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Winter '12 Co-Editors-in-Chief: Jennifer Porst Bryan Hartzheim Katy Ralko Features: Lindsay Giggey Matthew Perkins Reviews: Dennis Lo Jessica Fowler Columns: Andrew Young Vanessa Mancia META: James Fleury Ross Lenihan Research Assistant:: Andy Myers Mediascape UCLA School of Theatre, Film, and Television 102 East Melnitz Hall Box 951622 Los Angeles, CA 90095-1622 General Email Address - Mediascape@tft.ucla.edu Funding Provided by the UCLA Graduate Students' Association	Introduction Letter from the Editors Katy Ralko and Bryan Hartzheim Features Watching the River: Mise en Scène and Safe Space in The Night of the Hunter by Bryan Wuest Disneyomatics: Media, Branding, and Urban Space in Post-Katrina New Orleans by Helen Morgan Parmett War Games at Home, Home Games at War: Geography and Military First-Person Shooting Games by Diana M. Pozo Reviews "Between Heaven and Here": Inner-City Apartheid and Socio-Spatial Marginalization in The Wire by Ioana Literat The Driving Forces and Scope of The Mapping of Taiwan by Jerome Keating Columns Christopher Nolan's Inception: The Oneiric Intruder and the Architecturalism of Space by Andrew Young Negotiating Utopia and Dystopia: Space and Architecture in Battlestar Galactica (2004-2009) by Annie Dell'Aria "Is Space Political?": Oppositional Strategies in Treme by Katie Moylan Meta Media Boundaries and Bullet Time: A Hard Boiled Fan Plays Stranglehold by Harrison Gish Urban Metaphysics: Creating Game Layers on Top of the World by Nettrice R. Gaskins Revenge of the (Angry Video Game) Nerd: James Rolfe and Web 2.0 Fandom by Jim Fleury Video Games: The State of the Field — A Discussion with Steve Mamber, Peter Lunenfeld, and Eddo Stern (March 28, 2011) moderated by David O'Grady
Winter '11 Co-Editors-in-Chief: Jennifer Porst Maya Montañez Smukler Bryan Hartzheim Features: Katy Ralko Michelle Ton Reviews: James Fleury Dennis Lo Columns: Ross Lenihan Benjamin Sampson META: Heather Collette-VanDeraa Nilo Naraghi Mediascape UCLA School of Theatre, Film, and Television 102 East Melnitz Hall Box 951622 Los Angeles, CA 90095-1622 General Email Address - Mediascape@tft.ucla.edu Funding Provided by the UCLA Graduate Students' Association	Introduction Letter from the Editors by Maya Montañez Smukler, Jennifer Porst, and Bryan Hartzheim Features From Synthespian to Avatar: Re-framing the Digital Human in Final Fantasy and The Polar Express By Jessica Aldred Tsuruko Aoki: Wife, Lover, Transcultural Star (visual essay) By Bryan Hikari Hartzheim Pop Music and Wong Kar-wai (visual essay) By Brian Hu Impact on Soft Power of Cultural Mobility: Japan to East Asia By Seiko Yasumoto Reviews Suturing the Wound of Globalization: Immigration and Organs in Dirty Pretty Things By Abby Hinsman Coming of Age in Media/Cultural Studies: Critical Approaches By Dennis Lo Meta Small Cinemas: How They Thrive and Why They Matter By Mette Hjort Roundtable Discussion on the Local and Global in Media Studies Respondents: Amelie Hastie, Roshanak Khesti & Laura U. Marks Columns Introduction By Ross Lenihan & Ben Sampson Robert Greenwald Interview By Ross Lenihan & Ben Sampson Ina Inaba Interview By Ross Lenihan Amie Williams Interview By Ben Sampson Globalization, Digital Films, and New Directions in Documentary By Tom Zaniello Speculations on the Virtual and the Viral Witness to Human Rights Crises By Sam Gregory and Patricia Zimmermann Columns Videos Local/Global in Documentary Films: Traditional Media and New Media (video interview) By Ross Lenihan & Ben Sampson Local/Global in Documentary Films: Short Format vs Long Format (video interview) By Ross Lenihan & Ben Sampson Local/Global in Documentary Films: New Media and Social Change (video interview) By Ross Lenihan & Ben Sampson Local/Global in Documentary Films: Effectiveness of Advocacy Media (video interview) By Ross Lenihan & Ben Sampson
