Dr. Brandy MP
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Media + Black Cultural Studies scholar; Film + TV prof @ Fordham U; Book Reviews Editor, Celebrity Studies Journal
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I wrote this piece 3 wks ago to reflect on and try to make sense of TV’s relationship to Blackness in the past, present, and future. So much has happened. My heart aches for Elijah McClain. Justice for Breonna.
Tele-visionary Blackness … via
@publicbooks
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@FilmFatale_NYC
Every time I watch the episode where Carrie gets offended that Charlotte doesn’t lend her like, $15K for her apartment down payment...😡
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Today I want to acknowledge and affirm the Black grad students + faculty in academia that have never not written under extreme racial duress. I will never forget writing my dissertation during Ferguson. Maybe your research is related, maybe not. It wears on us all. Much love 💚
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The process of revising a f2f lecture into a 15 min online video lecture w/ slides, recording, uploading, captioning, and syncing to a learning platform, took about one day. Schools need to pay every instructor like, $2K for one week of time + energy spent on focused course prep.
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Film and TV professors, do you get the sense that your students are watching *less* film and tv? Outside of the basic niche-ification of viewing. Like less consumption as a whole, and especially for those who are majoring/minoring in the field.
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I am just a professor who teaches TV Studies, standing in front of a streaming service, asking it to please put your programs on DVD.
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@dstfelix
In addition to being stupid, it is dangerous...literally mainstreaming Q*non conspiracies right before our eyes.
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@alex_abads
And that’s not even the worst thing she did in this episode…she hijacked a black woman’s bachelorette so they could ooh and aww over Charlotte’s ring!
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Nope! If you continued to read that thread, it went beyond benign braggadocious born out of frustration about a structural problem to thinly veiled resentment and animus toward those who got jobs who don’t share his identity categories. It always does. And should be called out.
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Stop gaslighting folks. There are *clearly* more fireworks being set off this year than previous ones...more powerful and more sustained, for the past 2-3 weeks. You don’t have to think it’s a gov’t conspiracy. But it’s also not just bored folks looking for fun during a pandemic.
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@SPBPHD
Yes! It was the first thing I thought when I saw the drama cover. You definitely have to look at them both to get the not so subtle message that THR is conveying.
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Listen, I’m all about transparency and honesty when it comes to the academic job market. BUT…have some fucking discernment about when you’re high off your own supply and what needs to stay in your group chat with your friends, academic or otherwise (if you even have them 🥴)
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Chadwick was our Jackie Robinson, James Brown, and Thurgood Marshall. Our T’Challa. Hard to overstate his impact on seeing a history of Black iconicity on screen. Rest in Power, Black Panther ✊🏾
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Anecdotally, many POC don’t even bother to apply to generalist jobs in a field bc racism. Usually of the kind where folks believe diversity is mutually exclusive from merit. With positions in race-specific subfields, there are a variety of factors at play. Context is important.
It’s anecdotal, for sure, but I personally was told multiple times by insiders in job searches things like “they’ll never hire a white man,” “we can’t give it to a white man in this climate,” “a white man who studies European history is dead on arrival,” etc.
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Y’all Dartmouth is in the middle of nowhere in the Upper Valley and they have called law enforcement in with riot gear. This is not the way.
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So excited to join the board of this amazing group that does such important feminist media work! 🥳
On behalf of the CP Executive Board, we're thrilled to announce our three newest members who will begin their terms on January 1! Please help us welcome Brandy Monk-Payton (Fordham University), Morgan Blue (Independent Scholar), and Ben Aslinger (Bentley University).
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…do I have to revise this book chapter on black celebrity and live TV now? 🥴
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Ok it’s officially time for some Black journalists and pundits of color to get on TV. Because I cannot take all this astonishment with no critical analysis of the climate and what is transpiring right now.
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I know this will be hard for news media, but tmw can’t just be like some weird POTUS bed-watch. Continue to do investigative reporting about the cluster + spread, w/ a focus on those most vulnerable. Return to the taxes and other horrors. He can take it, right? He feels better!
