Spectator

Produced by the Division of Critical Studies, Spectator is the school's premier journal for film and television criticism. This internationally distiguished journal, which is published twice annually, carries insightful articles and research findings by Critical Studies students on a broad range of topics.

Begun over 28 years ago by founding editor Professor Marsha Kinder, and guided each year by managing editor William Whittington, Spectator is available to the general public by subscription. Individual: $15 per year within the U.S. and Canada, $20 outside. Institutional: $30 per year within the U.S. and Canada, $40 outside.

Spectator is indexed in: Film Literature Index; IIPA

For additional information email spectator@cinema.usc.edu or phone 213.740.3334.


Current Editions:

Fall 2008

René Thoreau Bruckner
Editor's Introduction
No Time Like the Present

Sarah Gordon
Out of Sequence: Suspended and Spectacular Bodies in Eadweard Muybridge's Animal Locomotion Series

Kris Belden-Adams
Time Implosion in N.A.S.A.'s Whole-Earth Photographs

Scott Combs
Cut: Execution, Editing, and Instant Death

Maria Walsh
The Registration of the Cinematic Instant in Film Installation

Christopher Hanson
The Instant Replay: Time and Time Again

René Thoreau Bruckner
Travels in Flicker-Time (Madre!)

Irene Small
One Thing After Another:
How We Spend Time in Hélio Oiticica's Quasi-Cinemas

James Leo Cahill
Anacinema: Peter Tscherkassky's Cinematic Breakdowns—Towards the Unspeakable Film

Thomas Stubblefield
Book Review
The Virtual Life of Film

Spring 2008

Jennifer Clark
Editor's Introduction
Producing Television

Margo Miller
The Bob Cummings Show's "Artists at 'Work' ": Gender Transitive Programming and Counterpublicity

Andrea Kelley
"Be(ing) More" than Television: The PBS Brand as Post-Network TV

Kathleen Hladky
The Prince of the Power of the Air: Media and the End of the World in the Word of Faith Movement

Christopher Hanson
Television Sport Broadcasting and Technology: "If It's in the (Video) Game, It's in the Game"

Scott Ruston
Television Narratives in the Palm of Your Hand: Understanding Mobisodes

Mary Jeanne Wilson
"Make Them Wait": Fan Manipulation of the Soap Opera
Narrative Structure through Elimination and Compilation of Storylines

Robert Dunks
Book Review
Janet McCabe and Kim Akass,
Quality TV: Contemporary American Television and Beyond

Phyllis Zrzavy
Book Review
Amanda D. Lotz,
The Television Will Be Revolutionized