Dana Heller
Biographic Data
| ID | 3605182 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dana Heller |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dana |
| FAMILY NAME | Heller |
| SIGNATURE | HELLER D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Old Dominion University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
“Russian body and soul”
This chapter considers t.A.T.u&s;.s Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) performance as a productive flashpoint of East-West misreading and failed translation that might account for the duo&s;s very different reception in Russia and the West. It also highlights some of the ways in which post-Soviet appropriations of international pop styles wittingly or unwittingly mock the moral pieties and hypocrisy of Western democratic societies while coyly assertin…
Visibility and Its Discontents
This review essay considers three recent publications that collectively demonstrate developments in queer television studies. According to the author, these works provide circumspect progress narratives, tempered by awareness that LGBTQ visibility does not exist in any historical congruity with LGBTQ social and political realities. Taken together, these publications suggest that LGBTQ studies and television studies can make odd bedmates, as schol…
Intelligent Self-Design
Out for life
‘I'm Jackie Warner and this is my world. It's a world of hard bodies and beautiful faces.’ (Work Out 2006, 101) With this seductive voiceover, Bravo introduced Work Out , a new reality series based
Contradiction as a Form of Contractual Incompleteness
A simple model is presented, in which contradictory instructions \nare viewed as a type of contract incompleteness. The model provides \na complexity-based rationale for contradictory instructions. If there \nare complexity bounds on the contract, there may be an incentive to \nintroduce contradictions, leaving for another agent the task of interpreting them. The optimal amount of contradictions depends on the \ncomplexity bound, the conflict of …
Makeover Television
With the explosion of reality television onto screens and schedules worldwide, this timely and original book explores makeover tv, the ubiquitous reality format that has received little critical attention to date. Top writers and scholars take discussion of reality tv to the next level with lively examination of a wide range of contemporary makeover shows, such as “Extreme Makeover”, “The Swan”, “Faking It”, “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy”, and …
T.A.T.u. You! Russia, the global politics of Eurovision, and lesbian pop
The author argues that the success of the Russian pop duo, t.A.T.u., and in particular their participation in the 2003 Eurovision Song Contest, is revealing of the multiple and contradictory ways in which Russia is currently engaging with concepts of the national and the international. Specifically, the essay considers t.A.T.u.’s performance of faux-lesbian pop eroticism as a productive flashpoint of East-West misreading and failed translation th…
The Great American Makeover
The Great American Makeover is a collection of essays that explore the American makeover mythos that has been recently repackaged in the form of popular makeover television programs such as Extreme Ma
A passion for extremes
This article examines images of Russians in Hollywood film from 1939 to 1990, with a focus on romantic narratives depicting Russians and Americans in love. The article traces a pattern of attachment to Russia as a trope that helps reveal the changing and contradictory contours of American myths of nationhood. The author argues that films such as Ninotchka, Moscow on the Hudson and The Russia House refashion such myths by rhetorically orchestratin…
How many lesbians does it take to screw in a light bulb
This paper explores how humor reveals shared aspects of a culture of lesbian communities in the US. For lesbians, jokes and other forms of humor are an active, narrative means of self-construction and community imagining that help lesbians negotiate their positions both inside and outside mainstream culture. Whether consciously or unconsciously, much of lesbian humor challenges the dominant culture by rejecting its definitions of and presuppositi…
Russian “Sitkom” Adaptation
The author examines the problem of adapting the situation comedy to the post-Soviet Russian cultural idiom. She considers the advantages of a historically informed approach to understanding television format adaptation. Moreover, she argues that the future of transnational television genres will be determined by cultural memory, which takes shape alongside attachments to history and engagements with changing local forms of everyday life
Found Footage
This essay reads the publicity surrounding The Blair Witch Project—the mock documentary or “found footage” of three student filmmakers trying to produce a film about the legendary witchcraft in the town Burkittsville—next to the HBO film If These Walls Could Talk 2 (1999), a narrative triptych about four generations of lesbians. Through analyzing the trope of discovery of documented images and voices of the feminist past, the essay shows how hist…
Shooting Solanas
Russian “Sitkom” Adaptation
The author examines the problem of adapting the situation comedy to the post-Soviet Russian cultural idiom. She considers the advantages of a historically informed approach to understanding television format adaptation. Moreover, she argues that the future of transnational television genres will be determined by cultural memory, which takes shape alongside attachments to history and engagements with changing local forms of everyday life
How many lesbians does it take to screw in a light bulb
This paper explores how humor reveals shared aspects of a culture of lesbian communities in the US. For lesbians, jokes and other forms of humor are an active, narrative means of self-construction and community imagining that help lesbians negotiate their positions both inside and outside mainstream culture. Whether consciously or unconsciously, much of lesbian humor challenges the dominant culture by rejecting its definitions of and presuppositi…
