Christine Scodari
Biographic Data
| ID | 4498904 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christine Scodari |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christine |
| FAMILY NAME | Scodari |
| SIGNATURE | SCODARI C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Florida Atlantic University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Unfamiliar Races in Untimely Places
Alternate Roots
For over two decades, the media have chronicled escalating participation in family history prompted by, among other things, the aging of Baby Boomers and Generation Xers, the growing availability of digital genealogy sites and archives, and a burgeoning interest in racial and ethnic history and culture of the sort inspired by the airing of the historical drama miniseries Roots forty years ago. Alternate Roots is the first book to critically addre…
Alternate Roots
When Markers Meet Marketing
The essay explores issues pertaining to genetics vs. culture in understandings of kinship, hybridity as a disruptor of essentialist conceptions of race, the fetishization of ethnicity and culture, racist misuses of genetic science, processes of racialization, and counter-hegemonic resistance. Thirty- and sixty-second television advertisements airing in the U.S. from the 23andMe and AncestryDNA genetic genealogy testing services are analyzed in th…
Roots, Representation, and Resistance? Family History Media & Culture through a Critical Lens
Nyota Uhura is Not a White Girl”
This essay examines the online debate surrounding representation of the Black/African character of Lt. Uhura in the 2009 prequel film, Star Trek. Some fans, particularly those viewing the film from a gender/race intersection, applauded her portrayal, while others, including many “slashers” who espouse a homoerotic reading of classic Trek from an ostensible gender/sexuality standpoint, disapproved—especially of Uhura's romantic storyline. Virtual …
Frozen in Time
In the opening scenes of Douglas Sirk’s 1955 melodrama All That Heaven Allows (Hunter & Sirk, 1955), the precocious, college-aged daughter of the movie’s heroine describes the ancient Egyptian custom of “walling up the widow alive in the funeral chambers of her dead husband along with his other possessions, the theory being that she was a possession, too.” When she adds that “it doesn’t happen any more,” her widowed mother, played by Jane Wyman, …
Resistance Re-Examined
Studies of gender, science fiction television, and fan culture have often asserted that female fans resist patriarchy by negotiating cultural texts through such practices as fan fiction and interactive deliberation. This analysis holds that specific motivation and context must be considered to advance such a claim, especially in light of undercurrents of misogyny contributing to such phenomena as "slash" fan fiction authored by women and dealing …
No Politics Here”
“Virtual” ethnographic investigation of soap opera “cyberfan” discussion groups refutes claims of resistive public space, finding that industry infiltration, “netiquette,” and other factors construct these Internet forums as sites of “escape” rather than politics. Moreover, “polyvalent” readings tend to reproduce the demographics strategy of advertisers—a strategy which flatters young female audiences at the expense of their older counterparts
Possession, attraction, and the thrill of the chase
This study examines articulations of “egalitarian”; courtship in romantic comedy films of the 1930s and 1940s and recent television series resurrecting their conventions. It gauges the extent to which such texts are open to a negotiated reading that re‐contextualizes heterosexual monogamy in anarchic rather than patriarchal terms. The television versions constrain this negotiated reading due to the dissemination of culturally masculine assumption…
Johnny got his gun
(1994). Johnny got his gun: Wartime songs of pacifism, patriotism and life style in 20th‐century American culture. Popular Music and Society: Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 1-17
Operation Desert Storm as “Wargames”
No Politics Here”
“Virtual” ethnographic investigation of soap opera “cyberfan” discussion groups refutes claims of resistive public space, finding that industry infiltration, “netiquette,” and other factors construct these Internet forums as sites of “escape” rather than politics. Moreover, “polyvalent” readings tend to reproduce the demographics strategy of advertisers—a strategy which flatters young female audiences at the expense of their older counterparts
Resistance Re-Examined
Studies of gender, science fiction television, and fan culture have often asserted that female fans resist patriarchy by negotiating cultural texts through such practices as fan fiction and interactive deliberation. This analysis holds that specific motivation and context must be considered to advance such a claim, especially in light of undercurrents of misogyny contributing to such phenomena as "slash" fan fiction authored by women and dealing …
