Curt Hersey
Biographic Data
| ID | 6094667 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Curt Hersey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Curt |
| FAMILY NAME | Hersey |
| SIGNATURE | HERSEY C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Berry College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
“This Is What's Real”
three decades ago, a group of black-directed films began to appear in theaters, addressing issues of over-policing and social justice. These “hood films,” as they came to be called, were directed almost exclusively by young African American men and challenged media discourses about black lives, the inner city, and the causes of poverty and violence. From 1991 to 1995, over twenty films were released as part of the hood-film cycle. The genre focus…
NBC’s That Was The Week That Was as Proto-News Parody in the Network Era
In the heyday of the network television era, NBC launched an American version of the successful British satire show That Was the Week That Was (TW3). The show debuted to strong reviews and positive audience response, but initial goodwill quickly turned to pointed critiques and lackluster ratings. As one of the first network primetime programs to devote part of its format to news parody, TW3 (1963–65) fought to create a marketable send up of broad…
Script(ing) Treatment
American films and television programs increasingly feature characters recovering from addiction. These representations are based on previous depictions and help create a cultural understanding of addicts. This study analyzes the depiction of addicts and addiction in three Hollywood films whose narratives are largely situated within a treatment center: Clean and Sober (1988), When a Man Loves a Woman (1994), and 28 Days (2000). It concludes that …
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Script(ing) Treatment
American films and television programs increasingly feature characters recovering from addiction. These representations are based on previous depictions and help create a cultural understanding of addicts. This study analyzes the depiction of addicts and addiction in three Hollywood films whose narratives are largely situated within a treatment center: Clean and Sober (1988), When a Man Loves a Woman (1994), and 28 Days (2000). It concludes that …
NBC’s That Was The Week That Was as Proto-News Parody in the Network Era
In the heyday of the network television era, NBC launched an American version of the successful British satire show That Was the Week That Was (TW3). The show debuted to strong reviews and positive audience response, but initial goodwill quickly turned to pointed critiques and lackluster ratings. As one of the first network primetime programs to devote part of its format to news parody, TW3 (1963–65) fought to create a marketable send up of broad…
“This Is What's Real”
three decades ago, a group of black-directed films began to appear in theaters, addressing issues of over-policing and social justice. These “hood films,” as they came to be called, were directed almost exclusively by young African American men and challenged media discourses about black lives, the inner city, and the causes of poverty and violence. From 1991 to 1995, over twenty films were released as part of the hood-film cycle. The genre focus…
Art (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art history (2 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (2 works) · Hollywood (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Media studies (2 works) · Movie theater (2 works)