Fall '09 Co-Editors-in-Chief: Jennifer Porst Maya Montañez Smukler Associate Features Editor: Mila Zuo Columns Editor: Bryan Hartzheim Assistant Columns Editor: Paula Perez META Editor: David O'Grady Assistant META Editor: Heather Collette-VanDeraa Research Assistant: Katherine Simon Web Designer: Delicious Simplicity Mediascape UCLA School of Theatre, Film, and Television 102 East Melnitz Hall Box 951622 Los Angeles, CA 90095-1622 General Email Address - Mediascape@tft.ucla.edu Funding Provided by the UCLA Graduate Students' Association	Introduction Letter from the Editors by Maya Montañez Smukler and Jennifer Porst Features Sex, Comedy and Controversy: Kiss Me, Stupid, What's New, Pussycat?, New Hollywood, and Metropolitan Taste By Ken Feil The Shaw-Tarantino Connection: Rolling Thunder Pictures and the Exploitation Aesthetics of Cool By Kenneth Chan "A Hell of a Place": The Everyday as Revisionist Content in Contemporary Westerns By Erica Stein Video Essays Introductions By Jennifer Porst, Maya Montañez Smukler White House, Black President By Clifford Hilo, Maya Montañez Smukler, Julia Wright Layers of Paradox in F for Fake By Benjamin Sampson HBO's Cinematized Television By Erin Hill and Brian Hu Towards a New Genre of Video Game Play By Drew Morton, David O'Grady and Jennifer Porst Columns "This is what's really cool about NFL Films" - An Interview with Margaret Ruffing Morris By Jennifer Porst Reading ESPN Against Niches By Sudeep Sharma Meta Scholars on the Subject of Media, Politics and the Academy (in 10 parts) By Jason Mittell, Scott Ruston, Timothy Shary, and Vernon Shetley Urban Script: Constructing the Site Through Narrative and Documentary Structures By Diane Davis-Sikora
Fall '08 Co-Editors-in-Chief: Jennifer Porst Maya Montañez Smukler Features Editor: Mila Zuo Assistant Features Editor: Corella Difede Reviews Editor: Brian Hu Columns Editor: Bryan Hartzheim Jonathan Cohn META Editor: David O’Grady Copy Editor: Paula Perez Research Assistant: Katherine Simon Web Designer: Delicious Simplicity General Email Address - Mediascape@tft.ucla.edu Funding Provided by the UCLA Graduate Students' Association	Introduction Letter from the Editors by Maya Montañez Smukler and Jennifer Porst Articles By, For, and About: The 'Real' Problem in the Feminist Film Movement by Shilyh Warren Gray or Black? Howard Koch and the Elusive Architecture of the Hollywood "Lists" by Heather Heckman Reviews Media Spectacle and the 2008 Presidential Election: Some Pre-Election Reflections by Douglas Kellner Low and Behold: Using Fiction/Documentary Hybridity to See the Real Damage of Hurricane Katrina by David O'Grady Columns New Media as Election Strategy: How Obama and McCain Court the Net Generation by Brett McCracken Out of the Mouths of Babes: Animated Sitcoms and Political Incorrectness by Phil Scepanski Bad Techno-Subjects: Griefing is Serious Business by Aubrey Anable Meta Scholars on the Subject of Media, Politics and the Academy (in 12 parts) By Allyson Nadia Field, Toby Miller, Bill Nichols, and Chuck Tryon
Spring '08 Co-Editors-in-Chief: Jennifer Porst Brett McCracken Features Editor: Maya Montañez Smukler Reviews Editor: Brian Hu Columns Editor: Jonathan Cohn META Editor: Bill McClain Research Assistant: Jasmine Thornewell Web Designer: Delicious Simplicity General Email Address - Mediascape@tft.ucla.edu Funding Provided by the UCLA Graduate Students' Association	Introduction Letter from the Editors by Brett McCracken and Jennifer Porst Articles Historiography of the World Part 1: The Jewish Body, Historical Crisis and The Comedic Farce by Joshua Louis Moss Acting for the Cameras: Performance in the Multi-Camera Sitcom by Christine Becker Male Masculinity as the Celebration of Failure: The Frat Pack, Women, and the Trauma of Victimization in the "Dude Flick" by Peter Alilunas Reviews O Brother, O Sister by Jeffrey Sconce And Now, Just the News: A Week in the Life of A Daily Show by Nick Marx The Darjeeling Limited: Critiquing Orientalism on the Train to Nowhere by Nandana Bose Columns First-Person-Shooter-Suicide and Some Political