Roots, Representation, and Resistance? Family History Media & Culture through a Critical Lens
Unfamiliar Races in Untimely Places
When Markers Meet Marketing
The essay explores issues pertaining to genetics vs. culture in understandings of kinship, hybridity as a disruptor of essentialist conceptions of race, the fetishization of ethnicity and culture, racist misuses of genetic science, processes of racialization, and counter-hegemonic resistance. Thirty- and sixty-second television advertisements airing in the U.S. from the 23andMe and AncestryDNA genetic genealogy testing services are analyzed in th…
Operation Desert Storm as “Wargames”
Johnny got his gun
(1994). Johnny got his gun: Wartime songs of pacifism, patriotism and life style in 20th‐century American culture. Popular Music and Society: Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 1-17
Possession, attraction, and the thrill of the chase
This study examines articulations of “egalitarian”; courtship in romantic comedy films of the 1930s and 1940s and recent television series resurrecting their conventions. It gauges the extent to which such texts are open to a negotiated reading that re‐contextualizes heterosexual monogamy in anarchic rather than patriarchal terms. The television versions constrain this negotiated reading due to the dissemination of culturally masculine assumption…
No Politics Here”
“Virtual” ethnographic investigation of soap opera “cyberfan” discussion groups refutes claims of resistive public space, finding that industry infiltration, “netiquette,” and other factors construct these Internet forums as sites of “escape” rather than politics. Moreover, “polyvalent” readings tend to reproduce the demographics strategy of advertisers—a strategy which flatters young female audiences at the expense of their older counterparts
Resistance Re-Examined
Studies of gender, science fiction television, and fan culture have often asserted that female fans resist patriarchy by negotiating cultural texts through such practices as fan fiction and interactive deliberation. This analysis holds that specific motivation and context must be considered to advance such a claim, especially in light of undercurrents of misogyny contributing to such phenomena as "slash" fan fiction authored by women and dealing …
Frozen in Time
In the opening scenes of Douglas Sirk’s 1955 melodrama All That Heaven Allows (Hunter & Sirk, 1955), the precocious, college-aged daughter of the movie’s heroine describes the ancient Egyptian custom of “walling up the widow alive in the funeral chambers of her dead husband along with his other possessions, the theory being that she was a possession, too.” When she adds that “it doesn’t happen any more,” her widowed mother, played by Jane Wyman, …
Nyota Uhura is Not a White Girl”
This essay examines the online debate surrounding representation of the Black/African character of Lt. Uhura in the 2009 prequel film, Star Trek. Some fans, particularly those viewing the film from a gender/race intersection, applauded her portrayal, while others, including many “slashers” who espouse a homoerotic reading of classic Trek from an ostensible gender/sexuality standpoint, disapproved—especially of Uhura's romantic storyline. Virtual …
Roots, Representation, and Resistance? Family History Media & Culture through a Critical Lens
When Markers Meet Marketing
The essay explores issues pertaining to genetics vs. culture in understandings of kinship, hybridity as a disruptor of essentialist conceptions of race, the fetishization of ethnicity and culture, racist misuses of genetic science, processes of racialization, and counter-hegemonic resistance. Thirty- and sixty-second television advertisements airing in the U.S. from the 23andMe and AncestryDNA genetic genealogy testing services are analyzed in th…
Alternate Roots
For over two decades, the media have chronicled escalating participation in family history prompted by, among other things, the aging of Baby Boomers and Generation Xers, the growing availability of digital genealogy sites and archives, and a burgeoning interest in racial and ethnic history and culture of the sort inspired by the airing of the historical drama miniseries Roots forty years ago. Alternate Roots is the first book to critically addre…
Alternate Roots
Unfamiliar Races in Untimely Places
Sociology (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Media studies (7 works) · Art (6 works) · History (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Anthropology (5 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (5 works) · Literature (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works)