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DESCRIPTION:The UT Department of Radio-Television-Film invites you to atten
 d a Media Studies Colloquium with\nAnthony P. McIntyre\, Associate Lecture
 r\, University College Dublin\n\n"Politicized Emotional Precarity:\nLena D
 unham and Russell Brand's Subversive Vulnerabilities"\n\nAbstract: Taking 
 a cue from recent developments in feminist philosophy\, in this talk Antho
 ny P.  McIntyre argues\, through a detailed reading of the star texts of G
 irls creator and writer Lena Dunham and actor/comedian Russell Brand\, tha
 t vulnerability is an affective register that holds increasing sway in the
  contemporary era\, and one that can be leveraged by celebrities attemptin
 g to negotiate the heightened individualism of their public status with ca
 lls to social justice. Dunham and Brand serve as pertinent case studies in
 to how staged vulnerability\, particularly through the “intimate technol
 ogies” of social media\, but also through screen media more widely\, can
  be leveraged in order to circumvent the (often warranted) accusations of 
 privilege and hypocrisy that invariably dog such celebrity interventions i
 nto the realm of polity.\n\n****\n\nAnthony P. McIntyre recently gained hi
 s doctorate from University College Dublin with a thesis focusing on Mille
 nnial generation youth cultures and the affective registers that are commo
 n in the discursive construction of celebrities appealing to this cohort. 
 He is developing this work into a monograph\, Millennial Tensions. He has 
 delivered papers at a number of international conferences including the an
 nual Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference (Seattle 2014)\, at w
 hich he organized a panel on “The Aesthetics and Ideologies of Cuteness
 ”\, the Biennial Celebrity Studies conference (London 2014) and the Mode
 rn Language Association annual conference (January 2016). He has also been
  an invited speaker at events in Arizona\, Paris\, and Amsterdam.\n\nAntho
 ny has published an article on cuteness in the star-text of actress and si
 nger Zooey Deschanel in the journal Television and New Media. In addition\
 , some of his forthcoming publications include: “Sarah Silverman: Cutene
 ss as Subversion” in Hysterical! Women in American Comedy\, Ed. Linda Mi
 zejewski and Victoria Sturtevant. University of Texas Press\, (in press)\;
  and “Millennials Protest: Hipsters\, Privilege\, and Homological Obstru
 ction\,” In New Uses of Bourdieu in Film and Media Studies\, Ed. Guy Aus
 tin. Bergahn\, (in press).  He is co-editing The Aesthetics and Affects of
  Cuteness (with Joshua Paul Dale\, Joyce Goggin\, Julia Leyda\, and Diane 
 Negra\, Routledge\, 2017) and is also in the early stages of developing a 
 follow-up project in the field of cuteness studies to be co-written with h
 is co-editor on The Aesthetics and Affects of Cuteness\, Julia Leyda. Prov
 isionally entitled Feeling Machines: Robo Sapiens in Late Capitalist Popul
 ar Culture\, this research project will extend their research into the aff
 ective realm inhabited by cuteified robots across a variety of texts and m
 edia.\n\n***\n\nThe RTF Colloquium offers a platform for faculty across UT
 \, advanced doctoral students\, and visiting scholars to present their res
 earch. This lecture series is designed to expose students to the diversity
  of media studies scholarship\, provide models for research presentations\
 , and enable advanced graduate students to present work related to their d
 issertation projects. While the colloquium is required for media studies g
 raduate students and faculty\, others are welcome to attend. A Q&A session
  will follow each 40-minute presentation.
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LOCATION:Belo Center for New Media (BMC)\, 5.102
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