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SUMMARY:Shawna Kidman\, “The Infrastructure of the U.S. Comic Book Industry and the Long History of Superheroes in Hollywood”
DESCRIPTION:Shawna Kidman\, Assistant Professor\, University of California San Diego\nThis talk will discuss the history of the American comic book industry during the 20th century. This medium has dominated the film and television landscape in recent years\, and has come to define contemporary corporate transmedia production. But before moving to the center of mainstream popular culture\, comic books spent half a century wielding their influence from the margins and in-between spaces of the entertainment business. Dr. Kidman will argue that the best way to understand the immense influence of this relatively small business is through a political economic analysis. Specifically\, she will discuss industrial infrastructure—the aspects of our media environment that often lack public visibility\, including distribution\, copyright and contract law\, and financing. These systems channeled the industry’s growth and ultimately gave the medium its shape. Accordingly\, a closer look at the everyday intricacies of the business yields a very different kind of narrative about what comic books are and how they came to be. It also helps explain why comic books and comic book strategies became so central to media production in the 21st century\, and why these trends are likely to persist well into the future. \nShawna Kidman is an Assistant Professor of Communication at UC San Diego where she teaches courses in media studies. Her research on the media industries has been published in Velvet Light Trap\, the International Journal of Learning and Media\, and the International Journal of Communication. She is the author of Comic Books Incorporated: How the Business of Comics Became the Business of Hollywood (UC Press\, 2019)\, a history of the U.S. comic book industry’s convergence with the film and television business. Before earning her PhD in Critical Media Studies at USC\, Shawna worked in the media business\, including as a creative executive at DC Comics.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/shawna-kidman-superheroes-hollywood/
LOCATION:MIT Building E15\, Room 318 (Common Area)\, 20 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
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SUMMARY:POSTPONED UNTIL SPRING 2021: Meghan Sutherland\, “Variety\, Genealogy\, History: On the Politics of Media Convergence”
DESCRIPTION:Meghan SutherlandAssociate Professor of Cinema and Visual StudiesUniversity of Toronto\nThis talk illuminates a bond between the variety form\, the concept of genealogy\, and the colonial logics of racial\, ethnic and sexual differentiation that have defined the project of modern liberalism as one of social and technological development. In doing so\, it aims to recast the phenomenon of “media convergence” as a matter of aesthetic form that is not only fundamental to the biopolitical imaginary of liberalism and neoliberalism\, but is fundamental as well to the idea of governmental “technology” on which the latter is predicated–a scenario that stands to change how we think about the political entanglement of form and technology more broadly. \nMeghan Sutherland is Associate Professor of Cinema and Visual Studies at the University of Toronto and a founding co-editor of the online journal World Picture. She is also the author of The Flip Wilson Show (Wayne State University Press\, 2008) and a forthcoming book called Variety: The Extra Aesthetic and the Constitution of Modern Media (Duke University Press)\, and her essays on the intersections between media\, philosophy and politics have appeared in a range of different journals and edited volumes.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/meghan-sutherland-variety-genealogy-history-on-the-politics-of-media-convergence/
LOCATION:MIT Building E15\, Room 318 (Common Area)\, 20 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED: Artificial Intelligence and Ethics
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URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/artificial-intelligence-and-ethics/
LOCATION:MIT Building 4\, Room 237\, 182 Memorial Drive (Rear)\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
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