Provocations of Emergent Gameplay by John Bridge Machinimateur Wanted: The Professionalization of Machinima by Robert Jones Game Capture: The Machinima Archive and the History of Digital Games by Henry Lowood Notes on What One Can Learn About a Video Game Without Playing It by Deanna Gross Trauma Engines: Representing School Shootings Through Halo by Harrison Gish Meta A Manifesto For Critical Media by Eric Faden The Documentary's New Politics by Eric Faden "Here Comes the Sun?" Persephone's Winter and the Gendered Construction of Myth by Phil Wagner Some Analog Lines David Lowery World of Wonder: An Authorized Documentary of a Production Subculture by Adam Fish Notes Towards a Project on Citizen Kane by Paul Malcolm
Spring '07 Co-Editors-in-Chief: John Bridge Erin Hill Features Editor: Laurel Westrup Reviews Editor: Brian Hu Columns Editor: Jonathan Cohn Research Assistant: Brett McCracken Copy Editors: Bill McClain Jennifer Porst Web Designer: Dawn Fratini General Email Address - Mediascape@tft.ucla.edu Funding Provided by the UCLA Graduate Students' Association	Articles Slights and Slants: Visual Representation in Carnivale by Moe Folk Negotiating Global/Local Identities: Jia Zhang-ke's The World by Clifford Hilo Columns The Game Mechanics of Enlightenment - An Interview With Tracy Fullerton by Jonathan Cohn Is that a Kevin Smith in Your Pocket? Notes on a (Possibly) Emerging Platform by Ethan Tussey Obscure Objects of Media Studies: Echo, Hotbird and Ikonos by Lisa Parks Installments A Curious Circumstance of the iPod Shuffle by Bill Bahng Boyer Reviews The Promise: Re-writing Romantic Archetypes by Ya-chen Chen In Response to the AFI: Top 100 American Films by Women Directors by Erin Hill and Brian Hu
Spring '06 Co-Editors-in-Chief: John Bridge Erin Hill Features Editor: Laurel Westrup Reviews Editor: Brian Hu Associate Editor: Jason Gendler Web Designer: Dawn Fratini General Email Address - Mediascape@tft.ucla.edu Funding Provided by the UCLA Graduate Students' Association	Articles "This is our Holocaust": Deepa Mehta's Earth and the Question of Partition Trauma by Dorothy Barenscott Eija-Liisa Ahtila's Affective Images in The House by Tarja Laine Storied Stores: Visual Culture and a People's History of the Archive by Zoe Trodd Reviews Women's History Trilogy (Kim Soyoung, 2000-2004) by Serena Formica Closed Borders and Open Secrets: Regional Lockout, the Film Industry, and Code-Free DVD Players by Brian Hu Fostering International Cinema: The Rotterdam Film Festival, CineMart, and the Hubert Bals Fund by Daniel Steinhart
Spring '05 Co-Editors-in-Chief: John Bridge Erin Hill Features Editor: Christopher Lane Amy Sloper Reviews Editor: Brian Hu Rowena Aquino Columns Editor: Mary Samuelson META Editor: Candace Moore Web Designer: Group Effort General Email Address - Mediascape@tft.ucla.edu Funding Provided by the UCLA Graduate Students' Association	Articles Screen Angst: New Media Orientations and Youthfulness by Stephen Michael Charbonneau Inch'Allah Dimanche vs. Lila dit Ca: Transnational Feminism Counters the Streamlining of Accented Cinema by Zinaid Meeran Virtuality and Control In Spielberg's Minority Report by Jason Skonieczny Algunos Aspectos del Filmoteca de la UNAM by Noah Zweig Reviews Taking Film Studies to the Streets (and Back Again): On the Necessity of Criticism by Brian Hu Hollywood on the Head of a Pin: Montage and Marketing at the Oscars by Lisa Kernan Save the Green Planet!, Memories of Murder, and the 80s in Cinema by Byun Sungchan, translated by Hyongshin Kim Accessing Wal-Mart on the Internet: Diegetic Layers and Alternative Distribution and Exhibition Practices by Rowena S. Aquino Columns Notes from a Videogame Breakdown by Savitri Young Artificial Life in Real Time by Bernardo Rondeau Meta Notes on the "Historical Turn" and the Uses of Theory by Eric Vanstrom Your History Acts as Your Gravity: On Personal History, Passion, and Media Studies by Laurel Westrup

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