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Of Lesbians and Werewolves: The Queer Intersectionality of Good Manners

On its face, the Brazilian film Good Manners appears as a formalist exercise in genre hybridity. This article explores the…
Brazilian Cinema Queer Cinema
June 1, 2025

The Short-Form Scripted Serial Drama

Full title: The Short-Form Scripted Serial Drama: The Novice Showrunner’s New Opportunity  Abstract: This chapter will define some of the…
Television
July 28, 2023

Effects of Exposure to an Entertainment-Based Genetic Testing Narrative

This study explores the effects of exposure to a reality television narrative depicting genetic testing on attitudes and intentions, looking…
October 31, 2022

Twenty Queers of Madame Satã

Bruno Guaraná reviews the significance of the Brazilian director Karim Aïnouz’s groundbreaking Madame Satã on the occasion of the film’s…
Brazilian Cinema Gender Queer Cinema Race
September 1, 2022

Game of Thrones, Tourism, and the Ethics of Adaptation

This article examines ‘adaptation-induced tourism’, a form of media-induced tourism understood to be distinct from ‘screen tourism’ or ‘literary tourism’…
August 1, 2021

“A Few Years from Now” in Western Pernambuco: Bacurau’s Vision of…

In this essay, Bruno Guaraná argues that Bacurau presents a cinematic intervention that is twofold: first, into global genre cinema,…
Brazilian Cinema Genre
December 9, 2020

Michael Haneke: Interviews

Spanning five decades and twenty-four films, director Michael Haneke’s career is one of the most significant in the history of…
June 2, 2020

Taís Araújo: The Black Helena against Brazil’s Whitening Television

Under the myth of racial democracy, Brazilian mainstream television has embraced a push toward more diverse representation, increasing in recent…
Brazilian Media Gender Race Television
October 1, 2018

The Television Code: Regulating the Screen to Safeguard the Industry

In 1952, the broadcasting industry’s trade association, the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB), sought to sanitize television content via its…
September 2, 2018

Werner Schroeter

In a four-decade-long career that generated more than forty films and numerous stage productions, Werner Schroeter became one of the…
August 2, 2018

Inspirational reality TV

The prosocial effects of lifestyle transforming reality programs on elevation and altruism: In light of recent theories of meaningful media…
November 18, 2016

The Power of Positive Action in Predicting Media Enjoyment

Exploring the Role of Participatory Behaviors Through the Lens of the Tripartite Model of Media Enjoyment: Offering an initial test…
April 28, 2015

The Wiley-Blackwell History of American Film, Vols. 1-4

Comprising over 90 essays and richly illustrated with over 200 images, the Wiley-Blackwell History of American Film provides a chronological portrait of…
December 1, 2011

A Companion to Michael Haneke

A Companion to Michael Haneke is a definitive collection of newly-commissioned work that covers Haneke’s body of work in its entirety,…
February 2, 2010

Andy Warhol’s Blow Job

This work contends that Andy Warhol’s notorious 1964 underground film, Blow Job, serves as rich allegory as well as suggestive…
February 1, 2003