Andaluna Borcila
Biographic Data
| ID | 4794988 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andaluna Borcila |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andaluna |
| FAMILY NAME | Borcila |
| SIGNATURE | BORCILA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Purdue University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
American Representations of Post-Communism
With the televised events of 1989, territories of Eastern and Central Europe that had been marked as impenetrable and inaccessible to the Western gaze exploded into visibility. As the narratives of the Cold War crumbled, new narratives emerged and new geographies were produced on and by American television. Using an understudied archive of American news broadcasts, and tracing their flashes and echoes through travel guides and narratives of retur…
Accessing the trauma of communism
This article centres on representations of Romanian women in the on-site reports filmed by American news crews in the days and weeks following the Romanian revolution. Around these representations, the article traces Romania's journey into televisibility on American television news, from an initially inaccessible site of falling communism to an overexposed site of post-communist trauma. Reports from abortion clinics were the first encounters with…
Nationalizing the Olympics Around and Away from “Vulnerable” Bodies of Women
This article examines print media responses to the 1996 NBC coverage of the Olympic Games and the actual coverage of the women’s gymnastics competition. Whereas print media critics of the coverage emphasize NBC’s feminization of the Olympics, which they imagine as a unique televisual event, this article underscores the nationalizing function of the narratives (stories of personal trauma). By focusing on the production of women gymnasts as sites o…
Nationalizing the Olympics Around and Away from “Vulnerable” Bodies of Women
This article examines print media responses to the 1996 NBC coverage of the Olympic Games and the actual coverage of the women’s gymnastics competition. Whereas print media critics of the coverage emphasize NBC’s feminization of the Olympics, which they imagine as a unique televisual event, this article underscores the nationalizing function of the narratives (stories of personal trauma). By focusing on the production of women gymnasts as sites o…
Accessing the trauma of communism
This article centres on representations of Romanian women in the on-site reports filmed by American news crews in the days and weeks following the Romanian revolution. Around these representations, the article traces Romania's journey into televisibility on American television news, from an initially inaccessible site of falling communism to an overexposed site of post-communist trauma. Reports from abortion clinics were the first encounters with…
Nationalizing the Olympics Around and Away from “Vulnerable” Bodies of Women
This article examines print media responses to the 1996 NBC coverage of the Olympic Games and the actual coverage of the women’s gymnastics competition. Whereas print media critics of the coverage emphasize NBC’s feminization of the Olympics, which they imagine as a unique televisual event, this article underscores the nationalizing function of the narratives (stories of personal trauma). By focusing on the production of women gymnasts as sites o…
Accessing the trauma of communism
This article centres on representations of Romanian women in the on-site reports filmed by American news crews in the days and weeks following the Romanian revolution. Around these representations, the article traces Romania's journey into televisibility on American television news, from an initially inaccessible site of falling communism to an overexposed site of post-communist trauma. Reports from abortion clinics were the first encounters with…
American Representations of Post-Communism
With the televised events of 1989, territories of Eastern and Central Europe that had been marked as impenetrable and inaccessible to the Western gaze exploded into visibility. As the narratives of the Cold War crumbled, new narratives emerged and new geographies were produced on and by American television. Using an understudied archive of American news broadcasts, and tracing their flashes and echoes through travel guides and narratives of retur…
History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Communism (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Media Studies and Communication (2 works) · Politics (2 works)