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X-WR-CALNAME:Screen Time: Television\, Society\, and Identity 
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DESCRIPTION:Authors and creators will discuss the role of TV in society his
 torically and today\, including connections to politics\, queer spectators
 hip\, and representations of race\, class\, and gender.\n\n·       David 
 Craig is a Clinical Professor of Communication and director of the Global 
 Media and Communication program at USC. An expert in Hollywood\, Chinese\,
  and social media industries\; a television historian\; an Emmy-nominated 
 producer and television executive\; and a pioneer in the field of Creator 
 Studies at USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism\, his mos
 t recent books is Apocalypse Television\n\n·       How The Day After Help
 ed End the Cold War.\n\n·       Anthony Sparks is showrunner\, head write
 r\, and executive producer of the TV drama\, Queen Sugar\, created by Ava 
 DuVernay and executive produced by Oprah Winfrey and writer/producer for t
 he Iron Mike series on Hulu. A former cast member of Broadway hit STOMP\, 
 he holds three degrees from USC (BFA\, MA\, and Ph.D.)\, where he studied 
 Theatre\, Film\, Anthropology\, and American History.\n\n·       Karen To
 ngson is the author of Normporn: Queer Viewers and the TV That Soothes Us\
 , Why Karen Carpenter Matters (one of Pitchfork’s best music books of 20
 19)\, and Relocations: Queer Suburban Imaginaries. In 2019\, she was award
 ed Lambda Literary’s Jeanne Córdova Prize for Lesbian/Queer Nonfiction.
  She directs the Mellon-funded Consortium for Gender\, Sexuality\, Race\, 
 and Public Culture at USC\, where she is also Chair and professor of Gende
 r and Sexuality Studies and professor of English and American Studies and 
 Ethnicity. \n\n·       Moderator: Tara McPherson is the HMH Foundation En
 dowed Professor at the USC School of Cinematic Arts and director of the Si
 dney Harman Academy for Polymathic Study. She is author of Feminist in a S
 oftware Lab and Reconstructing Dixie\, co-editor of Hop on Pop and Transme
 dia Frictions\, and editor of Digital Youth\, Innovation and the Unexpecte
 d. She was founding editor of the pioneering multimedia journal Vectors an
 d the lead PI of the online platform Scalar. She has received funding from
  the Mellon\, Ford\, Annenberg\, and MacArthur foundations\, as well as fr
 om the NEH.
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LOCATION:Wallis Annenberg Hall (ANN)
SUMMARY:Screen Time: Television\, Society\, and Identity 
URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.usc.edu/event/screen-time-television-society
 -and-identity
CATEGORIES:Lecture / Talk / Workshop
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