Melissa Sexton
Biographic Data
| ID | 814859 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Melissa Sexton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Melissa |
| FAMILY NAME | Sexton |
| SIGNATURE | SEXTON M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Surrey |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0444-0989 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Understanding Media Production, Paul Dwyer (2019)
Review of: Understanding Media Production , Paul Dwyer (2019) London and New York: Routledge, 232 pp., ISBN 978-1-13823-814-5, h/bk, USD 124
Teaching the Anthropocene: Technology and Environmental Justice
Teaching the AnthropoceneTechnology and Environmental Justice Melissa Sexton (bio) What does it mean to say we are in the Anthropocene? How might such a term affect the ways in which we imagine and interact with the environments and technologies surrounding us? These are the questions I asked students in the composition and communications classes I taught with an Anthropocene theme. And these questions, I told students, were ones that we (groups …
The Satanists
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Fargo: Seeing the significance of style in television poetics
This article explores the adaptation of the original film to television and how a strain of art or independent cinema contributed to the development of the first series of Fargo (2014-present). By making this comparison, the transition to television of the storyworld established by the Coen brothers raises questions about who is talking in the TV drama - the Coens or makers of the series. At the same time, Fargo can be more easily explained and u…
Star Trek and American Television
Star Trek and American Television is a welcomed addition to the growing corpus of publications that, as the book says, look at ‘television itself’ rather than use critical methods of enquiry borrow
Deception Reality: Street Magic from Blaine to Dynamo
Television has, throughout its history, used a mode that was founded on liveness as an assertion of its ability to relay an untransformed event. This essay explores the tension between the unmediated 'reality' suggested by the television reality show, and the deception of 'street magic', popularised by the American David Blaine and the British magician, Dynamo. This tension can be understood as a sign of the intermediate space between fact and fi…
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Deception Reality: Street Magic from Blaine to Dynamo
Television has, throughout its history, used a mode that was founded on liveness as an assertion of its ability to relay an untransformed event. This essay explores the tension between the unmediated 'reality' suggested by the television reality show, and the deception of 'street magic', popularised by the American David Blaine and the British magician, Dynamo. This tension can be understood as a sign of the intermediate space between fact and fi…
Star Trek and American Television
Star Trek and American Television is a welcomed addition to the growing corpus of publications that, as the book says, look at ‘television itself’ rather than use critical methods of enquiry borrow
The Satanists
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Fargo: Seeing the significance of style in television poetics
This article explores the adaptation of the original film to television and how a strain of art or independent cinema contributed to the development of the first series of Fargo (2014-present). By making this comparison, the transition to television of the storyworld established by the Coen brothers raises questions about who is talking in the TV drama - the Coens or makers of the series. At the same time, Fargo can be more easily explained and u…
Understanding Media Production, Paul Dwyer (2019)
Review of: Understanding Media Production , Paul Dwyer (2019) London and New York: Routledge, 232 pp., ISBN 978-1-13823-814-5, h/bk, USD 124
Teaching the Anthropocene: Technology and Environmental Justice
Teaching the AnthropoceneTechnology and Environmental Justice Melissa Sexton (bio) What does it mean to say we are in the Anthropocene? How might such a term affect the ways in which we imagine and interact with the environments and technologies surrounding us? These are the questions I asked students in the composition and communications classes I taught with an Anthropocene theme. And these questions, I told students, were ones that we (groups …
Sociology (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · History (3 works) · Media studies (3 works) · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis (2 works) · Physics (2 works) · Advertising (1 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Anthropocene (1 works)