Film,Television and Media Studies articles in STUDIES IN POPULAR CULTURE

Framegrab of Rooney Mara as 'final girl' Nancy Holbrook in the 2010 remake of A Nightmare On Elm Street (Samuel Bayer, 2010). Read Kyle Christensen's article on this film's source text ('The Final Girl versus Wes Craven's A Nightmare on Elm Street: Proposing a Stronger Model of Feminism in Slasher Horror Cinema'), and also check out Film Studies For Free's entry of links to 'Final Girl' Studies

Below, Film Studies For Free links to the entire online contents, to date, of the excellent Open Access journal Studies in Popular Culture: a list of more than 60 great articles on film, television and media studies. 

The journal of the US Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association in the South, SPC dates back, in its offline, print version, to 1977, making it one of the oldest, continuously published academic journals to treat audiovisual media.  

SPC has been online since 2006 and is a wonderful example of how an online presence indicates no necessary lowering of the quality bar for a properly peer-reviewed journal. 


29.1 October 2006 [Go here for an online table of contents)

• "Reinventing the Hero: Gardner's Grendel and the Shifting Face of Beowulf in Popular Culture" -- Michael Livingston and John William Sutton 
• "Cowboys, Indians, and Iraq: Jessica Lynch, Loria Pestewa, and the Great American Makeover." -- Gioia Woods
• "Artistic Schizophrenia: How Fight Club's Message is Subverted by its Own Nature" -- Kyle Bishop
• "Michael, Are You Okay? You've Been Hit By a Smooth Criminal: Racism, Contraversy, and Parody in the Video Clips "Smooth Criminal" and "You Rock My World." -- Elenda Oliete
• "'Sigmund Freud, Analyze This': How Madonna Situates "Die Another Day" Beyond the Pleasure Principle" -- David Sigler 

30.2 Spring 2008 [Go here to find a PDF of the entire issue]

• Little America: R.E.M., Howard Finster, and the Southern "Outsider Art" Aesthetic -- Matthew Sutton
• Brokeback Mountain: Masculinity and Manhood -- James R. Keller and Anne Goodwyn Jones
• Race, Crime, and Motherhood in George Pelecanos's Soul Circus -- Alexander Pitofsky
• The Politics of Talk: The Oprah Interview as Narrative -- Sarah Henstra
• Survival of the Stereotypical: A Study of Personal Characteristics and Order of Elimination on Reality Television -- Bryan E. Denham and Richelle N. Jones
• A Car of Her Own: Volvo's "Your Concept Car" as a Vehicle for Feminism? -- Roy Schwartzman and Merci Decker
• Trainspotting, High Fidelity, and the Diction of Addiction -- Scott Stalcup 

31.1 Fall 2008 [Go here to find a pdf of the entire issue]

• From the Editor: Popular Culture of the Past 
• From Apicius to Gastroporn: Form, Function, and Ideology in the History of Cookery Books -- Abigail Dennis
• Queer Investigations: Foxy Ladies and Dandy Detectives in American Dime Novels -- Pamela Bedore
• Literary Art in an Age of Formula Fiction and Mass Consumption: Double Coding in Arthur Conan Doyle’s “The Blue Carbuncle” -- Nils Clausson 
• Lost Girl: Diminishing Dorothy of Oz -- SydneyDuncan
• The Protean Character of Jello, Icon of Food and Identity -- Susan Grove Hall
• Gazing on Fu-Manchu: Obscurity and Imperial Crisis in the Work of Sax Rohmer -- Rebecca Wingfield
• “To Renew the Old World”: Record Collecting as Cultural Production -- Kevin Moist 

