and Performance Studies in the English and Cultural Studies Department at Bryant University. She is the author of Satire and Dissent: Interventions in Contemporary Political Debate and the editor of DIY Utopia: Cultural Imagination and the Remaking of the Possible. Her research focuses broadly on the intersections of art and political speech, including satire and irony, political performance and activism, and public debate.

Abigail De Kosnik is Associate Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, in the Berkeley Center for New Media (BCNM) and the Department of Theater, Dance and Performance Studies, and is the Director of BCNM. She is the author of Rogue Archives: Digital Cultural Memory and Media Fandom and co-editor with Keith Feldman of #identity: Hashtagging Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Nation. She has published articles on media fandom, popular digital culture, and performance studies in Cinema Journal, The International Journal of Communication, Modern Drama, Transformative Works and Cultures, Verge: Studies in Global Asias, Performance Research, and elsewhere. De Kosnik is Filipina American.

Amanda Nell Edgar is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication and Film at the University of Memphis. She studies the politics of sound in popular culture. She is the author of Culturally Speaking: The Rhetoric of Voice and Identity in a Mediated Culture and co-author with Andre E. Johnson of The Struggle Over Black Lives Matter and All Lives Matter.

Racquel Gates is Associate Professor at the College of Staten Island, CUNY. Her research focuses on blackness and popular culture, with special attention to discourses of taste and quality. She is the author of Double Negative: The Black Image and Popular Culture and has written numerous essays on film and media, some of which appear in Film Quarterly, Television and New Media, the New York Times, and the Los Angeles Review of Books.

Jonathan Gray is the Hamel Family Distinguished Chair of Communication Arts and Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at University of Wisconsin–Madison. He is author or co-editor of numerous books, including Television Entertainment, Television Studies (with Amanda D. Lotz), and Keywords for Media Studies. He is also Chief Editor of International Journal of Cultural Studies.

Hunter Hargraves is Assistant Professor in the Department of Cinema and Television Arts at California State University, Fullerton. He is the author of the forthcoming book Uncomfortable Television, and his research on contemporary American television has appeared in Cinema Journal, Television and New Media, Celebrity Studies, Camera Obscura, and A Companion to Reality Television.

Heather Hendershot is Professor of Film and Media at MIT. She is the editor of Nickelodeon Nation: The History, Politics, and Economics of America’s Only TV Channel for Kids and the author of Saturday Morning Censors: Television Regulation before the V-Chip, Shaking the World for Jesus: Media and Conservative Evangelical Culture, What’s Fair on the Air? Cold War Right-Wing Broadcasting and the Public Interest, and Open to Debate: How William F. Buckley Put Liberal America on the Firing Line.

Holly Willson Holladay is Assistant Professor in the Department of Media, Journalism and Film at Missouri State University. Her research focuses on the relationship between media texts, media audiences, and negotiations of identity (e.g., gender, class, race, and sexuality). Her work has been published in Television and New Media, Southern Communication Journal, The Journal of Popular Culture, and Participations: International Journal of Audience Research, and a number of edited collections.

Anikó Imre is Professor of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Southern California. She works in comparative media studies with a special focus on European television and film, (post-)socialism, gender, sexuality, and race. Her most recent book is TV Socialism.

Henry Jenkins is the Provost’s Professor of Communication, Journalism, Cinematic Arts and Education at the University of Southern California. His most recent books include By Any Media Necessary: The New Youth Activism, Popular Culture and the Civic Imagination: Case Studies of Creative Social Change, and Comics and Stuff. He blogs at henryjenkins.org and hosts the How Do You Like It So Far? podcast.

Derek Johnson is Professor of Media and Cultural Studies in the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He is the author of Transgenerational Media Industries: Adults, Children, and the Reproduction of Culture and Media Franchising: Creative License and Collaboration in the Culture Industries, the editor of From Networks to Netflix: A Guide to Changing Channels, and co-editor of Point of Sale: Analyzing Media Retail, A Companion to Media Authorship, and Making Media Work: Cultures of Management in the Entertainment Industries.

Jeffrey P. Jones is Executive Director of the George Foster Peabody Awards, Director of the Peabody Media Center, and Lambdin Kay Chair for the Peabodys at the University of Georgia. He is the author and editor of six books, including Entertaining Politics: Satiric Television and Civic Engagement; Satire TV: Politics and Comedy in the Post-Network Era; and Television, the Peabody Archives, and Cultural Memory. His research focuses on popular politics, or the ways in which politics are presented and engaged through popular culture.

