Thu, Mar 28
|Tufts University, Barnum Hall LL08
That Feels Culturally Specific: Building Representational Experiences for Black and Brown Viewers
Through a journey into media soundscapes and visuals, film and television scholar Kristen Warner will map and explore the work that goes into building representational experiences for black and brown viewers. Presented as part of the FMS Independent Voices Series.
Time & Location
Mar 28, 2024, 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Tufts University, Barnum Hall LL08, 163 Packard Ave, Medford, MA 02155, USA
About the event
That Feels Culturally Specific: Building representational experiences for black and brown viewers - an audio/visual media journey.
Respondent: Jennifer Gillan (Bentley University) Author of the books: Disney+ Reassembled: Lessons Learned from Netflix, Marvel, and Pixar Branding, Television Brandcasting, and Television and New Media: Must-Click TV
Kristen Warner is an Associate Professor in the Department of Performing and Media Arts at Cornell University. She is the author The Cultural Politics of Colorblind TV Casting (Routledge, 2015). Kristen's research interests are centered at the juxtaposition of racial representation and its place within the film and television industries as it concerns issues of labor and employment. Warner’s work can be found in academic journals, a host of anthologies and online platforms like the NY Mag’s The Cut, the Los Angeles Review of Books and Film Quarterly.
This event is free and open to the community. Parking is available at Dowling Hall, 419 Boston Ave, which is a 5-minute walk from Barnum Hall.
Co-sponsored by Tufts ExCollege, The Department of Theatre, Dance, & Performance Studies at Tufts, Department of Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora at Tufts, The Center for Arts and Humanites at Tufts, and The Boston Film/Media Seminars.