Fifth Issue

Open Access Issue

62.5, 2022-23

The Fifth Issue provides open access to JCMS research articles that go through our rigorous peer review process.

“As the Cyber World Turns”: Web Soaps and the History of TV Storytelling Online

by Elana Levine

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“Anyone Can Wear the Mask”: The Marginalization of Miles Morales in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

by Dru Jeffries

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Archives in Blue: Visual Registers for the Police Siege and Surveillance of Jaguar Productions in the 1970s

by Finley Freibert

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Remediating Antebellum Laughter: Sheppard Lee, Bert Williams, and the Subversion of Blackface in Get Out

by Sami H Atassi

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Surviving “Certain Death”: Narrational Reliability in American Motion Picture Serial Cliffhangers of the Golden Age

by Deborah Allison

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A Diachronic, Scale-Flexible, Relational, Perspectival Operation: In Defense of (Always-Reforming) Medium Specificity

by Jordan Sjol

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A Rural Georgia for White Men, Like Brian Kemp: The Midcentury Films and Nontheatrical Legacy of Georgia Agricultural Extension

by Loren Pilcher

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Happy Trees in a Black Box: Elevated Escapism as Comfort Television in The Joy of Painting with Bob Ross

by Charlotte E. Howell and Joyce B. Howell

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Literature, Print Culture, and the Indian New Wave

by Vikrant Dadawala

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Digital Reincarnation: The Mediated Bodies and Multiple Lives of The Mummy

by Hye Jean Chung

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