{"id":1578,"date":"2015-08-13T16:14:33","date_gmt":"2015-08-13T20:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=1578"},"modified":"2026-03-04T14:03:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T19:03:36","slug":"deborah-l-jaramillo","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/profile\/deborah-l-jaramillo\/","title":{"rendered":"Deborah L. Jaramillo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\">Deborah Jaramillo is a professor of Film and Television Studies, and Director of Graduate Studies for the American Studies Program. Her current book project investigates the construction of death in non-fiction radio, podcasting, and television.<\/p>\n<p data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\">Dr. Jaramillo\u2019s research interests include television history, death studies, and media censorship. Her first book, <em>Ugly War, Pretty Package: How CNN and Fox News Made the Invasion of Iraq High Concept<\/em> (Indiana University Press, 2009), explores how the 2003 invasion of Iraq was packaged by cable news. Her second book, <em>The Television Code: Regulating the Screen to Safeguard the Industry<\/em> (University of Texas Press, 2018) analyzes the U.S. television industry\u2019s attempts to censor its programs and regulate its business practices in the early 1950s.<\/p>\n<p data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\">Her work appears in several edited volumes, including <em>Television: The Critical View, 7th edition<\/em>; <em>A Companion to Television, 2nd edition<\/em>; <em>Television History, The Peabody Archive, and Cultural Memory<\/em>; and <em>From Networks to Netflix: A Guide to Changing Channels<\/em>. She has also published articles in <em>Popular Communication<\/em>, <em>Television and New Media<\/em>, <em>Communication, Culture, and Critique<\/em>, <em>Critical Studies in Television<\/em>, <em>Ethnic and Racial Studies<\/em>, and <em>Journal of Radio &amp; Audio Media<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\">Her most recent publications include &#8220;Bury Him by Radio: Early Funeral Broadcasts and the Mourning of President Warren G. Harding&#8221; in <em>Resonance: The Journal of Sound and Culture<\/em> and &#8220;The Killers Speak: The Sound of Violence in David Fincher\u2019s Zodiac and Mindhunter (2017-2019)&#8221; in <em>Zodiac: Cinema of Investigation and (Mis)interpretation<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\">A two-time Ford Fellow, she is an associate editor of Television and New Media, a research associate for the National Recording Preservation Board\u2019s Radio Preservation Task Force, and a board member of the Texas Archive of the Moving Image.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Jaramillo teaches the following courses in the Film and Television Studies program: Television Studies, Death and TV, True Crime, Broadcasting Horror, Uncensored TV, and TV Comedy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9776,"template":"","interest":[],"discipline-type":[1427],"profile-type":[1463,1462],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/1578"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9776"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/1578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45386,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/1578\/revisions\/45386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"interest","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/interest?post=1578"},{"taxonomy":"discipline-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/discipline-type?post=1578"},{"taxonomy":"profile-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile-type?post=1578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}