On Thursday, March 25, at 6:30 EST, I’ll be delivering a lecture for the Boston Cinema and Media Seminar. I was invited by Bentley University, one of the member institutions of the Seminar, to talk about my border tunnels book project. Bentley Assistant Professor Jim Miranda will be the respondent. To receive the zoom meetingContinue reading “Televisual Tunnels and the Publics of the U.S.-Mexico Border”
Category Archives: Presentations
The Poetics and Politics of Streaming
On October 28, 2020, I participated on a round table on “The Poetics and Politics of Streaming” hosted by the Film Studies Department at King’s College London. Appropriately for the topic, and given the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the round table was hosted online via Microsoft Teams. The other participants in the event were Laura U.Continue reading “The Poetics and Politics of Streaming”
Video Cultures, Communities, and Circulation in the 21st Century
On February 1998, the New York Times decreed that Blockbuster Video had established itself as the main video rental outlet, pushing all other independent video retailers into marginal and niche markets. Fifteen years later, the closure of the last Blockbuster locations still in operation heralded the end of an era, where online streaming services hadContinue reading “Video Cultures, Communities, and Circulation in the 21st Century”
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