Mary Celeste Kearney is Director of Gender Studies and Associate Professor of Film, Television, and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame. She is author of Girls Make Media and Gender and Rock, editor of The Gender and Media Reader and Mediated Girlhoods: New Explorations of Girls’ Media Culture, and co-editor with Morgan Blue of Mediated Girlhoods’ second volume and with Michael Kackman of The Craft of Criticism: Critical Media Studies in Practice.

Amanda Keeler is Assistant Professor of Digital Media in the Diederich College of Communication at Marquette University, where she teaches courses in media aesthetics, radio and television history, and scriptwriting. She has published several essays on television and radio, including work on Gilmore Girls, the ABC Afterschool Specials, The Walking Dead, and Dimension X. She is the Network Co-Director for the Library of Congress Radio Preservation Task Force.

Amanda Ann Klein is Associate Professor of Film Studies in the English Department at East Carolina University. She is the author of American Film Cycles: Reframing Genres, Screening Social Problems, and Defining Subcultures and co-editor with R. Barton Palmer of Multiplicities: Cycles, Sequels, Remakes and Reboots in Film and Television. She is currently working on a new book: Millennials Killed the Video Star, a study of MTV’s reality programming.

Suzanne Leonard is Professor of English and Director of the Graduate Program in Gender/Cultural Studies at Simmons University in Boston. She is the author of Wife, Inc.: The Business of Marriage in the Twenty-First Century, Fatal Attraction, and co-editor with Yvonne Tasker of Fifty Hollywood Directors.

Elana Levine is Professor of Media, Cinema, and Digital Studies in the Department of English at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. She is the author of Her Stories: Daytime Soap Opera and US Television History, co-author with Michael Z. Newman of Legitimating Television: Media Convergence and Cultural Status, author of Wallowing in Sex: The New Sexual Culture of 1970s American Television, editor of Cupcakes, Pinterest, and Ladyporn: Feminized Popular Culture in the Early 21st Century, and co-editor with Lisa Parks of Undead TV: Essays on Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Amanda D. Lotz is Professor of Media Studies at the Digital Media Research Centre at Queensland University of Technology. She is the author, co-author, or editor of nine books that explore television and media industries including We Now Disrupt This Broadcast: How Cable Transformed Television and the Internet Revolutionized It All, The Television Will Be Revolutionized, and Television Studies, with Jonathan Gray.

Myles McNutt is Assistant Professor of Communication and Theatre Arts at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, where he researches and teaches on the media industries. In addition to published work in Television and New Media, Media Industries Journal, and The Velvet Light Trap, he also serves as a contributor for The A.V. Club—where he reviewed Gilmore Girls: A Day in the Life in 2016—and writes media analysis on his personal blog, Cultural Learnings.

Ritesh Mehta works in film and TV development in Los Angeles. He has extensive experience programming for film festivals such as AFI Fest, Outfest, and the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles, and as a Reader for the Sundance, Fox and Disney television writers labs focusing on diversity and inclusion. His research has been published in Poetics, Cognition, and Transformative Works and Cultures; he has co-authored the digital book Flows of Reading: Engaging with Texts; and he is a regular contributor to MovieMaker Magazine. Mehta received his PhD in communication from the Annenberg School at the University of Southern California.

Taylor Cole Miller is Academic Director of the Peabody Media Center and Assistant Professor of Entertainment and Media Studies at the University of Georgia. In addition to published pieces in several anthologies, journals, and popular press, he is currently working on two book projects: one on the history and queer potential of television syndication and the other a co-authored book on The Golden Girls and fandom.

David Miranda Hardy is Assistant Professor of Film and Media Culture at Middlebury College, where he teaches film production and screenwriting. He is the sound designer for more than sixty feature films, most recently Pablo Larrain’s Oscar-nominated Jackie, and has written and directed numerous short films. He is Head of Content Development for Filmo Estudios/Filmosonido, his production company in Chile. His first television series, Bala Loca, is distributed internationally on Netflix and was nominated for a Peabody and a Platino Award.