Shooting Solanas
Out for life
‘I'm Jackie Warner and this is my world. It's a world of hard bodies and beautiful faces.’ (Work Out 2006, 101) With this seductive voiceover, Bravo introduced Work Out , a new reality series based
Intelligent Self-Design
Contradiction as a Form of Contractual Incompleteness
A simple model is presented, in which contradictory instructions \nare viewed as a type of contract incompleteness. The model provides \na complexity-based rationale for contradictory instructions. If there \nare complexity bounds on the contract, there may be an incentive to \nintroduce contradictions, leaving for another agent the task of interpreting them. The optimal amount of contradictions depends on the \ncomplexity bound, the conflict of …
Shooting Solanas
Found Footage
This essay reads the publicity surrounding The Blair Witch Project—the mock documentary or “found footage” of three student filmmakers trying to produce a film about the legendary witchcraft in the town Burkittsville—next to the HBO film If These Walls Could Talk 2 (1999), a narrative triptych about four generations of lesbians. Through analyzing the trope of discovery of documented images and voices of the feminist past, the essay shows how hist…
How many lesbians does it take to screw in a light bulb
This paper explores how humor reveals shared aspects of a culture of lesbian communities in the US. For lesbians, jokes and other forms of humor are an active, narrative means of self-construction and community imagining that help lesbians negotiate their positions both inside and outside mainstream culture. Whether consciously or unconsciously, much of lesbian humor challenges the dominant culture by rejecting its definitions of and presuppositi…
Russian “Sitkom” Adaptation
The author examines the problem of adapting the situation comedy to the post-Soviet Russian cultural idiom. She considers the advantages of a historically informed approach to understanding television format adaptation. Moreover, she argues that the future of transnational television genres will be determined by cultural memory, which takes shape alongside attachments to history and engagements with changing local forms of everyday life
A passion for extremes
This article examines images of Russians in Hollywood film from 1939 to 1990, with a focus on romantic narratives depicting Russians and Americans in love. The article traces a pattern of attachment to Russia as a trope that helps reveal the changing and contradictory contours of American myths of nationhood. The author argues that films such as Ninotchka, Moscow on the Hudson and The Russia House refashion such myths by rhetorically orchestratin…
The Great American Makeover
The Great American Makeover is a collection of essays that explore the American makeover mythos that has been recently repackaged in the form of popular makeover television programs such as Extreme Ma
Makeover Television
With the explosion of reality television onto screens and schedules worldwide, this timely and original book explores makeover tv, the ubiquitous reality format that has received little critical attention to date. Top writers and scholars take discussion of reality tv to the next level with lively examination of a wide range of contemporary makeover shows, such as “Extreme Makeover”, “The Swan”, “Faking It”, “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy”, and …
T.A.T.u. You! Russia, the global politics of Eurovision, and lesbian pop
The author argues that the success of the Russian pop duo, t.A.T.u., and in particular their participation in the 2003 Eurovision Song Contest, is revealing of the multiple and contradictory ways in which Russia is currently engaging with concepts of the national and the international. Specifically, the essay considers t.A.T.u.’s performance of faux-lesbian pop eroticism as a productive flashpoint of East-West misreading and failed translation th…
Intelligent Self-Design
Out for life
‘I'm Jackie Warner and this is my world. It's a world of hard bodies and beautiful faces.’ (Work Out 2006, 101) With this seductive voiceover, Bravo introduced Work Out , a new reality series based
Contradiction as a Form of Contractual Incompleteness
A simple model is presented, in which contradictory instructions \nare viewed as a type of contract incompleteness. The model provides \na complexity-based rationale for contradictory instructions. If there \nare complexity bounds on the contract, there may be an incentive to \nintroduce contradictions, leaving for another agent the task of interpreting them. The optimal amount of contradictions depends on the \ncomplexity bound, the conflict of …
Visibility and Its Discontents
This review essay considers three recent publications that collectively demonstrate developments in queer television studies. According to the author, these works provide circumspect progress narratives, tempered by awareness that LGBTQ visibility does not exist in any historical congruity with LGBTQ social and political realities. Taken together, these publications suggest that LGBTQ studies and television studies can make odd bedmates, as schol…
“Russian body and soul”
This chapter considers t.A.T.u&s;.s Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) performance as a productive flashpoint of East-West misreading and failed translation that might account for the duo&s;s very different reception in Russia and the West. It also highlights some of the ways in which post-Soviet appropriations of international pop styles wittingly or unwittingly mock the moral pieties and hypocrisy of Western democratic societies while coyly assertin…
Sociology (10 works) · Art (7 works) · Media studies (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · History (4 works) · Psychology (4 works)