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Fall '18 Co-Editors-in-Chief: Grace Jung Caitlin McCann Features: Noor Bhangu Columns: Joaquin Peres META: Jenny Gunn Zeke Sabe Andrew Bailey and Chris Kerich Mediascape UCLA School of Theatre, Film, and Television 102 East Melnitz Hall Box 951622 Los Angeles, CA 90095-1622 Funding Provided by the UCLA Graduate Students' Association	Letter from the Editors by Grace Jung and Caitlin McCann Features To Shoot an Iraqi: Wafaa Bilal's Domestic Tension in Post-9/11 America by Noor Bhangu Columns A World Physiognomy: Google Maps, the Local Guide, and Archival Depth by Joaquin Peres Meta 'Speaking as': Selfies and Cybertyping by Jenny Gunn The Myth of Postal Cinema by Zeke Sabe Body Clusters, Counter-Play, and Game Art within Chris Kerich's Piles by Andrew Bailey and Chris Kerich
Fall '17 Co-Editors-in-Chief: Grace Jung Caitlin McCann Features: Grace Jung Natacha Guyot Aruna Ekanayake Columns: Jennifer O'Meara Michael Witte META: Hyo Jung Kim Colin Marshall REVIEWS: Joshua Schulze Mediascape UCLA School of Theatre, Film, and Television 102 East Melnitz Hall Box 951622 Los Angeles, CA 90095-1622 Funding Provided by the UCLA Graduate Students' Association	Letter from the Editors by Grace Jung and Caitlin McCann Features A Radical, Vulnerable and Agentic Body: Nymphomaniac by Grace Jung The Cahiers Du Cinema: From Literary Influences to Filmic Legacy by Natacha Guyot The Act of Killing: Authorship as Performance and the Mythology of National Identity by Aruna Ekanayake Columns The Actor-Writer as Author in the Before Sunrise Trilogy by Jennifer O'Meara "All Consciousness is Something": Bergson, Deleuze, and Carrel on the Problems of a Scientific Application of Cinema by Michael Witte Reviews In Defense of Stereoscopy: A Reconsideration of 3D in Owen Weetch's Expressive Spaces in Digital 3D Cinema by Joshua Schulze Meta Virtual Mass Ornament: Making Masses through Changed Spatial Perception in Handheld Digital Screen Culture In "K-Pop in Public" Videos on YouTube by Hyo Jung Kim Portland the City in Cinema by Colin Marshall
Fall '15 Co-Editors-in-Chief: James Fleury Matthias Stork Features: Alexander Greenhough Laurie Norris Columns: Peter Labuza Ying Xiong META: Sara Collins Daniel Sander REVIEWS: James Fleury Daniel Grinberg Mediascape UCLA School of Theatre, Film, and Television 102 East Melnitz Hall Box 951622 Los Angeles, CA 90095-1622 Funding Provided by the UCLA Graduate Students' Association	Letter from the Editors by James Fleury and Matthias Stork Features "Time's Up: The Clock and Cinephilia" by Alexander Greenhough Styled In Time: The Poly-Temporal Post-Apocalyptic Adventures of the Mad Max Film Series by Laurie Norris Columns Classicism and Post-Classicism in Multiverse Time Travel Films by Peter Labuza The Extension of Poetic Mind by Ying Xiong Meta Immaterial Interruption: Paul Chan's New New Testament by Sara Collins Stretching It Wider by Daniel Sander Reviews Studio Ghibli's Video Game Play: The Media Convergence of Ni no Kuni by James Fleury Time and Time Again: The Cinematic Temporalities of Apichatpong Weerasethakul by Daniel Grinberg
