Kit Hughes
Biographic Data
| ID | 3629641 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kit Hughes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kit |
| FAMILY NAME | Hughes |
| SIGNATURE | HUGHES K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Colorado State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Consumer Survival Kit
Maryland Public Television’s Consumer Survival Kit (Maryland, 1973–1974; national PBS, 1975–1979) bills itself as an aid to the average consumer looking to save money, avoid bad investments, and know when to sue. As a show that emerged as an uncontroversial mainstay in the highly politicized context of Nixon’s early 1970s campaign against PBS, the lessons CSK teaches – discipline, keen recognition of one’s own individualized goals and values, and…
The True Meaning of Christmas (at Hallmark)
The small business owner (SBO) is one of the most cherished figures in U.S. politics, sitting atop a longstanding, inequitable, and cruel hierarchy of deservingness that animates U.S. economic ideology and policy. To explore how common ideas regarding the value and function of SBOs are shaped and circulated through popular culture, this article examines Hallmark’s 2022 slate of Holiday films as a high-profile and popular site of the figure’s recu…
Silicon Valley's Team
This essay examines how the Golden State Warriors' multimedia empire invites viewers to embrace Silicon Valley–driven transformations of space and body that appropriate value generated by Black, Brown, and working-class communities for the benefit of a wealthy, white ownership class. These transformations form part of the tech industry's imperializing adventures in bodily and societal improvement through the intertwined processes of disruption, t…
Developing the student-citizen of finance
This article examines seven films produced as part of a mid-century NYSE campaign to increase shareholdership and reconfigure the Exchange’s symbolic place within American life. Seen by millions of people in theatrical and nontheatrical venues as well as on television, the NYSE campaign showcases the sponsored film – one of our most prolific, but least studied categories of cinema – in its golden period. Sponsored films masquerading as educationa…
Disposable
When television was introduced to the American public at the New York World's Fair, its prerecorded content was dominated by sponsored film. These programs, designed to achieve goals ranging from securing participation in public health campaigns to cultivating viewer goodwill, were produced by diverse civic, governmental, educational, and industrial institutions. For many fairgoers being introduced to television, the marvel of the new medium woul…
Record/Film/Book/Interactive TV
Although home video scholars often position the EVR (CBS’s Electronic Video Recording) as a failure, I argue that it is best understood as a threshold format that articulated new possibilities for television by linking it to existing but divergent technologies and practices: the phonograph, film cartridges, print, and interactivity. As developed through original document research built from the Motorola archives, newspapers, biographies, promotio…
Work/place’ media
Without suggesting a break from ongoing research into historical examples of corporate and industrial media, this article points towards additional and complementary avenues of research. It considers the role of (what we might call) the audience across contemporary and historical media workplace media practices by offering a framework for thinking through the cultural meanings embedded within labor-related media by users. Rather than focusing aud…
Inherent Vice
Inherent Vice: bootleg histories of videotape and copyright LUCAS HILDERBRAND Durham, NC, Duke University Press, 2009 xxiii+320 pp., illus., bibliography and index, $24.95 (paper), $89.95 (cloth) W
Fight Pictures
Work/place’ media
Without suggesting a break from ongoing research into historical examples of corporate and industrial media, this article points towards additional and complementary avenues of research. It considers the role of (what we might call) the audience across contemporary and historical media workplace media practices by offering a framework for thinking through the cultural meanings embedded within labor-related media by users. Rather than focusing aud…
Fight Pictures
Inherent Vice
Inherent Vice: bootleg histories of videotape and copyright LUCAS HILDERBRAND Durham, NC, Duke University Press, 2009 xxiii+320 pp., illus., bibliography and index, $24.95 (paper), $89.95 (cloth) W
Work/place’ media
Without suggesting a break from ongoing research into historical examples of corporate and industrial media, this article points towards additional and complementary avenues of research. It considers the role of (what we might call) the audience across contemporary and historical media workplace media practices by offering a framework for thinking through the cultural meanings embedded within labor-related media by users. Rather than focusing aud…
Record/Film/Book/Interactive TV
Although home video scholars often position the EVR (CBS’s Electronic Video Recording) as a failure, I argue that it is best understood as a threshold format that articulated new possibilities for television by linking it to existing but divergent technologies and practices: the phonograph, film cartridges, print, and interactivity. As developed through original document research built from the Motorola archives, newspapers, biographies, promotio…
Disposable
When television was introduced to the American public at the New York World's Fair, its prerecorded content was dominated by sponsored film. These programs, designed to achieve goals ranging from securing participation in public health campaigns to cultivating viewer goodwill, were produced by diverse civic, governmental, educational, and industrial institutions. For many fairgoers being introduced to television, the marvel of the new medium woul…
Developing the student-citizen of finance
This article examines seven films produced as part of a mid-century NYSE campaign to increase shareholdership and reconfigure the Exchange’s symbolic place within American life. Seen by millions of people in theatrical and nontheatrical venues as well as on television, the NYSE campaign showcases the sponsored film – one of our most prolific, but least studied categories of cinema – in its golden period. Sponsored films masquerading as educationa…
Silicon Valley's Team
This essay examines how the Golden State Warriors' multimedia empire invites viewers to embrace Silicon Valley–driven transformations of space and body that appropriate value generated by Black, Brown, and working-class communities for the benefit of a wealthy, white ownership class. These transformations form part of the tech industry's imperializing adventures in bodily and societal improvement through the intertwined processes of disruption, t…
Consumer Survival Kit
Maryland Public Television’s Consumer Survival Kit (Maryland, 1973–1974; national PBS, 1975–1979) bills itself as an aid to the average consumer looking to save money, avoid bad investments, and know when to sue. As a show that emerged as an uncontroversial mainstay in the highly politicized context of Nixon’s early 1970s campaign against PBS, the lessons CSK teaches – discipline, keen recognition of one’s own individualized goals and values, and…
The True Meaning of Christmas (at Hallmark)
The small business owner (SBO) is one of the most cherished figures in U.S. politics, sitting atop a longstanding, inequitable, and cruel hierarchy of deservingness that animates U.S. economic ideology and policy. To explore how common ideas regarding the value and function of SBOs are shaped and circulated through popular culture, this article examines Hallmark’s 2022 slate of Holiday films as a high-profile and popular site of the figure’s recu…
Sociology (7 works) · Media studies (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Media Studies and Communication (4 works) · Public relations (4 works) · Economics (3 works) · History (3 works)