The American Comic Book Industry and Hollywood traces the evolving relationship between the American comic book industry and Hollywood from the launch of X-Men , Spider-Man , and Smallville in the early 2000s through the...
Through an examination of the reception, design and distribution of the original Angry Birds mobile game, Gregory Steirer and Jeremy Barnes demonstrate how the mobile game as a genre represents a new mode of constructing and...
The impetus for this issue on connected viewing grew out of research being done by humanities scholars for the Connected Viewing Initiative, a partnership between UC Santa Barbara’s Carsey-Wolf Center and Warner Brothers Home...
In the early 2010s, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment pursued a streaming strategy built on the assumption that the name Warner Bros. had little brand recognition among contemporary consumers. We're not like Disney, one...
In this essay, we take up three distinctive features of the US-based subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) platform Hulu: its ownership structure, its business deals, and its televisual aesthetics. Although there are substantial...
Steirer, Gregory. Industry. In Keywords for Comics Studies, edited by Ramzi Fawaz, Deborah Whaley and Shelley Streeby, 127-130. NY: New York University Press, 2021., For more information on the published version, visit New...
Gregory Steirer is a professor of English and Film Studies at Dickinson College., Comics, which we will define here provisionally as non-animated series of hand-drawn sequential images, are one of the oldest modern media forms....
The impetus for this issue on connected viewing grew out of research being done by humanities scholars for the Connected Viewing Initiative, a partnership between UC Santa Barbara’s Carsey-Wolf Center and Warner Brothers Home...
Steirer, Gregory. The Personal Media Collection in an Era of Connected Viewing. In Connected Viewing: Selling, Streaming, and Sharing Media in the Digital Era, edited by Jennifer Holt and Kevin Sanson, 79-95. New York:...
The British band Coil, centered around musician-cum-artists John Balance and Peter Christopherson, has always been difficult to situate generically. Formed in 1982 after the dissolution of the first industrial band Throbbing...