31.2 Spring 2009 [Go here to find a pdf of the entire issue]

• From the Editor: Popular Culture's "Material and Conceptual Conditions 
• Fast Food Frontiers: I've Got a Feeling We're Not in Kansas Anymore -- Minjoo Oh
• Sexed Appeals: Network Marketing and Adult Home Novelty Parties -- Dawn Heinecken 
• Popularizing HIgh Culture: Zemeckis's Beowulf -- Kathleen Forni
• Fear and Loathing in Knoxvegas: Representations of the "Other" in the Official Press Before and During the 1982 Knoxville World's Fair -- Stephen Bales and Charlie Gee
• Paul Reveres of Early Radio: The Boy Scouts and the Origin of Broadcasting -- Noah Arceneaux 
• The Legend of Sacco and Vanzetti: Keeping the Story Alive on the Political Left in Literature, Song, and Film -- Ron BrileyTamenicia or Tammy; James or Jim Bob; Bessie or Heather: Patterns and Significance of Choosing Names for American Babies -- Claude J. Smith, Jr. 

32.1 Fall 2009 [Go here to find a PDF of the Entire Issue]

• From the Editor: Moral Choices in the Art of Popular Culture
• "Spiritual Warfare" and Intolerance in Popular Culture: The Left Behind Franchise, the Commodification of Belief, and the Consequences for Imagination -- Marnie Jones
• The Narcissism of Bipartisanship: Accessing Ann Coulter on the Internet -- Lindsey Ives
• "Not Like Other Men"?: The Vampire Body in Joss Whedon's Angel -- Lorna Jowett
• "...long before the stars were torn down ...": Sam Shepard and Bob Dylan's "Brownsville Girl" -- Katherine Weiss 
• Death and Magic in Clive Barker's Lord of Illusions: A Terror Management Perspective -- Jonathan Bassett
• Disneyfying Dickens: Oliver and Company and The Muppet Christmas Carol as Dickensian Musicals -- Marc Napolitano 
• Even a Tramp Can Dream: An Examination of the Clash Between "High Art" and "Low Art" in the Films of Charlie Chaplin -- Richard Ward 

32.2 Spring 2010 [Go here to find a pdf of the entire issue]

• From the editor: No Monoliths Here
• Striking Back Without Missing a Beat: Radical Responses to Domestic Violence in Country Music’s The Dixie Chicks and Salsa’s Celia Cruz -- Delia Poey
• “But This Is the South”: Ambivalent Regionalism in Jan Karon’s Mitford Novels -- Eleanor Hersey Nickel
• Adapting Shakespeare for Star Trek and Star Trek for Shakespeare: The Klingon Hamlet and the Spaces of Translation -- Karolina Kazimierczak
• The Jesus Fish: Evolution of a Cultural Icon -- Todd Edmondson
• The Politics of the "Open" Self: America in the Cinemas of King Vidor and Robert Altman -- Margaret Hrezo and William E. Hrezo
• Like a “Whopper Virgin”: Anthropological Reflections on Burger King’s Controversial Ad Campaign -- Ty Matejowsky 
• The Portrayal of Racial Minorities on Prime Time Television: A Replication of the Mastro and Greenberg Study a Decade Later -- Elizabeth Monk-Turner, Mary Heiserman, Crystle Johnson, Vanity Cotton, and Manny Jackson 

33.1 Fall 2010 [Go here to find a pdf of the entire issue]

• From the editor: Theory and Practice
• What's Entertainment? Notes Toward a Definition -- Stephen Bates and Anthony J. Ferri 
• Popular Fiction Studies: The Advantages of a New Field -- Matthew Schneider-Mayerson
• Interpretive Methodology from Literary Criticism: Carnivalesque Analysis of Popular Culture: Jackass, South Park, and ‘Everyday’ Life -- Gulnara Karimova
• The Cinematic and Historic Weight of Stone of Destiny -- Lynnette Porter
• Ken Follett and the Scribbler's Trade: A Midnight Train to Somewhere -- Carlos Ramet
• The “Aquatic Zionist” in The Yiddish Policemen's Union -- Bennett Kravitz
• “Tons of Useful Stuff”: Defining Wellness in Popular Magazines -- Carol-Ann Farkas 