Fall '14 Co-Editors-in-Chief: Matthias Stork Andrew Young Features: Shawn Edrei James N. Gilmore Columns: Chris Carter David O'Grady Stefan Werning META: Catherine Grant Tarini Sridharan Mediascape UCLA School of Theatre, Film, and Television 102 East Melnitz Hall Box 951622 Los Angeles, CA 90095-1622 Funding Provided by the UCLA Graduate Students' Association	Letter from the Editors by Matthias Stork and Andrew Young Features Once and Future: Adaptations of Camelot in Non-Arthurian Television Narratives by Shawn Edrei The Curious Adaptation of Benjamin Button: Or, the Dialogics of Brad Pitt's Face by James N. Gilmore Columns Adapting "8-bit" Motion Style to 3D Computer Animation for Wreck-it Ralph by Chris Carter Playfully Subversive: the Many Roles of Adaptation in Making Games at the UCLA Game Lab by David O'Grady Manga, Anime and Video Games: Between Adaptation, Transmedia Extension and Reverse Remediation by Stefan Werning Meta The Marriages of Laurel Dallas: Or, The Maternal Melodrama of the Unknown Feminist Film Spectator by Catherine Grant Transnational Adaptation: The Complex Irreverence of Narrative Strategy in Nina Paley's Sita Sings the Blues by Tarini Sridharan
Fall '13 Co-Editors-in-Chief: Matthias Stork Andrew Young Features: Bobby Schweizer Reviews: Jose Gallegos James Gilmore Columns: Oscar Moralde Matthias Stork META: Harrison Gish Bryan Wuest Andrew Young Mediascape UCLA School of Theatre, Film, and Television 102 East Melnitz Hall Box 951622 Los Angeles, CA 90095-1622 Funding Provided by the UCLA Graduate Students' Association	Letter from the Editors by Matthias Stork and Andrew Young Features Moving Through Videogame Cities by Bobby Schweizer Reviews The Impossible - Or How I Learned Thailand Was Filled with European Tourists by Jose Gallegos Absolute Anxiety Test: Urban Wreckage in The Dark Knight Rises by James Gilmore Columns Dimensions of the Digital City by Oscar Moralde Space-Wars: Mapping the Aesthetics of Post-Cinematic City Space in Action Films and Video Games by Matthias Stork Meta Negotiating Transitional Spaces in Classic Games by Harrison Gish Invisible Walls: Narrativizing Spatial Limitation in Ico and Assassin's Creed II by Bryan Wuest Perpetual Game Space in Crime City: Game Design in the Age of Social Network Gaming by Andrew Young
Winter '13 Co-Editors-in-Chief: Andy Myers Andrew Young Features: Andrew DeWaard Lindsay Giggey Matthew Perkins Reviews: Dana Covit Dennis Lo Columns: James Gilmore Jane'a Johnson Vanessa Mancia META: Matthias Stork Kelly Lake Mediascape UCLA School of Theatre, Film, and Television 102 East Melnitz Hall Box 951622 Los Angeles, CA 90095-1622 Funding Provided by the UCLA Graduate Students' Association	Introduction Letter from the Editors by Andy Myers and Andrew Young Features The Crowd Mind: The Archival Legacy of the Payne Fund Studies' Movies and Conduct (1933) by Christina Petersen Headline Hollywood: A discourse analysis of the Variety archive by Bryan Sebok Reviews Total Archive: Picturing History from the Stereographic Library to the Digital Database by Brooke Belisle All The World's A Video Wall: Technology, Humanity, and the Things in Between. Reviewing Chris Salter's Entangled by Judith Kohlenberger and Samuel Zwaan Murder and Montage: Oliver Stone's Hyperreal Period by Randy Laist Review of Useful Cinema by Andrew Myers Something Borrowed from the Past: Wedding Photography and Super 8mm by Paul Gansky Columns Transmission: Considering New Media and the Online Histories of HIV/AIDS by Christopher Garland Alex Haley's Roots and Hyperreal Historiography by Randy Laist Meta What Happens When You Sleep? Multiple Layers of Voyeurism in the Paranormal Activity Trilogy by Alexandra Schroeder Deja-Viewing? Videographic Experiments in Intertextual Film Studies by Catherine Grant The Three Fates of the Maltese Falcon: Hammet's Novel at Warner Bros. by Clifford James Galiher Photography and Fictionality by Jens Schroter Transmedia Synergies - Remediating Films and Video Games by Matthias Stork In Retrospect: 2012 Los Angeles Animation Festival by Kelly Lake "A Film is Alive During its Making" - An Interview with Filmmaker Thom Andersen by Matthias Stork On Cinemetrics, Video Essays, and Digital Scholarship - An Interview with Dr. Yuri Tsivian and Dr. Daria Khitrova by Matthias Stork