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Anyone who appreciates moving images is indebted to his work in some way, shape, or form. What a giant and amazing legacy to leave behind!
It is with deep sadness that we mourn the passing of David Bordwell. Professor Bordwell’s contributions to film theory and history have been instrumental in shaping our understanding of cinema as an art form and storytelling practice.
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Teaching TV Studies now is going over your syllabi to see which required programs and episodes you want students to view are no longer on the same platform that they were a semester ago and where they moved to, and perhaps they aren’t available anymore at all WELP 😩
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They did Perrineau and the character of Michael dirty on LOST. So glad he’s speaking out.
And please go watch
@FROMonMGM
because he is fantastic and the show allows for his main character energy where LOST wouldn’t!
#fromily
Harold Perrineau has spoken up about how he was fired from ‘LOST’ after he asked that POC characters receive more storytelling.
“You said you don’t have enough work here, so we’re letting you go,” Carlton Cuse told him.
(Source: )
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Heard “new materialisms” in a line on
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…is this what it’s like for MDs hearing jargon on every TV show that dramatizes their workplace ever? 😂
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When I teach African American Cinema, we do a week on Poitier…watching his films, analyzing his performances + interviews. I try to get students to imagine being a Black movie star during the 1950s/1960s, navigating so much ideological and affective investment in your iconicity.
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@ValerieComplex
Nabers said this for the same interview, which is honestly basically the same thing. The difference is that the black woman co-creator seems to see power in this refusal of humanity and Glover’s quote suggests complete abjection (which tracks). They both wanted Dre to be opaque.
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Nicole Kidman should be required to release a melodramatic domestic mystery once a year because yes.
#Expats
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JOBS: Come work with me and other cool folks at Fordham! 🤗
TT Assistant or Associate-level in Global Film and/or Television Studies
*PLUS*
TT Assistant-level in Critical Race and Digital Media
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When I first joined Twitter, I barely used it. When I did, I was a lurker for at least two years. Then it took me awhile to post and then another while to post mostly freely. Some of us can’t just hit the ground running in new spaces. Habits need to develop, which takes time.
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Put metaphorically: how do we get students to have an appetite for something they don’t actually seem to have a taste for, but that they ordered? 😝😂
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Losing child tax credits but starting up student loan repayment? I mean…these are choices. With consequences. Just sayin.
If Dems don't finish BBB by Dec 28, **today** is the last day child tax credit payments will go out.
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Wrote some words about the contradictions of contemporary black celebrity!
Black celebrity matters: on the instability of fame
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I love you all, but there are too many lectures and panels and webinars, I can’t keep up 😭
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@The_RaeMarie
@FilmFatale_NYC
Like, let that woman keep her engagement ring if she wants! It’s HERS. Ugh. 😑
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Do we need to bring back courses like “Film Appreciation”? Antiquated, yes, but maybe helpful to promote robust viewing habits again?
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Dear Gap Inc.: Close all of your stores (BR, Old Navy, Athleta, etc) instead of sending me emails about 40% off sales and new spring looks. 😑
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Anyone writing about podcasts and TV nostalgia? I’m interested in the emergence of podcasts hosted by former casts of series like One Tree Hill and now Friday Night Lights that provide retrospective commentary? Are there other ones like this?
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Words cannot express how good it felt to be back in person at
#SCMS23
. So grateful for this community of scholars 💚
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Lauren Berlant gave me language to talk about the complexities of public life and I will forever be grateful. RIP 💚
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@Butthisbook
The counter example is Zack + Bliss. Zack realized he made the wrong choice very early, broke it off, then connected with Bliss (who knew he made the wrong choice but didn’t say anything) back in the real world. Neither Jeramey or Sarah Ann has that kind of self-awareness.
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Yup…and there was absolutely no reason except for the fact that she just couldn’t help herself.
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Excited to talk about Black folks and their relationship to cable TV with my fellow panelists, including
@Kunda_Kentay
and respondent
@MeenaLinde
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Said a couple of things for this important deep dive into Black hair on TV!
