Kristiana Willsey
Biographic Data
| ID | 713399 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kristiana Willsey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kristiana |
| FAMILY NAME | Willsey |
| SIGNATURE | WILLSEY K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southern California |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
At War with Stories
In a post-draft era in which American civilians have grown increasingly apart from their military, veterans are urged to share their stories, to personalize distant and poorly understood conflicts-to make war meaningful. But individual veterans can't control the larger conversation in which their stories are interpreted or used. Veterans' stories are ventriloquized by candidates in campaign rallies, recapped in late-night news monologues, retweet…
"Fake Vets" and Viral Lies
Stolen valor" confrontations calling out "fake vets" have generated a popular genre of viral video, a highly concentrated and visible expression of contemporary anxieties over the commodification of identity online. The boom in first-person stories, particularly traumatic ones, has oversaturated the attention economy of the internet, creating a market for fakes that real veterans can't criticize without challenging the authenticity of their own s…
“All That Was Lost Is Revealed”
Pointedly nostalgic in both its source material and storytelling approach, Over the Garden Wall’s vintage aesthetic is not merely decorative, but ideological. The miniseries responds to recent postmodern fairy tale adaptations by stripping away a century of popular culture references and using motifs, not to invoke and upset increasingly familiar fairy tales, but as an artist’s palette of evocative, available images. In privileging imagery and mo…
"Fake Vets" and Viral Lies
Stolen valor" confrontations calling out "fake vets" have generated a popular genre of viral video, a highly concentrated and visible expression of contemporary anxieties over the commodification of identity online. The boom in first-person stories, particularly traumatic ones, has oversaturated the attention economy of the internet, creating a market for fakes that real veterans can't criticize without challenging the authenticity of their own s…
At War with Stories
In a post-draft era in which American civilians have grown increasingly apart from their military, veterans are urged to share their stories, to personalize distant and poorly understood conflicts-to make war meaningful. But individual veterans can't control the larger conversation in which their stories are interpreted or used. Veterans' stories are ventriloquized by candidates in campaign rallies, recapped in late-night news monologues, retweet…
“All That Was Lost Is Revealed”
Pointedly nostalgic in both its source material and storytelling approach, Over the Garden Wall’s vintage aesthetic is not merely decorative, but ideological. The miniseries responds to recent postmodern fairy tale adaptations by stripping away a century of popular culture references and using motifs, not to invoke and upset increasingly familiar fairy tales, but as an artist’s palette of evocative, available images. In privileging imagery and mo…
"Fake Vets" and Viral Lies
Stolen valor" confrontations calling out "fake vets" have generated a popular genre of viral video, a highly concentrated and visible expression of contemporary anxieties over the commodification of identity online. The boom in first-person stories, particularly traumatic ones, has oversaturated the attention economy of the internet, creating a market for fakes that real veterans can't criticize without challenging the authenticity of their own s…
At War with Stories
In a post-draft era in which American civilians have grown increasingly apart from their military, veterans are urged to share their stories, to personalize distant and poorly understood conflicts-to make war meaningful. But individual veterans can't control the larger conversation in which their stories are interpreted or used. Veterans' stories are ventriloquized by candidates in campaign rallies, recapped in late-night news monologues, retweet…
Aesthetics (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Narrative (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Digital Storytelling and Education (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Media studies (2 works) · Storytelling (2 works)