Tweet Originally posted at Hacktivision If YouTube’s massive overhaul – many years in the making – revealed anything, it was our deep investments in the transformative potential of web video. Many observers have criticized the company’s move as selling out, a way to streamline the site’s chaos for the benefit of advertisers. (What else is [...]
Posts Tagged ‘gender’
Outsiders After Viral Video
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on January 27th, 2012
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No Comments »Is Liz Lemon Bad At Her Job?
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on January 11th, 2012
Tweet Previewing the new (hit) Showtime series House of Lies, New York‘s Kera Bolonik offered a brief but pithy aside: Is anyone on TV bad at their jobs these days? Not if it’s a high-status gig. But feel free to be a bad waitress, or a crappy paper salesman or receptionist, or an ennui-ridden local-government intern, [...]
Fan Production as Industrial Response in ‘Transformative Works & Cultures’
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on November 15th, 2011
Tweet Some of you may remember the web series The Real Girl’s Guide to Everything Else, a satirical show about Rasha, a Lebanese lesbian forced to date men to finance her book project. The series got a lot of coverage last year, from NPR to Jezebel, and a host of lesbian-focused blogs and websites. Super-syndicated across [...]
Posted in uncategorized Tags: academic, comedy, gay, gender, independent film, race, research, web series No Comments »‘Awkward Black Girl’ Creator Issa Rae Talks Crowdfunding, Indie Production and Moving From Web to TV
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on August 10th, 2011
Tweet Posted at Tubefilter. Even today, when I mention I write about web series, I get nonplussed looks and requests for examples. But there is one series I see friends consistently cheer and evangelize: The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl. “Have you seen it?!” I hear. “You have to see it!” It’s quite a feat [...]
BWE: A New Web Network Targeting Black Women
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on June 22nd, 2011
Tweet You may not have heard of BWE, the Black Women’s Entertainment Network, but if you’re an aspiring TV writer you might have heard of a certain $10,000 contest for web series pilots starring black women. “It gets people in that mindset of, ‘yea, let me create something for a black female lead,’” BWE CEO [...]
‘Downsized’ Creator Daryn Strauss On Web Dramas and Curating Web Series for Women
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on June 9th, 2011
Tweet The web series world is different from traditional TV, but not entirely. Like on television, most web series are generally upbeat, middle class or stay away from intense real world problems. That’s where Downsized comes in. The acclaimed web series focuses on the effects of the recession on a diverse group of people, starring [...]
The Changing Economics of the TV Abortion
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on May 15th, 2011
Tweet Thanks to Early Bird Catches the Worm for linking! “Is abortion no longer taboo for TV?” That’s the question Entertainment Weekly asked last year on the heels of abortions by major characters on Friday Night Lights (Madison Burge’s Becky Sproles) and Mad Men (Christina Hendricks’ Joan Holloway). If this week’s penultimate episode of Private Practice is [...]
In Film, Classic Feminism Fights For A New Generation
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on April 18th, 2011
Tweet UPDATE: Pixar’s Brave seems to be following in this tradition. Talk to any feminist over the age of, say, 40 or 50, and you’re likely to hear a sigh of resignation at the state of women in Hollywood, in front and behind the camera. Young women today just care about Sex and the City, [...]
Marketing To Women With Web Video: An Interview with Mingle Media’s CEO
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on March 29th, 2011
Tweet Do women rule the Internet? There are good arguments for why they do: women are avid consumers and social networkers. Yet for some, women are chronically undervalued by marketers online. If Stephanie Piche has a mission, underscoring the importance of women online is certainly one of them. “Women are out there buying. Men don’t [...]
Posted in uncategorized Tags: distribution, gender, Video (Web/Mobile/Transmedia), web series 4 Comments »Web Series Maven Susan Miller Talks ‘Bestsellers,’ ‘Anyone But Me,’ and Winning a Writers Guild Award
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on March 13th, 2011
Tweet In an industry where most people end up doing not much of anything, Susan Miller keeps busy. The playwright just won a Writers Guild new media award for her and Tina Cesa Ward’s critical and audience darling, Anyone But Me (see my first story on the show). After raising tens of thousands of [...]