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@Its_Velez
@deray
Is this an inaccurate graphic? It says if “symptoms are resolving” and if that’s not the case, it’s bad wording and should be changed.
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@JoyAnnReid
Hearing Stephen Miller recite a Stephen Miller written speech is probably the most cringeworthy.
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Happy to have my musings on this persona non grata for
@PersonaStudies
finally out in the world. If you’re interested in assholes, affect, aesthetics, fashion, fascism, and bad design, this is for you!
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William Jackson Harper is verrrry good at being a leading man. Like more than some of your other faves that get more attention.
#LoveLife
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@THR
This headline is nasty and, from the article’s actual content, inaccurate. THR should be ashamed of its misogynoir.
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Periodic reminder to myself, a scholar of film, TV, and pop culture, in an era of social media: It’s ok not to keep up. It’s ok to let your own thoughts marinate as you read other folks’ analyses. It’s ok to write about an object as slowly as you need and want. It still matters.
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Cannot be overstated how terrible this format is for
#SYTYCD
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Between this and that image of Tim Scott standing behind him a few weeks ago…read my piece out in current JCMS now!
Trump: These lights are so bright in my eyes I can't see people... I can only see the Black ones. I can't see any white ones. That's how far I've come. That's a long way isn't it?
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What is the film that made you a film and media scholar before you even knew what that was? Mine is Scream.
(And American Beauty but let’s not talk about that 🤡)
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@alex_i_s_
@StreetsblogUSA
@StreetsblogNYC
@Amtrak
@WeTheCommuters
@_KennyUong_
The folks in this thread saying there is a seating area…it is tiny. Also, just wait until this space gets crowded with like, back-to-school college students?
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Hi I’m an academic who loves to educate in the classroom yet understands that we should probably absolutely not be in one right now. Is that hard to understand? Y’all stressing me out on this app 😑
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And this is an observation not necessarily a criticism. I just want to understand. I am bewildered a bit, and concerned a lot, as a teacher of these things!
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A thread: I’m not here to recuperate Kanye. My work theorizes race and fame in media culture: as such, I’m interested in Black celebrity as a fundamentally “fraught” category (per Nicole Fleetwood in her book, On Racial Icons).
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I wrote a thing!
@kristenwarner
edited a great lineup of essays on women’s targeted media! 💃🏾
Introducing the First Black Bachelorette: Race, Diversity, and Courting Without Commitment | Communication, Culture and Critique | Oxford Academic
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Still thinking about the fabulous workshop on preserving black digital culture yesterday with folks like
@meredithdclark
@DocDre
and
@Kaerf1
! Let’s do this! 💃🏾
#scms2023recipes
#SCMS2023
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Is someone tracking content loss on Discovery+? Because like, removing this as opposed to say, 200 episodes of What Not to Wear or American Chopper is a choice!
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Student wrote a paper about the reactionary 90s gender politics of Home Improvement through its aesthetics of grunting THE KIDS ARE ALRIGHT
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Yessss. Read Wendy Brown.
@davidfrum
There's actually scholarship documenting that in many countries, walls have functioned more as political totems and theater pieces than as real policy:
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As a first gen college student, an unexpected result of moving to online teaching is that now I can send my video recorded lectures to my family so that they can actually see what I do everyday! Mom just watched me talk about 1990s hood films for African American Cinema 💚
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I wrote this piece 3 wks ago to reflect on and try to make sense of TV’s relationship to Blackness in the past, present, and future. So much has happened. My heart aches for Elijah McClain. Justice for Brianna.
Tele-visionary Blackness via
@publicbooks
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Oh there’s gonna be a Black Bachelor now? Go read my article on the first Black Bachelorette!
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Very excited to see this promo! Can’t wait for 2nd season of
@FROMonMGM
with the fabulous
@HaroldPerrineau
!
#FROMily
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@jayrosen_nyu
It would be great to have a whole week dedicated to journalism and the women’s magazine in the rom com! There are so many movies!