Winter '11 Co-Editors-in-Chief: Jennifer Porst Maya Montañez Smukler Bryan Hartzheim Features: Katy Ralko Michelle Ton Reviews: James Fleury Dennis Lo Columns: Ross Lenihan Benjamin Sampson META: Heather Collette-VanDeraa Nilo Naraghi Mediascape UCLA School of Theatre, Film, and Television 102 East Melnitz Hall Box 951622 Los Angeles, CA 90095-1622 Funding Provided by the UCLA Graduate Students' Association	Introduction Letter from the Editors by Maya Montañez Smukler, Jennifer Porst, and Bryan Hartzheim Features From Synthespian to Avatar: Re-framing the Digital Human in Final Fantasy and The Polar Express By Jessica Aldred Tsuruko Aoki: Wife, Lover, Transcultural Star (visual essay) By Bryan Hikari Hartzheim Pop Music and Wong Kar-wai (visual essay) By Brian Hu Impact on Soft Power of Cultural Mobility: Japan to East Asia By Seiko Yasumoto Reviews Suturing the Wound of Globalization: Immigration and Organs in Dirty Pretty Things By Abby Hinsman Coming of Age in Media/Cultural Studies: Critical Approaches By Dennis Lo Meta Small Cinemas: How They Thrive and Why They Matter By Mette Hjort Roundtable Discussion on the Local and Global in Media Studies Respondents: Amelie Hastie, Roshanak Khesti & Laura U. Marks Columns Introduction By Ross Lenihan & Ben Sampson Robert Greenwald Interview By Ross Lenihan & Ben Sampson Ina Inaba Interview By Ross Lenihan Amie Williams Interview By Ben Sampson Globalization, Digital Films, and New Directions in Documentary By Tom Zaniello Speculations on the Virtual and the Viral Witness to Human Rights Crises By Sam Gregory and Patricia Zimmermann Columns Videos Local/Global in Documentary Films: Traditional Media and New Media (video interview) By Ross Lenihan & Ben Sampson Local/Global in Documentary Films: Short Format vs Long Format (video interview) By Ross Lenihan & Ben Sampson Local/Global in Documentary Films: New Media and Social Change (video interview) By Ross Lenihan & Ben Sampson Local/Global in Documentary Films: Effectiveness of Advocacy Media (video interview) By Ross Lenihan & Ben Sampson
Fall '09 Co-Editors-in-Chief: Jennifer Porst Maya Montañez Smukler Associate Features Editor: Mila Zuo Columns Editor: Bryan Hartzheim Assistant Columns Editor: Paula Perez META Editor: David O'Grady Assistant META Editor: Heather Collette-VanDeraa Research Assistant: Katherine Simon Web Designer: Delicious Simplicity Mediascape UCLA School of Theatre, Film, and Television 102 East Melnitz Hall Box 951622 Los Angeles, CA 90095-1622 Funding Provided by the UCLA Graduate Students' Association	Introduction Letter from the Editors by Maya Montañez Smukler and Jennifer Porst Features Sex, Comedy and Controversy: Kiss Me, Stupid, What's New, Pussycat?, New Hollywood, and Metropolitan Taste By Ken Feil The Shaw-Tarantino Connection: Rolling Thunder Pictures and the Exploitation Aesthetics of Cool By Kenneth Chan "A Hell of a Place": The Everyday as Revisionist Content in Contemporary Westerns By Erica Stein Video Essays Introductions By Jennifer Porst, Maya Montañez Smukler White House, Black President By Clifford