Peter C Kunze
Biographic Data
| ID | 644475 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter C Kunze |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter C |
| FAMILY NAME | Kunze |
| SIGNATURE | KUNZE P C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tulane University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2471-6746 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Appropriate Blackness: Standards and Practices, Creative Collaboration, and In Living Color
Using the Tamara Rawitt In Living Color Collection at the National Comedy Center, this article examines the production culture of In Living Color (Fox, 1990–1994) during its first year to explore the varied role of the network censor in shaping the show’s content. While the Fox network embraced Black creative talent to brand itself as edgy and innovative, it actively limited creator Keenen Ivory Wayans’ comedic sensibility to manage In Living Col…
The Oxford Handbook of Screen Comedy
The Oxford Handbook of Screen Comedy offers a rich sampling of the most current research and evolving trends in a vast and growing field: the study of humor in movies, television, streaming content, social media, and other forms of mediated comedy. The thirty new essays in this volume, written by leading scholars and emerging researchers, are guideposts to where the field is now and where it’s heading. By its very nature, comedy eludes definition…
The precarious promotion of progress: Diversity work, extraprofessional labor, and “woke Disney”
Live-action mistake: Disney’s Mulan (2020), failure analysis, and media industry studies
Within engineering, failure analysis identifies and assesses technical failure in the hopes of preventing it for the future. What value, if any, might this kind of critical postmortem offer media industry studies? This article considers Disney’s live-action remake of Mulan as a ‘media failure’ – a rare fumble from a global media conglomerate with a consistent record of blockbuster successes. Considering a range of factors and stakeholders, this a…
Bootlegs over Broadway: Musical theatre (re)productions, digital circulation, and the informal media economy
In recent years, the longstanding practice of producing and circulating bootleg recordings of Broadway musicals has escalated as have condemnations of this activity as detrimental to the commercial theatre industry. Drawing on work from media industry studies, this article reframes theatre bootlegging not as a detrimental practice, but as one that may have generative contributions to the theatre industry for its promotional effects. Rather than c…
Revise and resubmit: Beauty and the Beast (2017), live-action remakes, and the Disney Princess franchise
When Beauty and the Beast premiered in 1991, its self-assured protagonist was a deliberate departure from the earlier Disney princess narratives. With time, however, the film has been lumped in with the other princess films as regressive, in part because the fairy tale itself is fundamentally flawed. The decision to remake the film as a live-action spectacle opens Disney and the text to the familiar critiques, which the 2017 film alternately addr…
Belles are Singing: Broadway, Hollywood, and the Failed Gone With the Wind Musical
Despite the rich range of scholarship on the film musical, in-depth scholarly attention to the relationship between Hollywood and Broadway as symbolic centers of the U.S. culture industries has been surprisingly sparse. This article makes an intervention into this largely neglected history through an examination of David O. Selznick’s failed efforts in the early 1940s to stage Gone With the Wind as a Broadway musical. Fresh off back-to-back Acade…
We Don't Die, We Multiply”: Bebe's Kids , Hip-Hop Aesthetics, and Black Feature Animation
Bebe's Kids (dir. Bruce Smith, 1992) was the first animated feature film specifically by, about, and (arguably) for African Americans, bringing together two trends in early 1990s Hollywood: the resurgence of feature animation and the emergence of hiphop cinema. Despite its ambitious intentions, the film was a commercial and critical failure, and its attempts to bridge black cinema and animated media have largely gone neglected by scholars in thes…
Pops in Pop Culture: Fatherhood, Masculinity, and the New Man
Baby talk: An interview with Matthew Clarke
In 2013, Canadian filmmaker Matthew Clarke launched Convos with My 2-Year-Old, a web series that recreates conversations between Clarke; his wife, Leila Harrison; and their young daughter, Coco. The spin: Coco is portrayed by a full-grown man (David Milchard), complete with a five o'clock shadow. It represents one of the finest examples of growing body of web comedy about parenting and family life, which also includes ‘mommy blogs,’ BatDad Vines,…
Laughter in the digital age
Is new media still ‘new’? The earliest personal computers for the mass market – the Commodore PET and the Apple II – were released in 1977. The year 1991 saw the first website. In 1994, Netscape la
Kidding around: Children, comedy, and social media
This essay considers the implications of social media technologies – specifically, Vine – for comedy studies, childhood studies, and digital culture. Whereas the child as producer and consumer is often overlooked in the humanities, this author contends that digital technologies radically liberate children to become producers of original content that can be easily and widely circulated around the world. Through case studies of three young producer…
Out in the outback: Queering nationalism in Australian film comedy
The ‘ocker film’ was one of the defining subgenres of the revitalized Australian cinema of the 1970s. Characterized by bawdy humor and roguish escapades, these picaresque films satirically perpetuated an image of folksy Australian masculinity that countered and antagonized a queered image of British masculinity. To this end, these popular comedies rebuked the lingering British cultural influence in Australia while underscoring its distinctive hum…
Send in the Clowns: Extraordinary Male Protagonists in Contemporary American Fiction
Despite reports on the rise of “obesity,” the portrayal of fat male protagonists in contemporary American fiction remains relatively rare. When it occurs, the character is quite often rendered as tragicomic. The author offers close readings of two protagonists from critically acclaimed novels to flesh out trends in the depiction of the fat male body, which he calls extraordinary, in contemporary American fiction. In charting these characterizatio…
The Sorbian National Renaissance and Slavic Reciprocity in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century
Revise and resubmit: Beauty and the Beast (2017), live-action remakes, and the Disney Princess franchise
When Beauty and the Beast premiered in 1991, its self-assured protagonist was a deliberate departure from the earlier Disney princess narratives. With time, however, the film has been lumped in with the other princess films as regressive, in part because the fairy tale itself is fundamentally flawed. The decision to remake the film as a live-action spectacle opens Disney and the text to the familiar critiques, which the 2017 film alternately addr…
