Convenient Fictions: the Disciplining Mechanisms of Screenplay Structure
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Bad Girls: Agency, Revenge, and Redemption in Contemporary Drama
e Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy Bad Girls: Agency, Revenge, and Redemption in Contemporary Drama Courtney Watson, Ph.D. Radford University Roanoke, Virginia, United States [email protected] ABSTRACT Cultural movements including #TimesUp and #MeToo have contributed momentum to the demand for and development of smart, justified female criminal characters in contemporary television drama. These women are representations of shifting power dynamics, and they possess agency as they channel their desires and fury into success, redemption, and revenge. Building on works including Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl and Netflix’s Orange is the New Black, dramas produced since 2016—including The Handmaid’s Tale, Ozark, and Killing Eve—have featured the rise of women who use rule-breaking, rebellion, and crime to enact positive change. Keywords: #TimesUp, #MeToo, crime, television, drama, power, Margaret Atwood, revenge, Gone Girl, Orange is the New Black, The Handmaid’s Tale, Ozark, Killing Eve Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy 37 Watson From the recent popularity of the anti-heroine in novels and films like Gone Girl to the treatment of complicit women and crime-as-rebellion in Hulu’s adaptation of The Handmaid’s Tale to the cultural watershed moments of the #TimesUp and #MeToo movements, there has been a groundswell of support for women seeking justice both within and outside the law. Behavior that once may have been dismissed as madness or instability—Beyoncé laughing wildly while swinging a baseball bat in her revenge-fantasy music video “Hold Up” in the wake of Jay-Z’s indiscretions comes to mind—can be examined with new understanding. -
A Film by MARIETTE MONPIERRE (Guadeloupe, Dominican Republic) 41 Minutes
BETWEEN TWO SHORES a film by MARIETTE MONPIERRE (Guadeloupe, Dominican Republic) 41 minutes DISCUSSION GUIDE SEASON 10 AfroPoP: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange is a US- HOST: NICHOLAS L. ASHE stars as Micah based public television show featuring independent West in the critically acclaimed OWN series documentaries and short films about life, art, and culture Queen Sugar, directed by Ava DuVernay from the contemporary African Diaspora. The African and executive-produced by Oprah Winfrey. Diaspora includes Africa, the Caribbean, Canada, South Earlier he played Viola Davis’s son in the courtroom drama Custody. Ashe made his America, Europe, the US, and anywhere people of African acting debut at age 10 in the role of Young descent have made a significant contribution to the Simba in the national tour of The Lion King. culture. Ashe is also a talented vocalist, pianist and composer. In 2015, he created a The films are always carefully selected to portray a scholarship for young artists in his more balanced view of Africa than you’ll get on the hometown of Freeport, Long Island. nightly news and to provide fuel for what must be a Ashe collaborated with Cierra Glaude global conversation on the present day realities and on a short film titled Last Looks, which contemporary lifestyles of Africans, both on the continent had its world premiere at the 2017 Urbanworld Film Festival. and in the Diaspora. USING THIS GUIDE BACKGROUND The first section of the guide provides • A synopsis of the film and information on the filmmaker, along with a list of central characters and topics • Background on the film’s key issues, focused on brief historical, cultural, and political context DISCUSSION PROMPTS The second part of this guide provides questions crafted to be springboards for dialogue, inviting audience members to engage with the issues raised in the film and with one another. -
'THE SWEETEST CHRISTMAS' Cast Bios LACEY CHABERT
‘THE SWEETEST CHRISTMAS’ Cast Bios LACEY CHABERT (Kylie) – Lacey Chabert is regarded as one of the best young actresses of her generation. From an early age, she was exposed to dramatic and musical performances in and around her hometown of Purvis, Mississippi. Chabert received her first break in a cough syrup commercial before successfully auditioning for the Broadway production of Les Miserables, in which she played young Cosette for two years. In 1998, she made her feature film debut as Penny Robinson in Lost in Space. Chabert’s resume is as extensive as it is versatile. Consistently delivering memorable performances, she has become one of Hollywood’s most sought-after talents. Chabert is best known for her role as Claudia on the Golden Globe Award®-winning FOX television series “Party of Five” and has appeared on ABC Family’s “Baby Daddy,” ABC’s “All My Children” as well as in several made-for-TV movies, including “Gypsy” starring Bette Midler; “A Little Piece of Heaven” with Cloris Leachman; Lifetime’s “What if God Were the Sun?” starring opposite Gena Rowlands; and the Hallmark Channel Original Movies “Moonlight in Vermont” with Carlos Marks and Jesse Moss, “All of My Heart” with Edward Asner, “Matchmaker Santa” opposite Florence Henderson, “A Royal Christmas” alongside Jane Seymour and John Ratzenberger, and “All of My Heart: Inn Love” with Brennan Elliott. Chabert also starred in the Hallmark Movies & Mysteries Original “The Color of Rain,” which was the highest rated and most watched original film in the network’s history. Chabert’s feature film credits include Warner Bros.’ Ghosts of Girlfriend’s Past starring opposite Jennifer Garner and Matthew McConaughey; box office hit Mean Girls, for which she received outstanding reviews and an MTV Movie Award; Daddy Day Care, starring as Anjelica Huston’s daughter; and A&E’s The Brooke Ellison Story, playing the lead in Christopher Reeve’s final directorial project. -
