Essays

I created this page as a central location for the longer essays I write for this blog, except for those about web series, which are mostly on the web series page.

Starred headlines (**) denote popular posts.

Can — And Should — YouTube Recreate TV?

Who Wins When TV and the Web Converge? Nielsen and the Problem of Web Ratings**

Quality Web Originals Jump Over-The-Top

Netflix, Qwikster and the Challenge of Navigating the Digital Transition

Netflix and Original Programming: If They Build It, Will We Pay?

Rise of the Black (Web Video) Network?

The Past and Future Market for Web Comedy**

Is Hulu Winning the Web Video Wars?

Paying for Content: The Context and Consequences of the Next Wave in New Media**

Crowdsourcing Funding for Web Series

Does Web Comedy Work on TV?

The Other Side of Privacy: Benefits of Targeted Advertising?

Toward a History of the Web Series (Market)

Graduating from YouTube Hard Without Big Media Support

Why Black Americans Should Care About Net Neutrality**

What Makes a Successful Web Series?**

Lady Gaga’s ‘Telephone:’ Product Placement and Corporate Anxiety**

How Many Black TV Networks Do We Need?

What Is Popular?

Does the Broadcast Versus Cable Debate Matter?

Why Your Favorite TV Show Will Never Be A Movie **

What is “Television”? Broadcast, It Is Not

The Sitcom Returns! If So, For How Long?


Is ‘Enlightened’ Enlightened? The Strange, Quiet Brilliance of HBO’s Dark Comedy

The Sopranos and Its Legacy, Post-Hype

Cable TV’s Corruptible Women**

The ‘Mad Men’ Effect: When TV Became Slow**

Where Did The “Gay Show” Go?

On Cable, Long Live the Anti-Hero

White Supremacists Are Back (On Television)!

‘Damages’: Weakness at the Heart of Power

Does Web Comedy Work on TV?

Will ‘Treme’ Fall Into the ‘Caprica’ Trap?

What Can U.S. Series Learn From Telenovelas?**

Best TV of the Decade! (Top Three, For Me)

Better Off “Fred”

Have Film Critics Really Been Seduced by Hollywood?

Big Marketing May Be Down. Is It Dead?

Recession Film Formula: Mad Men

Brilliance of Cute: ‘Babies,’ Documentary and Digital Culture

Feminism Fights For A New Generation

Where is the Black Julia Roberts? Top Actresses 2000-2010**

Is the Bechdel Test Overlooking Feminist Films?

Solitary Woman? Notes on Gender and Independent Film

Will We Ever Pay Homage to Nancy Meyers?**

Lonely Men: An American Encounters Sorrentino

Hollywood Needs Will Smith. Why Doesn’t It Make Another One?

Is Hollywood Pushing Black Actors to TV?

Who Should Have Directed ‘For Colored Girls’?**

Where is the Black Julia Roberts? Top Actresses 2000-2010

“Invictus” and the Politics of Idealism

Lo-Fi Survives the Age of High-Tech and Big Budgets

“Precious” and the Fight Against Representation**

“Precious” Isn’t the First Naughty Black Film

Spike Lee and the Right to be Angry

Understanding Tyler Perry, the Phenomenon**

Has Hollywood Mastered the Gay Film?

Fame (1980), Fame (2009), and Fame!**

Fame Star Decries Fame Today

Star Trek and Millennial Aesthetics

Mumblecore: We are a generation of hustlers

‘Avatar’ Robbed Like ‘Citizen Kane’?**

Dissertation: Off the Line: Independent Television and the Pitch to Reinvent Hollywood**

Fan Production as Industrial Response in ‘Transformative Works & Cultures’

Mumblecore After the Rise of Web Video and Decline of Digital Realism

The Revolution Will Come When It Comes

Toward a Market-Centered Critique of Representation

On Embracing the Burden of Representation**

Revisiting Henry Jenkins and Debates over the Power of the Internet**

Sex and the Millennials from Lady Gaga to ‘Easy A’**

In Defense of “Celebratory” Scholarship

An Analog Reading List for the Digital Practitioner

Reading List in Communication, Culture and Industry (updated)

Research Update: Web Series, Independent Production and Emerging New Media

Camp 2.0, or YouTube’s Queer Identity

Fashion Copyright = Bad Idea (Televisual Break)

Is Black Queer Back?

Rethinking “Post-Racial”

Ellen, the Academy, and Improving Media Criticism

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