Kidding around: Children, comedy, and social media
This essay considers the implications of social media technologies – specifically, Vine – for comedy studies, childhood studies, and digital culture. Whereas the child as producer and consumer is often overlooked in the humanities, this author contends that digital technologies radically liberate children to become producers of original content that can be easily and widely circulated around the world. Through case studies of three young producer…
The Sorbian National Renaissance and Slavic Reciprocity in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century
The Sorbian National Renaissance and Slavic Reciprocity in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century
Out in the outback: Queering nationalism in Australian film comedy
The ‘ocker film’ was one of the defining subgenres of the revitalized Australian cinema of the 1970s. Characterized by bawdy humor and roguish escapades, these picaresque films satirically perpetuated an image of folksy Australian masculinity that countered and antagonized a queered image of British masculinity. To this end, these popular comedies rebuked the lingering British cultural influence in Australia while underscoring its distinctive hum…
Send in the Clowns: Extraordinary Male Protagonists in Contemporary American Fiction
Despite reports on the rise of “obesity,” the portrayal of fat male protagonists in contemporary American fiction remains relatively rare. When it occurs, the character is quite often rendered as tragicomic. The author offers close readings of two protagonists from critically acclaimed novels to flesh out trends in the depiction of the fat male body, which he calls extraordinary, in contemporary American fiction. In charting these characterizatio…
Kidding around: Children, comedy, and social media
This essay considers the implications of social media technologies – specifically, Vine – for comedy studies, childhood studies, and digital culture. Whereas the child as producer and consumer is often overlooked in the humanities, this author contends that digital technologies radically liberate children to become producers of original content that can be easily and widely circulated around the world. Through case studies of three young producer…
Baby talk: An interview with Matthew Clarke
In 2013, Canadian filmmaker Matthew Clarke launched Convos with My 2-Year-Old, a web series that recreates conversations between Clarke; his wife, Leila Harrison; and their young daughter, Coco. The spin: Coco is portrayed by a full-grown man (David Milchard), complete with a five o'clock shadow. It represents one of the finest examples of growing body of web comedy about parenting and family life, which also includes ‘mommy blogs,’ BatDad Vines,…
Laughter in the digital age
Is new media still ‘new’? The earliest personal computers for the mass market – the Commodore PET and the Apple II – were released in 1977. The year 1991 saw the first website. In 1994, Netscape la
Pops in Pop Culture: Fatherhood, Masculinity, and the New Man
We Don't Die, We Multiply”: Bebe's Kids , Hip-Hop Aesthetics, and Black Feature Animation
Bebe's Kids (dir. Bruce Smith, 1992) was the first animated feature film specifically by, about, and (arguably) for African Americans, bringing together two trends in early 1990s Hollywood: the resurgence of feature animation and the emergence of hiphop cinema. Despite its ambitious intentions, the film was a commercial and critical failure, and its attempts to bridge black cinema and animated media have largely gone neglected by scholars in thes…
Belles are Singing: Broadway, Hollywood, and the Failed Gone With the Wind Musical
Despite the rich range of scholarship on the film musical, in-depth scholarly attention to the relationship between Hollywood and Broadway as symbolic centers of the U.S. culture industries has been surprisingly sparse. This article makes an intervention into this largely neglected history through an examination of David O. Selznick’s failed efforts in the early 1940s to stage Gone With the Wind as a Broadway musical. Fresh off back-to-back Acade…
Revise and resubmit: Beauty and the Beast (2017), live-action remakes, and the Disney Princess franchise
When Beauty and the Beast premiered in 1991, its self-assured protagonist was a deliberate departure from the earlier Disney princess narratives. With time, however, the film has been lumped in with the other princess films as regressive, in part because the fairy tale itself is fundamentally flawed. The decision to remake the film as a live-action spectacle opens Disney and the text to the familiar critiques, which the 2017 film alternately addr…
Bootlegs over Broadway: Musical theatre (re)productions, digital circulation, and the informal media economy
In recent years, the longstanding practice of producing and circulating bootleg recordings of Broadway musicals has escalated as have condemnations of this activity as detrimental to the commercial theatre industry. Drawing on work from media industry studies, this article reframes theatre bootlegging not as a detrimental practice, but as one that may have generative contributions to the theatre industry for its promotional effects. Rather than c…
Live-action mistake: Disney’s Mulan (2020), failure analysis, and media industry studies
Within engineering, failure analysis identifies and assesses technical failure in the hopes of preventing it for the future. What value, if any, might this kind of critical postmortem offer media industry studies? This article considers Disney’s live-action remake of Mulan as a ‘media failure’ – a rare fumble from a global media conglomerate with a consistent record of blockbuster successes. Considering a range of factors and stakeholders, this a…
The Oxford Handbook of Screen Comedy
The Oxford Handbook of Screen Comedy offers a rich sampling of the most current research and evolving trends in a vast and growing field: the study of humor in movies, television, streaming content, social media, and other forms of mediated comedy. The thirty new essays in this volume, written by leading scholars and emerging researchers, are guideposts to where the field is now and where it’s heading. By its very nature, comedy eludes definition…
The precarious promotion of progress: Diversity work, extraprofessional labor, and “woke Disney”
Appropriate Blackness: Standards and Practices, Creative Collaboration, and In Living Color
Using the Tamara Rawitt In Living Color Collection at the National Comedy Center, this article examines the production culture of In Living Color (Fox, 1990–1994) during its first year to explore the varied role of the network censor in shaping the show’s content. While the Fox network embraced Black creative talent to brand itself as edgy and innovative, it actively limited creator Keenen Ivory Wayans’ comedic sensibility to manage In Living Col…
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