Amy Schumer Netflix Special Transcript
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The Portrayal of Black Female Athletes in Children's Picturebooks
Strides Toward Equality: The Portrayal of Black Female Athletes in Children’s Picturebooks Dissertation Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor of Philosophy in the Graduate School of The Ohio State University By Rebekah May Bruce, M.A. Graduate Program in Education: Teaching and Learning The Ohio State University 2018 Dissertation Committee: Michelle Ann Abate, Advisor Patricia Enciso Ruth Lowery Alia Dietsch Copyright by Rebekah May Bruce 2018 Abstract This dissertation examines nine narrative non-fiction picturebooks about Black American female athletes. Contextualized within the history of children’s literature and American sport as inequitable institutions, this project highlights texts that provide insights into the past and present dominant cultural perceptions of Black female athletes. I begin by discussing an eighteen-month ethnographic study conducted with racially minoritized middle school girls where participants analyzed picturebooks about Black female athletes. This chapter recognizes Black girls as readers and intellectuals, as well as highlights how this project serves as an example of a white scholar conducting crossover scholarship. Throughout the remaining chapters, I rely on cultural studies, critical race theory, visual theory, Black feminist theory, and Marxist theory to provide critical textual and visual analysis of the focal picturebooks. Applying these methodologies, I analyze the authors and illustrators’ representations of gender, race, and class. Chapter Two discusses the ways in which the portrayals of track star Wilma Rudolph in Wilma Unlimited and The Quickest Kid in Clarksville demonstrate shifting cultural understandings of Black female athletes. Chapter Three argues that Nothing but Trouble and Playing to Win draw on stereotypes of Black Americans as “deviant” in order to construe tennis player Althea Gibson as a “wild child.” Chapter Four discusses the role of family support in the representations of Alice Coachman in Queen of the Track and Touch the Sky. -
Perceptions of Success from Members of the Founding Class of MC Squared STEM High School Jeffrey D
National Louis University Digital Commons@NLU Dissertations 6-2013 The esM sage 2.0: Perceptions of Success from Members of the Founding Class of MC Squared STEM High School Jeffrey D. McClellan National Louis University Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.nl.edu/diss Part of the Curriculum and Instruction Commons, Curriculum and Social Inquiry Commons, Disability and Equity in Education Commons, Educational Leadership Commons, Educational Methods Commons, Elementary and Middle and Secondary Education Administration Commons, Science and Mathematics Education Commons, and the Urban Education Commons Recommended Citation McClellan, Jeffrey D., "The eM ssage 2.0: Perceptions of Success from Members of the Founding Class of MC Squared STEM High School" (2013). Dissertations. 193. https://digitalcommons.nl.edu/diss/193 This Dissertation - Public Access is brought to you for free and open access by Digital Commons@NLU. It has been accepted for inclusion in Dissertations by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons@NLU. For more information, please contact [email protected]. THE MESSAGE 2.0: PERCEPTIONS OF SUCCESS FROM MEMBERS OF THE FOUNDING CLASS OF MC SQUARED STEM HIGH SCHOOL Jeffrey D. McClellan Dissertation Educational Leadership Doctoral Program Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements of Doctor of Education in the Foster G. McGaw Graduate School National College of Education National-Louis University February, 2013 Copyright by Jeffrey David McClellan, 2013 All rights reserved ABSTRACT This dissertation examines the methods of learning from the student’s perspective in order to understand what made the first graduating class of MC Squared successful. The conceptual model of student success composed of non-academic factors of motivation, social connectedness, and self-management was used for the lens from which to understand the six students in depth. -
'Game of Thrones,' 'Fleabag' Take Top Emmy Honors on Night of Upsets
14 TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2019 Stars hit Emmy red carpet Jodie Maisie Comer Natasha Lyonne Williams Michelle Williams Naomi Watts Sophie Turner Kendall Jenner Vera Farmiga Julia Garner beats GoT stars to win ‘Game of Thrones,’ ‘Fleabag’ take top first Emmy Los Angeles Emmy honors on night of upsets ctress Julia Gar- Los Angeles Emmy for comedy writing. Aner beat “Game of “This is just getting ridiculous!,” Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Thrones” stars, including edieval drama “Game Waller-Bridge said as she accept- ‘Fleabag’ wins big at Emmys Sophie Turner, Lena Head- of Thrones” closed ed the comedy series Emmy. Los Angeles ey, Maisie Williams, to win Mits run with a fourth “It’s really wonderful to know, her first Emmy in Support- Emmy award for best drama se- and reassuring, that a dirty, angry, ctress Phoebe Waller-Bridge won Lead ing Actress in a Drama Se- ries while British comedy “Flea- messed-up woman can make it Actress in a Comedy Series trophy at ries category at the 2019 bag” was the upset winner for to the Emmys,” Waller-Bridge Athe 71st Primetime Emmy Awards gala Emmy awards here. best comedy series on Sunday on added. here for her role in “Fleabag”, The first-time Emmy a night that rewarded newcom- Already the most- awarded which was also named as the nominee was in contention ers over old favorites. series in best comedy series. with Gwendoline Christie Billy Porter, the star of LGBTQ The Emmys are Hollywood’s Emmy “This is just getting ridicu- (“Game of Thrones”), Head- series “Pose,” won the best dra- top honors in television, and the history lous,” Waller-Bridge said as she ey (“Game of Thrones”), matic actor Emmy, while British night belonged to Phoebe Waller- with accepted the honour for best com- Fiona Shaw (“Killing newcomer Jodie Comer took the Bridge, the star and creator of 38 wins, edy series. -
