This whitepaper report gives an overview of a variety of “superapps,” apps designed to bring together a vast number of services within a single interface. The purpose of this report is to provide a general understanding of the super app form as it becomes a dominant global framework, and to consider platform capitalism’s transformational shape.

This Lab Report tackles streaming platforms from the angle of anime, one of the prime contents used to gather viewers and subscribers, and their dollars and data. Focused on the circulation of anime on transnational platforms, this Report addresses the rush, over the past decade, for streaming platforms to invest in anime and its audience, up to…[Read more]

Introduction to journal issue on queer representation in animation.

Este artículo analiza los estudios del ani-me contemporáneo y cómo se cruzan con el pensamiento político del filósofo y crítico Walter Benjamin (1892-1940). A través de un examen de los escritos de Benjamin sobre arte y política, junto con la teoría crítica de la producción y el consumo de anime, este ensayo destaca los potencia-les políticos…[Read more]

There’s a Japanese film industry, and then there’s ‘Japanese Cinema’ – a construct we imagine and create through the stories we tell about it. In the past, ‘Japanese Cinema’ has been imagined in the West as a story of auteurs (Ozu, Mizoguchi, Kurosawa), esoteric national styles (Ozu’s tatami-inspired low- level frame), and bizarre genres (Pink ei…[Read more]

This essay explores Michelangelo Antonioni’s “L’Avventura” from a Marxist perspective, including its depiction of the Italian bourgeoisie of “il boom” era of the 1950s and 1960s. Numerous frame enlargements are used to substantiate the claim that even the film’s style contributes to its representations of socioeconomic class.

This article investigates the representation of Italian Americans in classical and contemporary Hollywood cinema, expanding the research originally conducted by noted scholar Mirella Affron.