Tweet Note: This is not a review, but an essay based on the film’s marketing. UPDATE (12/7): Three weeks into its run, The Blind Side is still doing well and now beating New Moon in weekend grosses. ORIGINAL: Tambay Obenson over at Shadow and Act is asking what scores of cineastes have been asking over [...]
Archive for November, 2009
“Blind Side” Success: What If Sandra Bullock Starred In “Precious”?
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on November 29th, 2009
“Drama Queenz” Returns With A Fierceness (And A Few Guest Stars!)
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on November 29th, 2009
Tweet The vast majority of original, independent web series never make it to season two. Producing season one takes so much time and money, when the millions of viewers never materialize, creators can’t bring themselves to invest more precious time and money. (At this point, I’d almost prefer most market themselves as “miniseries until proven [...]
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Tags: black, gay, race, Video (Web/Mobile/Transmedia), web series 
7 Comments »“Kindred,” A Spirited Web Series On A Mission
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on November 29th, 2009
Tweet Living Single and Girlfriends exist today in nostalgia, firmly in the annals of television history but only occasionally as a rerun on a niche network. Who are their children? Certainly cable networks have tried to pick up the torch by giving Jada Pinkett Smith, Jill Scott and Sherri Shepherd their own shows, each of [...]
Posted in uncategorized Tags: black, gender, race, TV, Video (Web/Mobile/Transmedia), web series 4 Comments »"V" From Fascists (1983) to Obama (2009)
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on November 24th, 2009
Tweet V airs its winter finale tonight before resuming episodes in March 2010. If you haven’t seen ABC’s V yet, I’ll spoil it for you: the Vs symbolize President Obama. Countless articles have spelled it out: io9, Chicago Tribune, BreitBart, and Entertainment Weekly, among many others, have already foregrounded the debate. It’s very obvious. In [...]
B. Scott Reimagines Celebrity Online
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on November 23rd, 2009
Tweet You’d be hard-pressed to find a web personality more fascinating than the splendiferous, divine B. Scott. Ever since Madison Moore introduced me to the blogger and YouTuber a couple years ago, I’ve been ever more intrigued! Since then, B. Scott’s star has risen. His website has seen its traffic balloon (Compete, Quantcast) and his [...]
Posted in uncategorized Tags: Digital Culture/Industry, fame, race, sci-fi, TV, web series 10 Comments »“Sons of Anarchy” Proves Cable Deeper, More Provocative Than Broadcast
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on November 23rd, 2009
Tweet Originally posted at Ronebreak. Please comment there! The penultimate episode of Sons of Anarchy airs Tuesday at 10PM, with a 90-minute season finale the following week. You can catch up on episodes at Hulu or iTunes, or you can check Sidereel for more options. _______________________________________ It takes The Sopranos and adds neo-Nazis. It grafts [...]
“Buppies” Review: Drama With A Light Touch
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on November 21st, 2009
Tweet Check out other reviews at Thembi Ford, Shadow and Act. Thank you to Racialicious for reposting this! I’ve written and spoken a lot about Buppies for this blog and elsewhere, but that’s only because I think it’s a significant development within the history of original web shows. Buppies is upon us; the BET-distributed, CoverGirl-sponsored [...]
New York Times, Myself on “Precious”
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on November 21st, 2009
Tweet The New York Times has a great little article out on the debate over Precious, over whether or not it’s a responsible representation of black people. Felicia Lee asked for my opinion, based on an essay written for this blog: Aymar Jean Christian, a doctoral student in communications at the University of Pennsylvania said he [...]
Rethinking “Post-Racial”
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on November 20th, 2009
Tweet I’d originally planned to do reams and reams of reading on this, and an extensive literature review, but I’m so busy writing, curating, filming, editing and researching other things I won’t get to it for another year, and I don’t want to cite some theories and miss others. Eventually I will have to do [...]
Academic Conferences: Presenting Post-Excitement
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on November 20th, 2009
Tweet So I found out yesterday I’ll be going to the SCMS — Society of Cinema and Media Studies — conference in Los Angeles next year. This is somewhat exciting news because it would be my first conference with a significant group of film and television scholars. Yay. But going to conference is sometimes fraught. [...]