Examining Television Narrative Structure
Butler University Digital Commons @ Butler University Scholarship and Professional Work - Communication College of Communication 2002 Re(de)fining Narrative Events: Examining Television Narrative Structure M. J. Porter D. L. Larson Allison Harthcock Butler University, [email protected] K. B. Nellis Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/ccom_papers Part of the Communication Commons Recommended Citation Porter, M.J., Larson, D.L., Harthcock, A., & Nellis, K.B. (2002). Re(de)fining narrative events: Examining television narrative structure, Journal of Popular Film and Television, 30, 23-30. Available from: digitalcommons.butler.edu/ccom_papers/9/ This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the College of Communication at Digital Commons @ Butler University. It has been accepted for inclusion in Scholarship and Professional Work - Communication by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Butler University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Re(de)fining Narrative Events: Examining Television Narrative Structure. This is an electronic version of an article published in Porter, M.J., Larson, D.L., Harthcock, A., & Nellis, K.B. (2002). Re(de)fining narrative events: Examining television narrative structure, Journal of Popular Film and Television, 30, 23-30. The print edition of Journal of Popular Film and Television is available online at: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/VJPF Television's narratives serve as our society's major storyteller, reflecting our values and defining our assumptions about the nature of reality (Fiske and Hartley 85). On a daily basis, television viewers are presented with stories of heroes and villains caught in the recurring turmoil of interrelationships or in the extraordinary circumstances of epic situations. -
Justine Barkerfull
Justine Barker [email protected] Composer justinebarker.com facebook.com/justinebarkermusic +44 (0) 7876 580742 @justinebarker12 Inventive and collaborative composer creating exciting emotive music for media. Wide ranging projects from primetime terrestrial TV to independent films. Enthusiasm, consistency and can-do attitude have fostered continuing excellent partnerships with directors and producers. Focus to date has been primarily drama, but also experienced in other genres including documentaries and promos. • Series Composer for BBC Casualty, London Kills and Suspects • Dedicated to creating well crafted musical identities for shows and characters within budget and schedule • Multi-instrumentalist with all-round production ability; write, record, produce, arrange, • Well organised, good communicator with excellent understanding of post-production • Music broadcast on BBC1, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5, plus non terrestrial channels • Winner of Best Composer for Dawn at Underwire Film Festival 2016 • Scored over 40 short films screened at festivals worldwide. CREDITS: CASUALTY – S.35 TV Drama – 27 x 1 hour Producer Loretta Preece December 2020 to date BBC THE UNICORN FILM Director Dylan Harvey Documentary Pilot Producer Liz Roberts May 2020 SB Productions THE DREAMCATCHER Director Piotr Szkopiak Short Drama Producer Caroline Koziol December 2020 Magdalena Kunz EASTENDERS – 6023, 6024 TV Drama – 2 x 25 mins Director Matthew Evans October 2019 Producer Jon Sen BBC CASUALTY – S.34 TV Drama – 46 x 1 hour Producers Loretta Preece, -
Audience Affect, Interactivity, and Genre in the Age of Streaming TV
. Volume 16, Issue 2 November 2019 Navigating the Nebula: Audience affect, interactivity, and genre in the age of streaming TV James M. Elrod, University of Michigan, USA Abstract: Streaming technologies continue to shift audience viewing practices. However, aside from addressing how these developments allow for more complex serialized streaming television, not much work has approached concerns of specific genres that fall under the field of digital streaming. How do emergent and encouraged modes of viewing across various SVOD platforms re-shape how audiences affectively experience and interact with genre and generic texts? What happens to collective audience discourses as the majority of viewers’ situated consumption of new serial content becomes increasingly accelerated, adaptable, and individualized? Given the range and diversity of genres and fandoms, which often intersect and overlap despite their current fragmentation across geographies, platforms, and lines of access, why might it be pertinent to reconfigure genre itself as a site or node of affective experience and interactive, collective production? Finally, as studies of streaming television advance within the industry and academia, how might we ponder on a genre-by- genre basis, fandoms’ potential need for time and space to collectively process and interact affectively with generic serial texts – in other words, to consider genres and generic texts themselves as key mediative sites between the contexts of production and those of fans’ interactivity and communal, affective pleasure? This article draws together threads of commentary from the industry, scholars, and culture writers about SVOD platforms, emergent viewing practices, speculative genres, and fandoms to argue for the centrality of genre in interventions into audience studies. -
Reminder List of Productions Eligible for the 90Th Academy Awards Alien
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