gnovis [nō'vĩs], n., Georgetown University’s peer-reviewed Journal of Communication, Culture & Technology (CCT)
gnovis [nō'vĩs], n., Georgetown University’s peer-reviewed Journal of Communication, Culture & Technology (CCT)
This fall gnovis put out a call for its first academic year themed issue, Difference. Managing Editor Akoto Ofori-Atta and myself felt strongly that our final publication as gnovis Editors should be one that focused specifically on issues of power, marginalization and difference areas that are of great personal significance to us as black women. Aware that there were many graduate students already speaking to these issues in their work, we were excited in September to see what a targeted call for papers would produce. Our authors did not disappoint!
Abstract: This essay examines the concept of masculinity as central to competitive televised sport. In post-civil rights America, the image of the Black individual, particularly the Black male, continues to be controlled by a predominantly white-owned media. The NBA exemplifies … Continue reading
In the late 1970s, Hollywood cinema entered the blockbuster era. Since then, action movies have been the major productions representing blockbusters. They served as a strategic move to wrestle off the competition from television and other home entertainment. Ensured by the speedy development of computer-supported filmmaking technology, the blockbuster movie still maintains its dominance in today’s market. Continue reading
Abstract: This paper examines the narrative strategies of David LaChapelle’s 2005 documentary film Rize, and the representations of blackness therein. LaChapelle’s film characterizes his subjects, the krumpers and clown dancers of South Central Los Angeles, as exceptional given their violent … Continue reading
Abstract: Using The Ugly American as a cultural document this essay attempts to explain how and why the title of this particular novel has outlived the success of its content. Drawing upon a variety of secondary sources this essay intervenes … Continue reading
Abstract: This paper explores the landscape of hip-hop in connection to video games, a multilayered site, affected by several interconnected factors such as the closing of potential avenues of economic success for black male youth, the commodification of hip-hop and … Continue reading
