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The journal is proud to announce the publication of issue 27.06. This
month's articles:


Amanda C. Cote and Brandon Harris -- Combatting Crunch from the Margins:
How Hierarchies of “Realness” Complicate Video Game Production
<https://www.flowjournal.org/2021/04/combatting-crunch/>
<https://www.flowjournal.org/2021/04/combatting-crunch/>

Amanda C. Cote and Brandon Harris discuss the myth of high-quality video
games coming as a result of overworked video game developers.


Alyx Vesey -- Remediating Liveness
<https://www.flowjournal.org/2021/04/remediating-liveness/>
<https://www.flowjournal.org/2021/04/remediating-liveness/>

Drawing on examples such as NPR’s *Tiny Desk (Home) Concert *and
Instagram’s *Verzuz *battles, Alyx Vesey explores how musicians have
utilized online platforms as alternatives to live concerts in the age of
COVID-19.


Christina N. Baker -- “It Feels Right to Me”: Epiphanies, Erotic
Power, and *Eve’s
Bayou* <https://www.flowjournal.org/2021/04/it-feels-right-to-me/>
<https://www.flowjournal.org/2021/04/it-feels-right-to-me/>

Through the work of Judylyn Ryan and Audre Lorde, Christina N. Baker
explores filmmaker Kasi Lemmons's films, *Eve's Bayou *and *Harriet*,
through epiphany, intuition, spirituality, and the erotic.


Orquidea Morales -- Guillermo del Toro: From Mexico to the World
<https://www.flowjournal.org/2021/04/guillermo-del-toro/>
<https://www.flowjournal.org/2021/04/guillermo-del-toro/>

Using Mexican director Guillermo del Toro as a case study, Orquidea Morales
discusses how his films are shaped by transnationalism and consequently
exemplify the contested nature of the genre of Latinx Horror.


Cynthia Meyers -- Pepsi Is Back in the Game (Show)
<https://www.flowjournal.org/2021/04/pepsi-is-back-in-the-game-show/>
<https://www.flowjournal.org/2021/04/pepsi-is-back-in-the-game-show/>

Cynthia Meyers explores several Pepsi advertising campaigns dating back to
the 1940s to contextualize the company's latest venture: sponsoring a new
game show, *Cherries Wild*.


Crystal Camargo -- Crossing the* Sonic Color Line*: TV Voiceover Narration
in *N**ever Have I Ever*
<https://www.flowjournal.org/2021/04/crossing-the-sonic-color-line/>
<https://www.flowjournal.org/2021/04/crossing-the-sonic-color-line/>

Crystal Camargo grapples with how the cultural specificity of Mindy
Kaling's Netflix comedy *Never Have I Ever* is diluted by the sonic
whiteness of the show's narrator, John McEnroe.


Erika M. Heredia and Mel Stanfill -- Reactionary Influencers and the
Construction of White Conservative Victimhood
<https://www.flowjournal.org/2021/04/reactionary-influencers/>
<https://www.flowjournal.org/2021/04/reactionary-influencers/>

Erika M. Heredia and Mel Stanfill examine "reactionary influencers," who
combine right-wing politics, reality-TV style provocations, and new social
media opportunities for fame and fortune.


Andres Lombana-Bermudez -- Creative and Participatory Responses to
Disinformation: The Case of the Bees 🐝 in the 2018 Colombian Presidential
Elections <https://www.flowjournal.org/2021/04/the-case-of-the-bees/>
<https://www.flowjournal.org/2021/04/the-case-of-the-bees/>

Recounting the case of the bees during the 2018 Columbian Presidential
Election, Andres Lombana-Bermudez shows how digital participatory culture
can effectively debunk disinformation.


Eleanor Patterson -- Ugly Crying, *This is Us* and the Discursive Construct
of Emotional Excess
<https://www.flowjournal.org/2021/04/this-is-us-emotional-excess/>
<https://www.flowjournal.org/2021/04/this-is-us-emotional-excess/>

Eleanor Patterson analyzes how the emotional excess of* This is Us*
connects it to historically feminized theorizations of mass culture and
melodrama.


*Flow* <http://flowjournal.org/> is a critical forum on television and
media culture published by the Department of Radio-Television-Film
<https://rtf.utexas.edu/> at the University of Texas at Austin. *Flow*'s
mission is to provide a space where scholars and the public can discuss
media histories, media studies, and the changing landscape of contemporary
media.


--

*MAGGIE STEINHAUER & NATHAN ROSSI*

Managing Editors, Flow: A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
<http://www.flowjournal.org/>

Dept. of Radio-Television-Film | Moody College of Communication | The
University of Texas at Austin

@FlowTV <https://twitter.com/FlowTV>

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