33.2 Spring 2011 [Go here to find a PDF of the entire issue]

• From the editor: Cultural Fragments, Cultural Flowers
• My Vampire Boyfriend: Postfeminism, “Perfect” Masculinity, and the Contemporary Appeal of Paranormal Romance -- Ananya Mukherjea
• “Thou Shalt Not Crave Thy Neighbor” : True Blood, Abjection, and Otherness -- Sabrina Boyer
• Mad Men's Color Schemes: A Changing Palette of Working Women -- Katherine Gantz
• The Revolution Will Be Soooo Cute: YouTube “Hauls” and the Voice of Young Female Consumers -- Laura Jeffries
• Outsider Nostalgia in Dazed and Confused and Detroit Rock City -- Carey L. Martin
• The Beatles and the Art of the Tambourine -- Steven Hamelman
• Outsourced: Crime Stories, New World Horrors, and Genre -- Jonathan L. Crane 

34.1 Fall 2011 [Go here to find a PDF of the entire issue]

• From the editor: Art for Someone Else's Sake
• Protecting a City’s Image: The Death of Las Vegas Beat, 1961 -- Larry Dale Gragg
• The Final Girl versus Wes Craven's A Nightmare on Elm Street: Proposing a Stronger Model of Feminism in Slasher Horror Cinema -- Kyle Christensen
• “And I Started Wondering . . .”: Voiceover and Conversation in Sex and the City -- Ashli Dykes
• Refrigerator Design and Masculinity in Postwar Media, 1946-1960 -- Paul Gansky
• Pop Culture, Politics, and America's Favorite Animated Family: Partisan Bias in The Simpsons? -- Kenneth Michael White and Mirya Holman
• Evaluating the Presence of Social Strain in Rockstar Games’ Grand Theft Auto IV -- Patrick Osborne

A Cinematic World? On Jean Baudrillard and Film Studies

Image from Stop-Loss (Kimberly Peirce, 2008). Read Kim Toffoletti and Victoria Grace, 'Terminal Indifference: The Hollywood War Film Post-September 11', which treats this and other contemporary war films.

We are no longer the actors of the real but the double agents of the virtual.

Jean Baudrillard, Fragments: Cool Memories III (New York: Verso, 1997):125

On the occasion of an excellent new issue of online journal Film-Philosophy on "Baudrillard and Film-Philosophy" (Vol 14, No 2, 2010), Film Studies For Free is proud to present a long list of links to openly accessible Baudrillardian film studies. These are set out below the embedded video of the late Baudrillard in action himself. This list incorporates links to the FP articles.

It's so nice to have things in a simulacrum of one tidy place, FSFF thinks. And it hopes you will agree.

Jean Baudrillard thinking and talking about the violence of the image, the violence to the image, aggression, oppression, transgression, regression, effects and causes of violence, violence of the virtual, 3d, virtual reality, transparency, psychological and imaginary. Open Lecture given by Jean Baudrillard after his seminar for the students at the European Graduate School, EGS Media and Communication Program Studies Department, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, Europe, in 2004

By Jean Baudrillard

• Jean Baudrillard, 'Virtuality and Events: The Hell of Power', [Translated by Chris Turner], International Journal of Baudrillard Studies, Volume 3, Number 2 (July 2006)

• Jean Baudrillard, 'Violence of the Virtual and Integral Reality', [Translated by Dr. Marilyn Lambert-Drache], International Journal of Baudrillard Studies, Volume 2, Number 2 (July 2005)

• Jean Baudrillard, 'The Matrix Decoded:  Le Nouvel Observateur Interview With Jean Baudrillard', [Translated by: Dr. Gary Genosko and Adam Bryx], International Journal of Baudrillard Studies, Volume 1, Number 2 (July 2004) 

• Jean Baudrillard video lectures at EGS 

Engaging with Baudrillard's work:

• Stuart C. Aitken and Deborah P. Dixon, 'Imagining Geographies of Film', Erdkunde, Band 60/2006

