International Journal of Cultural Studies, Ahead of Print. Refugees played a central role in public discourse in the past decade, however, self-representations were marginal. In this article, I analyze the documentary My Escape / Meine Flucht, which po…
International Journal of Cultural Studies, Ahead of Print. During the last decade, an increasing number of transnational and multilingual television shows have been produced, distributed, and consumed via global streaming platforms. The present study a…
International Journal of Cultural Studies, Ahead of Print. Levine discusses the research and writing of her 2020 book, Her Stories: Daytime Soap Opera and US Television History, considering whether the long duration of the project qualifies it as “slow…
International Journal of Cultural Studies, Volume 25, Issue 5, Page 589-605, September 2022. This article examines a pattern of popular US audiovisual media depictions of post-apartheid South Africa, which portray SA as harbouring latent danger. I use …
International Journal of Cultural Studies, Volume 25, Issue 5, Page 492-499, September 2022. This article argues that the Creole is, at once, both a technological construct of the plantation economies of the colonized Atlantic world and a moment of int…
International Journal of Cultural Studies, Ahead of Print. This article seeks to critically reassess common interpretations of translational fandoms light of recent developments in the Chinese context. It further negotiates the rationale and theoretica…
International Journal of Cultural Studies, Ahead of Print. This article examines how qualities of expertise are constructed and sustained within the televisual world of craft reality competition television. We suggest that part of the appeal of this re…
International Journal of Cultural Studies, Volume 25, Issue 5, Page 518-535, September 2022. About a century ago, women in the US and western Europe looked to ‘Turkish pantaloons’ (shalwar) for freedom and were shamed, harassed, and even arrested for w…
International Journal of Cultural Studies, Volume 25, Issue 5, Page 481-491, September 2022. This article reflects on translation practices engendered by location, disciplinary constraints, and Western hegemonies in the work of cultural studies scholar…
International Journal of Cultural Studies, Volume 25, Issue 5, Page 500-517, September 2022. This article examines the production practices that underpin the production of portal films in the Nigerian video film industry (Nollywood). Following the rece…