R Joshua Scannell
Biographic Data
| ID | 959186 |
|---|---|
| NAME | R Joshua Scannell |
| GIVEN NAMES | R Joshua |
| FAMILY NAME | Scannell |
| SIGNATURE | SCANNELL R J |
| AFFILIATIONS | New School |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Nostalgic Resignation
This article interrogates the depiction of working‐class and subaltern characters in neoliberal US cinema. Deploying a Marxian class schema in a content analysis of 53 top‐grossing films released between 1980 and 2010, we find working‐class characters unexpectedly prominent. They appear in most films, lead in a plurality, and are far more often heroes than heavies. Yet the vast majority are white, male and US‐born while exhibiting near ubiquitous…
Computing Race
These two new monographs have recently contributed to a growing body of scholarship that argues for the centrality of race and racialization to both the social organization of our digitalized societies and the technical apparatuses of computation. This is a welcome development since for decades critical digital studies has developed a robust tradition of analyzing digitality and computational culture from the perspective of a critique of capital …
What’s Blood Got to Do with It? A Culture of Cinema Horrors at the Precipice of an Abyss
At a cultural moment in which the horrifying is central, what are the pedagogical options available by which to teach and think with our students? Horror movies, like all media, are mythmakers; media and culture reflect and reproduce but also create or consolidate. Teaching horror leads to new conversations, makes the familiar strange, and gives students new language and tools through which to assess and rewrite cultural and social narratives. Th…
Cops Are the Crisis and Cameras Are No Solution
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Cops Are the Crisis and Cameras Are No Solution
What’s Blood Got to Do with It? A Culture of Cinema Horrors at the Precipice of an Abyss
At a cultural moment in which the horrifying is central, what are the pedagogical options available by which to teach and think with our students? Horror movies, like all media, are mythmakers; media and culture reflect and reproduce but also create or consolidate. Teaching horror leads to new conversations, makes the familiar strange, and gives students new language and tools through which to assess and rewrite cultural and social narratives. Th…
Nostalgic Resignation
This article interrogates the depiction of working‐class and subaltern characters in neoliberal US cinema. Deploying a Marxian class schema in a content analysis of 53 top‐grossing films released between 1980 and 2010, we find working‐class characters unexpectedly prominent. They appear in most films, lead in a plurality, and are far more often heroes than heavies. Yet the vast majority are white, male and US‐born while exhibiting near ubiquitous…
Computing Race
These two new monographs have recently contributed to a growing body of scholarship that argues for the centrality of race and racialization to both the social organization of our digitalized societies and the technical apparatuses of computation. This is a welcome development since for decades critical digital studies has developed a robust tradition of analyzing digitality and computational culture from the perspective of a critique of capital …
Sociology (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Movie theater (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Anthropology (1 work) · Art history (1 work)