Samantha Close

Assistant Professor of Communication at DePaul University. Here for fandom, anti-work politics, popular culture, and digital media.

[Queline @kikikrazed]

OUT NOW: New collection from The Essay Library of 15 video essays based on the prompt "things that don't exist." All interpretations were welcome: fan theories/lost media/mythbusting/etc. Some even made up new media.

Here's what you'll find in "These Video Essays Do Not Exist"🧵

[Samantha Close @ButNoCigar]

@dickgirldebord Did my best to capture your brilliance!

[Samantha Close @ButNoCigar]

@AndyOwens85 Oooh... can you give us a quick definition?

[Samantha Close @ButNoCigar]

@AmandaAnnKlein @ConsolePassions I'm going to be doing the same with the Practice of Videographic Criticism t-shirt on Saturday!

[Samantha Close @ButNoCigar]

Also, unfortunately Julia Rose Camus couldn't make it to the conference! #scms23

[Samantha Close @ButNoCigar]

I've really enjoyed #ungrading this past quarter! There is a lot to be said for integrating the form of a class with the content.

[SCMSPedagogy @SCMSPedagogy]

SIG members @jenn_blaylock, @NicHentrich, and Lisa Jacobson ran an excellent session on experiments in #ungrading at #SCMS23. They've graciously assembled materials to share with everyone! Link below. @SCMStudies

https://t.co/0gwZmZpGRs

[Samantha Close @ButNoCigar]

@dickgirldebord .@dickgirldebord : viewing alternative & queer pleasure following traumatic ones allows you to create different connections & associations in the brain, helping to process (see a wounded woman thrive in her pleasure) rather than simply traumatizing for its own sake #C30 #scms23

[Samantha Close @ButNoCigar]

Next up! @dickgirldebord on "A Snake of June and Sexual Boundary-Blurring's Self-Actualizing Potential" @SCMSQT #C30 #scms23

[Samantha Close @ButNoCigar]

@dickgirldebord .@dickgirldebord : act of viewing a film like this, with its admittedly distressing scenes, is difficult but can act as an adaptive mechanism for dealing with trauma - act of viewing as "limit consent" #C30 #scms23

[Samantha Close @ButNoCigar]

Heidi Ka-Sin Lee: The sapphic dispositif symptomatic of demand for exploration of women's feelings & thoughts, re-centering of white supremacy through stars' normative whiteness, & shift in female representation to present more authentic & unexaggerated femininity #c30 #scms24

[Samantha Close @ButNoCigar]

First up! Heidi Ka-Sin Lee "When the Star, the Lesbian, and the Close-up Align: Character and Spectatorial Reciprocation in the Sapphic Dispositif" #c30 #scms24 @SCMSQT

[Samantha Close @ButNoCigar]

Heidi Ka-Sin Lee: "all these dispositive effects activated by the close-up center on the lesbians' intense interiority, involuntarily juxtaposed with the actresses' own star and screen personae" from close-up dispositive effects to a broader "sapphic dispositif"? #c30 #scms24