• Chiara Armentano, '"The Image-Interface": New Forms of Narrative Visualization, Space and Time in Postmodern Cinema', Reconstruction, 8.3 (2008)

• Jon Baldwin, 'Introduction - White Magic: Baudrillard and Cinema', Film-Philosophy, Vol 14, No 2 (2010)

• Melanie Chan, 'Virtually Real and Really Virtual: Baudrillard’s Procession of Simulacrum and The Matrix', International Journal of Baudrillard Studies,Volume 5, Number 2 (July, 2008)

• Alan Cholodenko, The ‘ABCs’ of B, Or: To Be and Not to Be B', Film-Philosophy, Vol 14, No 2 (2010)

• Alan Cholodenko, 'The Nutty Universe of Animation, The “Discipline” of All “Disciplines”, And That’s Not All, Folks!', International Journal of Baudrillard Studies, Volume 3, Number 1 (January 2006)

• Alan Cholodenko, '“OBJECTS IN MIRROR ARE CLOSER THAN THEY APPEAR”: The Virtual Reality of Jurassic Park and Jean Baudrillard', International Journal of Baudrillard Studies, Volume 2, Number 1 (January 2005) 

• Alan Cholodenko, '“The Borders of Our Lives”: Frederick Wiseman, Jean Baudrillard, And The Question of The Documentary', International Journal of Baudrillard Studies, Volume 1, Number 2 (July 2004) 

• Alan Cholodenko, '(The) Death (of) the Animator, or: The Felicity of Felix - Part II: A Difficulty in the Path of Animation Studies', Animation Studies – Vol.2, 2007

• Alan Cholodenko, 'The Spectre in the Screen', Animation Studies – Vol.3, 2008

• David B. Clarke, Dreams Rise in Darkness: The White Magic of Cinema', Film-Philosophy, Vol 14, No 2 (2010)

• Gerry Coulter, 'Jean Baudrillard and Cinema: The Problems of Technology, Realism and History', Film-Philosophy, Vol 14, No 2 (2010)

• Anton Escher, 'The Geography of Cinema - A Cinematic World', Erdkunde, Band 60/2006

• Scott Forsyth, 'Marxist Film Theory: From the Barricades to Postmodernism' , The Socialist Register, 1997

• Anne Friedberg, 'Urban mobility and cinematic visuality: the screens of Los Angeles – endless cinema or private telematics', Journal of Visual Culture, Vol 1(2), 2002: 183-204

• John Frow, 'Australian Cultural Studies: Theory Story, History', Australian Humanities Review, Issue 37, December 2005

• Michael Hemmingson, 'Auto/Ethnography and Tinsel Town: Nathaniel Kohn's Pursuing Hollywood and How it Relates to My Own Experiences Chasing the Dream of Creating Culture Through Cinema', Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research,  Vol 9, No 3 (2008)

• Mark Hobart, 'Just Talk? Anthropological Reflections on the Object of Media Studies in Indonesia', A.J.S.S. 34:3 (492–519)

• Mark Hobart, 'The Subject of the Subject: Philosophical background to a critical reconsideration of the problems in studying non-Western media', Position Paper to the Workshop on The Subject of the Subject in Media Studies, Media Research Group SOAS, 2nd. December 1997

• Russell J.A. Kilbourn, 'Re-Writing "Reality": Reading The Matrix', Canadian Journal of Film Studies, 9.2, Fall 2000, pp 43-54

• Marc J. LaFountain, 'Obscene Ethics: A Baudrillardian View of Spurlock’s Super Size Me', International Journal of Baudrillard Studies, Volume 5, Number 2 (July, 2008) 

• Jon Lindblom, 'Toward an Ontology of the Image: Deleuze and the Aura of Simulation', Movement Editions, 2010

• Scott A. Lukas, 'Fragments of The World Thinking Me, Or How The Digital Facilitates Human Separation', International Journal of Baudrillard Studies, Volume 3, Number 2 (July 2006)

• Chris Lukinbeal, 'The map that precedes the territory: An introduction to essays in cinematic geography', GeoJournal 59: 247–251, 2004

