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From top left, clockwise: Forever, Upload, The Good Place, and Miracle Workers. What happens to us when we die? A recent cycle of televisual
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Figure 1: “Nasty Women 3” at the Giornate del Cinema Muto (Pordenone, Italy). For the last two years, Laura Horak, Elif Rongen-Kaynakçi and I
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A promotional image from Starstruck centers Rose Matafeo amidst a London street, while Nikesh Patel’s star image hangs aside her. Gender and genre
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Amazon Fire TV lets parents check their baby monitor When we think of the everyday technologies threatening our privacy at home, we might first think
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Figure 1: A classic screen siren distracts the protagonist in The Matrix (1999) In my first column for Flow, I discussed how the Magic Mike
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The Projections series at the Exterior of the Broadway The Broadway Centre Cinemas in Salt Lake City, Utah were shuttered from March 13, 2020 to
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Image 1. Queen Charlotte performed by Guyanese-British actor Golda Rosheuvel. Like 193 million other viewers, I binged the gloriously extravagant
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Behind the scenes shot of director Chase Joynt and actor Zachary Drucker in Framing Agnes. There’s a moment in the documentary Framing Agnes
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Jane Campion and Ari Wegner making The Power of the Dog. By the time this piece is published, Jane Campion may be the third woman awarded the Best
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The Mario Bros. before they left the plumbing business. In 2017, Mario’s Japanese-language profile disclosed a shocking revelation—“Mario is
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Rapper and alt Black girl Jungle Pussy. “We know that art and aesthetics of Black girls, Black femmes, and Black women create movement from which
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The Wonder Years (ABC, 2021-present) In the second part of my discussion of Black Lives Matter television (BLM TV), I focus on the reboot of The
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Figure 1: And Just Like That… 12 years later It must have been during early or late 1999 when I caught the first season of Sex and the City (HBO,
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On the back cover of Floating, words are positioned horizontally rather than vertically. The empire-building early-cable channel MTV, a marketing
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Claudia Morgan and Les Damon record an episode of The Adventures of the Abbotts. If people remember detecting wives at all – and that’s a big if