THE SECOND IN A SPECIAL FIVE-PART SERIES ON HOW WE ENCOUNTER, ENGAGE WITH, AND TEACH TELEVISION STUDIES IN THE WAKE OF THE GLOBAL PANDEMIC.

What are the relations between televisual politics and aesthetics, identity and representation, communication and critique? How has the pandemic renewed interest in conversations around TV’s modes of address and how viewers make meaning from particular kinds of programming content? At a time when fraught politics are, one might say, on the very surface of texts today, how should we best deploy and/or aim to transform ideological analysis? This episode includes a special discussion of ideology in relation to the protests following the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis.

Guest scholars: Racquel Gates, Amanda Ann Klein, Juan Llamas Rodriguez, Amy Villarejo

For more on the participants and on this special series, click here.