• Christopher Macallister, 'The Changing British Sensibility Towards War and the Reimagining of World War Two in the Cinema', War, Virtual War and the Challenges to Communities Oxford 16th – 18th July 2002

• Russell Manning, 'Taking Baudrillard to the Movies (To Talk About Death)', International Journal of Baudrillard Studies, Volume 7, Number 1 (January, 2010)

• Erik Marshall, 'Fatal Strategies and Film Studies', Film-Philosophy, Vol. 6 No. 44, November 2002

• William Merrin, 'Speculating to the Death: Machinic Integration and Transformation Within A Virtualized Reality', International Journal of Baudrillard Studies, Volume 4, Number 2 (July, 2007)

• William Merrin, 'Total Screen: 9/11 and the Gulf War Reloaded',International Journal of Baudrillard Studies,  Volume 2, Number 2 (July 2005)

• Paula Murphy, 'The Simulacra of Global Conflict', International Journal of Baudrillard Studies, Volume 5, Number 2 (July, 2008)

• Pamela Nilan, 'Applying Semiotic Analysis to Social Data in Media Studies', Jurnal Komunikasi Massa Vol. 1, No. 1, Juli 2007, 60-74

• Benjamin Noys, 'Crimes of the Near Future: Baudrillard / Ballard', International Journal of Baudrillard Studies, Volume 5, Number 1 (January, 2008) 

• William Pawlett and Meena Dhanda, 'The Shared Destiny of the Radically Other: A Reading of  The Wizard of Oz', Film-Philosophy, Vol 14, No 2 (2010)

• Richard Pope, 'Baudrillard’s Simulacrum:  Of War, Terror, and Obituaries', International Journal of Baudrillard Studies, Volume 4, Number 3 (October, 2007)

• James Rovira, 'Subverting the Mechanisms of Control: Baudrillard, The Matrix Trilogy, and the Future of Religion', International Journal of Baudrillard Studies, Volume 2, Number 2 (July 2005)

• Kenneth Rufo, 'Obscenity with a View: Baudrillard's  Revenge of the Crystal and Film Studies', Film-Philosophy, Vol. 6 No. 43, November 2002

• Marita Ryan, 'Answering the Question: “What is Intermission?” – An Exploration of Intermission as a Postmodern Film', International Journal of Baudrillard Studies, Volume 5, Number 1 (January, 2008) 

• Alan N. Shapiro, 'Baudrillard and Trek-nology (Or Everything I Know I Learned From Watching Star Trek and Reading Jean Baudrillard)', International Journal of Baudrillard Studies, Volume 2, Number 2 (July 2005) 

• Mark Shiel, 'Cinema and the City in History and Theory', Cinema and the City (Oxford: Blackwell, 2001)

• Jonathan Smith, Jean Baudrillard’s Philosophy of Magic', International Journal of Baudrillard Studies, Volume 4, Number 2 (July, 2007)

• Richard G. Smith, 'Lights, Camera, Action: Baudrillard and the Performance of Representations', International Journal of Baudrillard Studies, Volume 2, Number 1 (January 2005)

• Paul Taylor, 'Baudrillard's Resistance To the Ob-Scene As the Mis-en-scene (Or, Refusing to Think Like a Lap-Dancer’s Client)', International Journal of Baudrillard Studies, Volume 5, Number 2 (July, 2008)

• Paul A. Taylor, 'The Pornographic Barbarism of the Self-Reflecting Sign', International Journal of Baudrillard Studies, Volume 4, Number 1 (January 2007)

• Kim Toffoletti and Victoria Grace, 'Terminal Indifference: The Hollywood War Film Post-September 11', Film-Philosophy, Vol 14, No 2 (2010)

• Hunter Vaughan, 'The Paradox of Film: An Industry of Sex, a Form of Seduction (Notes on JeanBaudrillard’s  Seduction  and the Cinema)', Film-Philosophy, Vol 14, No 2 (2010)