Jason Mittell is Professor of Film and Media Culture and American Studies at Middlebury College. He is the author of Genre and Television: From Cop Shows to Cartoons in American Culture, Television and American Culture, Complex Television: The Poetics of Contemporary Television Storytelling, The Videographic Essay: Criticism in Sound and Image (with Christian Keathley and Catherine Grant), and Narrative Theory and Adaptation. He is project manager for [in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film and Moving Image Studies, co-director of the NEH-supported workshop series Scholarship in Sound and Image, and author of numerous video essays.

Michael Z. Newman is Professor of Media, Cinema, and Digital Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee in the Department of English. He is the author of Indie: An American Film Culture, Video Revolutions: On the History of a Medium, Atari Age: The Emergence of Video Games in America, and the co-author with Elana Levine of Legitimating Television: Media Convergence and Cultural Status.

Sean O’Sullivan is Associate Professor of English at The Ohio State University. He is the author of the book Mike Leigh and has written numerous articles on television storytelling, including such topics as Deadwood and Charles Dickens; Krzysztof Kieslowski’s The Decalogue; Dennis Potter’s The Singing Detective; third seasons; fifth episodes; and the six central elements of serial narrative.

Laurie Ouellette is Professor of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature and Communication Studies at the University of Minnesota. She has written about television and other topics for Cultural Studies, Television and New Media, Cinema Journal, European Journal of Cultural Studies, and other journals. Her most recent books include Lifestyle TV and the co-edited volume with Jonathan Gray Keywords for Media Studies.

Kevin Sandler is Associate Professor in the Film and Media Studies Program at Arizona State University, where he specializes in the contemporary U.S. media business, with a particular focus on censorship and animation. He is the author of The Naked Truth: Why Hollywood Doesn’t Make X-Rated Movies, the co-editor with Gaylyn Studlar of Titanic: Anatomy of a Blockbuster, and editor of Reading the Rabbit: Explorations in Warner Bros. Animation. His upcoming book is Scooby-Doo.

Philip Scepanski is Assistant Professor of Film and Television at Marist College whose research focuses on television history, cultural theory, comedy, and trauma. His book project, “Tragedy Plus Time: National Trauma and Television Comedy,” explores the ways in which American television comedy responds to events like the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the 1992 Los Angeles riots, and 9/11. His work has also appeared in numerous journals and collections, most recently Television and New Media and The Comedy Studies Reader.

Suzanne Scott is Assistant Professor in the Department of Radio-Television-Film at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Fake Geek Girls: Fandom, Gender, and the Convergence Culture Industry and co-editor with Melissa A. Click of The Routledge Companion to Media Fandom.

Luke Stadel is an entertainment industry researcher and consultant based in Los Angeles. He received his PhD in screen cultures from Northwestern University and has published in numerous peer-reviewed journals on the history of film, television, and media technologies.

Louisa Stein is Associate Professor of Film and Media Culture at Middlebury College. Louisa is author of Millennial Fandom: Television Audiences in the Transmedia Age and co-editor with Allison McCracken, Alexander Cho, and Indira Neill Hoch, of A Tumblr Book, with Kristina Busse of Sherlock and Transmedia Fandom, and with Sharon Marie Ross of Teen Television: Programming and Fandom. Her work explores audience engagement in transmedia culture, with emphasis on questions of cultural and digital contexts, gender, and generation.

Ethan Thompson is Professor of Media Arts at Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi. He is the author of Parody and Taste in Postwar American Television Culture and co-editor with Jeffrey P. Jones and Lucas Hatlen of Television History, The Peabody Archive, and Cultural Memory and with Jonathan Gray and Jeffrey P. Jones of Satire TV: Politics and Comedy in the Post-Network Era. He directed the documentary TV Family about a forgotten forerunner to reality television.

Ethan Tussey is Associate Professor of Moving Image Studies in the School of Film, Media and Theatre at Georgia State University. His work explores the relationship between the entertainment industry and the digitally empowered public. His book The Procrastination Economy: The Big Business of Downtime details the economic and social value of mobile device use in the contexts of the workplace, the commute, the waiting room, and the living room.

Kristen J. Warner is Associate Professor in the Department of Journalism and Creative Media at the University of Alabama. She is the author of The Cultural Politics of Colorblind TV Casting. Warner’s research interests are centered on the media industries, race, representation, and creative labor. Warner’s work can be found in academic journals, a host of anthologies, websites such as the Los Angeles Review of Books and Film Quarterly, and of course Twitter.