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Journal of American Ethnic History

... The book grew out of a Colorado conference on the use of video and film in college classes ..... more ... The book grew out of a Colorado conference on the use of video and film in college classes ... First, it takes "a broad ethnic studies stand point" that focuses on "how racialization is either ... Second, the volume analyzes race and ethnicity in relationship to gender, sexuality, and class ...

Keywords for Latina/o Studies , 2017

After Midnight

Watchmen’s scenes set in Oklahoma, New York, and Saigon were all filmed in Georgia to take advant... more Watchmen’s scenes set in Oklahoma, New York, and Saigon were all filmed in Georgia to take advantage of state subsidies for film and TV production. An increasing number of contemporary TV series are filmed in precarious places, profiting from conditions that produce structural inequalities for people of color. Such shows contain disavowed critical knowledge about how government incentives to attract TV and film producers reproduce racial inequality and, more broadly, about the historical preconditions for cotemporary precarity. Drawing inspiration from Black, Chicanx, and Indigenous TV studies focused on the role of state power, this chapter brings together political-economic and textual analysis. It reconstructs a materialist history of Watchmen’s production, demonstrating how location shooting contributes to the reproduction of unequal spaces, while also examining the implications of such material histories for interpreting the show’s narrative. This chapter examines Watchmen’s implicit dialogue with its location, including the many Confederate memorials surrounding its production.

Technology and Culture, 2019

Journal of Visual Culture, 2004

The Journal of Popular Culture, 2005

American Literary History, 2005

American Studies , 2021

Hollywood makes an increasing number of contemporary TV series in precarious places, profiting fr... more Hollywood makes an increasing number of contemporary TV series in precarious places, profiting from conditions that produce structural inequalities for people of color while projecting conflicted representations of race and difference. I examine three streaming TV series and their filming locations: Watchmen in Atlanta, Georgia and environs; Los Espookys in Santiago, Chile; and Vida in Boyle Heights, California. The three shows contain disavowed critical knowledge about how government incentives to attract TV and filmmakers reproduce racial inequality and, more broadly, about the historical preconditions for contemporary precarity. That knowledge remains invisible, however, so long as we view TV shows a

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Building on the work of Michael Rogin, this essay turns to college films starring Ronald Reagan, ... more Building on the work of Michael Rogin, this essay turns to college films starring Ronald Reagan, arguing that they anticipate his administration of the University of California while Governor, and presage contemporary models of academic freedom that emerge from a matrix of white supremacy, settler colonialism, and heteropatriarchy.

Johns Hopkins University Press is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend acces... more Johns Hopkins University Press is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to ELH.