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Basically 2/3rds of teaching TV is actually trying to access TV in an age of Peak TV so everything that’s happening is just greaaaat for my nerves 🫠
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I don’t need Keri Russell to win an Emmy for The Diplomat, I need you to rectify the mistake of not giving her one for The Americans kthanxbye!
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I’m sorry I literally can’t get past the fact that this SCOTUS hearing right now is for a nominee whose announcement was a Covid-19 super spreader event just over 2 weeks ago. Just me?
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I teach Roots and students watch the entirety of it over two weeks. This time in particular, I was struck by the contradiction between current resistance to learn histories of anti-blackness and this being such an educational television event in the 70s that everyone watched.
The 1977 TV miniseries ‘Roots,’ based on Alex Haley's Pulitzer Prize winning novel, is being re-released to celebrate its 45th anniversary
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I don’t see how Columbia comes back from this, let alone has a commencement in a couple of weeks. Or many other schools for that matter. So many lines have been crossed because of this excessive use of force. It truly didn’t have to be this way.
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Apparently the fun thing about tornado warnings in NYC is that weather reporters keep telling us to go to the basement…like. 🥴😭
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It’s not likely that we’ll get it this time, but just once I would like for the
#Emmys
to acknowledge the robust history of PRIMETIME TEEN TV. Bring up the casts of 90210, Dawson’s Creek, The OC, Gossip Girl, and Riverdale!
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Let it allll out everyone.
#Riverdale
star
#VanessaMorgan
slams series' treatment of Black characters and says she's the least-paid series regular on the show:
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Happy to be in such great company at
@FlowTV
for the first of two columns in which I delve into “BLM TV”!
From “Relevance” to “Reckoning” or, Channeling Black Lives Matter on TV — Part OneBrandy Monk-Payton / Fordham University – Flow
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So much of my thinking about race, television, and black media cultures is entirely shaped by Herman Gray. His intellectual curiosity and rigor is unparalleled and I’m so thankful the field has the opportunity to listen to his words of wisdom!
Check out the latest Fieldnotes interview featuring Herman Gray, interviewed by Racquel Gates here:
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Rich people really have no concept of both how much $2000 can be (for those who desperately need relief) and how little $2000 actually is (absolutely nothing) as a threat to their own wealth and financial sensibilities.
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@jayrosen_nyu
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days is probably the most instructive? Never Been Kissed and also 13 Going on 30. Not a women’s mag but a rom com and one of the best classic Hollywood films ever made: His Girl Friday!
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Well played TV flow from The Bachelorette to The Celebrity Dating Game, but this show is giving me major secondhand embarrassment, I cannot. 😜😂
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Found out a student is now watching Buffy for the first time because my Zoom teaching background is the Sunnydale High library...this is the kind of difference I like to make in the world 😎
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After everything and especially after yesterday, I never want to see Ivanka on some future news special crying crocodile tears and trying to recuperate her image. She should not be given a pass, ever.
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...I hope everyone knows that you would not see a cop firing four shots into a white teenage girl with a knife in a domestic dispute on a front lawn. Can’t really say much more than that.
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@devjpow
The thing is, I imagine this all gets easier! But sifting through what works and doesn’t work for you the first time takes AWHILE. You have to give faculty space to learn their process of content delivery. And it should be paid.
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Shoutout to my folks teaching in-person with allergies who are on Flonase and taking Claritin/Zyrtec/Allegra etc every day to manage being in a constant state of suspicion about if they have Covid symptoms or not 😭
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Very practically speaking in Film and Media Studies: Let students take production classes! My program was so allergic to it. Reconceptualize coursework. Promote internships. Dual-degree programs with Ed schools in “Media Education,” for better access to K-12 teaching options.
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Y’all, the kids/no kids in academia convo is really loaded and manifesting itself during crisis in some extremely valid but also kinda troubling ways right now. Can we be gentle towards each other? 💚
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Berating students after coming to campus after you’ve begged them to come to campus is...astonishingly bad university messaging.
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