Hilo, Maya Montañez Smukler, Julia Wright Layers of Paradox in F for Fake By Benjamin Sampson HBO's Cinematized Television By Erin Hill and Brian Hu Towards a New Genre of Video Game Play By Drew Morton, David O'Grady and Jennifer Porst Columns "This is what's really cool about NFL Films" - An Interview with Margaret Ruffing Morris By Jennifer Porst Reading ESPN Against Niches By Sudeep Sharma Meta Scholars on the Subject of Media, Politics and the Academy (in 10 parts) By Jason Mittell, Scott Ruston, Timothy Shary, and Vernon Shetley Urban Script: Constructing the Site Through Narrative and Documentary Structures By Diane Davis-Sikora
Fall '08 Co-Editors-in-Chief: Jennifer Porst Maya Montañez Smukler Features Editor: Mila Zuo Assistant Features Editor: Corella Difede Reviews Editor: Brian Hu Columns Editor: Bryan Hartzheim Jonathan Cohn META Editor: David O’Grady Copy Editor: Paula Perez Research Assistant: Katherine Simon Web Designer: Delicious Simplicity General Email Address - Mediascape@tft.ucla.edu Funding Provided by the UCLA Graduate Students' Association	Introduction Letter from the Editors by Maya Montañez Smukler and Jennifer Porst Articles By, For, and About: The 'Real' Problem in the Feminist Film Movement by Shilyh Warren Gray or Black? Howard Koch and the Elusive Architecture of the Hollywood "Lists" by Heather Heckman Reviews Media Spectacle and the 2008 Presidential Election: Some Pre-Election Reflections by Douglas Kellner Low and Behold: Using Fiction/Documentary Hybridity to See the Real Damage of Hurricane Katrina by David O'Grady Columns New Media as Election Strategy: How Obama and McCain Court the Net Generation by Brett McCracken Out of the Mouths of Babes: Animated Sitcoms and Political Incorrectness by Phil Scepanski Bad Techno-Subjects: Griefing is Serious Business by Aubrey Anable Meta Scholars on the Subject of Media, Politics and the Academy (in 12 parts) By Allyson Nadia Field, Toby Miller, Bill Nichols, and Chuck Tryon
Spring '08 Co-Editors-in-Chief: Jennifer Porst Brett McCracken Features Editor: Maya Montañez Smukler Reviews Editor: Brian Hu Columns Editor: Jonathan Cohn META Editor: Bill McClain Research Assistant: Jasmine Thornewell Web Designer: Delicious Simplicity General Email Address - Mediascape@tft.ucla.edu Funding Provided by the UCLA Graduate Students' Association	Introduction Letter from the Editors by Brett McCracken and Jennifer Porst Articles Historiography of the World Part 1: The Jewish Body, Historical Crisis and The Comedic Farce by Joshua Louis Moss Acting for the Cameras: Performance in the Multi-Camera Sitcom by Christine Becker Male Masculinity as the Celebration of Failure: The Frat Pack, Women, and the Trauma of Victimization in the "Dude Flick" by Peter Alilunas Reviews O Brother, O Sister by Jeffrey Sconce And Now, Just the News: A Week in the Life of A Daily Show by Nick Marx The Darjeeling Limited: Critiquing Orientalism on the Train to Nowhere by Nandana Bose Columns First-Person-Shooter-Suicide and Some Political Provocations of Emergent Gameplay by John Bridge Machinimateur Wanted: The Professionalization of Machinima by Robert Jones Game Capture: The Machinima Archive and the History of Digital Games by Henry Lowood Notes on What One Can Learn About a Video Game Without Playing It by Deanna Gross Trauma Engines: Representing School Shootings Through Halo by Harrison Gish Meta A Manifesto For Critical Media by Eric Faden The Documentary's New Politics by Eric Faden "Here Comes the Sun?" Persephone's Winter and the Gendered Construction of Myth by Phil Wagner Some Analog Lines David Lowery World of Wonder: An Authorized Documentary of a Production Subculture by Adam Fish Notes Towards a Project on Citizen Kane by Paul Malcolm
