We are thrilled to share Prof. Lawrence's new book "Ghost Channels, Paranormal Reality Television and the Haunting of Twenty-First-Century America" published by the University Press of Mississippi in March 2022. This book is considered to be the first scholarly study of the frighteningly popular paranormal reality television genre.
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The "Venn Vision" award helps interlocking circles of scholars share research interests, motivating faculty of all ranks to reach out to colleagues in concrete ways for inspiration. Congratulations to John Bell et al. on their grant for the project "Being Seen: Audiences in Virtual Reality."
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"Perhaps Garbo speaks to us through the years as modernity's 'new woman'--in her confounding gender and sexual identities, in her refusal to be exploited, and in her disinterest in domesticity as a woman's destiny," the professor of film and media studies writes in "The Washington Post."
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Prof. Mark Williams (Media Ecology Project ) and Shanghai University signed a cooperation agreement on digital tools and technologies for moving image visual culture research.
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The article "What's Happened to Chorus Girls?": Domesticity and the Postwar Backstage Musical, examines an unidentified cycle of popular films in the postwar era: the domestic-themed backstage musical.
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