Spring '07 Co-Editors-in-Chief: John Bridge Erin Hill Features Editor: Laurel Westrup Reviews Editor: Brian Hu Columns Editor: Jonathan Cohn Research Assistant: Brett McCracken Copy Editors: Bill McClain Jennifer Porst Web Designer: Dawn Fratini General Email Address - Mediascape@tft.ucla.edu Funding Provided by the UCLA Graduate Students' Association	Articles Slights and Slants: Visual Representation in Carnivale by Moe Folk Negotiating Global/Local Identities: Jia Zhang-ke's The World by Clifford Hilo Columns The Game Mechanics of Enlightenment - An Interview With Tracy Fullerton by Jonathan Cohn Is that a Kevin Smith in Your Pocket? Notes on a (Possibly) Emerging Platform by Ethan Tussey Obscure Objects of Media Studies: Echo, Hotbird and Ikonos by Lisa Parks Installments A Curious Circumstance of the iPod Shuffle by Bill Bahng Boyer Reviews The Promise: Re-writing Romantic Archetypes by Ya-chen Chen In Response to the AFI: Top 100 American Films by Women Directors by Erin Hill and Brian Hu
Spring '06 Co-Editors-in-Chief: John Bridge Erin Hill Features Editor: Laurel Westrup Reviews Editor: Brian Hu Associate Editor: Jason Gendler Web Designer: Dawn Fratini General Email Address - Mediascape@tft.ucla.edu Funding Provided by the UCLA Graduate Students' Association	Articles "This is our Holocaust": Deepa Mehta's Earth and the Question of Partition Trauma by Dorothy Barenscott Eija-Liisa Ahtila's Affective Images in The House by Tarja Laine Storied Stores: Visual Culture and a People's History of the Archive by Zoe Trodd Reviews Women's History Trilogy (Kim Soyoung, 2000-2004) by Serena Formica Closed Borders and Open Secrets: Regional Lockout, the Film Industry, and Code-Free DVD Players by Brian Hu Fostering International Cinema: The Rotterdam Film Festival, CineMart, and the Hubert Bals Fund by Daniel Steinhart
Spring '05 Co-Editors-in-Chief: John Bridge Erin Hill Features Editor: Christopher Lane Amy Sloper Reviews Editor: Brian Hu Rowena Aquino Columns Editor: Mary Samuelson META Editor: Candace Moore Web Designer: Group Effort General Email Address - Mediascape@tft.ucla.edu Funding Provided by the UCLA Graduate Students' Association	Articles Screen Angst: New Media Orientations and Youthfulness by Stephen Michael Charbonneau Inch'Allah Dimanche vs. Lila dit Ca: Transnational Feminism Counters the Streamlining of Accented Cinema by Zinaid Meeran Virtuality and Control In Spielberg's Minority Report by Jason Skonieczny Algunos Aspectos del Filmoteca de la UNAM by Noah Zweig Reviews Taking Film Studies to the Streets (and Back Again): On the Necessity of Criticism by Brian Hu Hollywood on the Head of a Pin: Montage and Marketing at the Oscars by Lisa Kernan Save the Green Planet!, Memories of Murder, and the 80s in Cinema by Byun Sungchan, translated by Hyongshin Kim Accessing Wal-Mart on the Internet: Diegetic Layers and Alternative Distribution and Exhibition Practices by Rowena S. Aquino Columns Notes from a Videogame Breakdown by Savitri Young Artificial Life in Real Time by Bernardo Rondeau Meta Notes on the "Historical Turn" and the Uses of Theory by Eric Vanstrom Your History Acts as Your Gravity: On Personal History, Passion, and Media Studies by Laurel Westrup

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