There is a long-overlooked history of Indigenous resistance through mediamaking in Los Angeles. Diné multimedia documentarian Pamela J. Peters is one such artist whose works foreground stories and portraits of urban Natives living in LA. In this essay, I examine her two major photography/film projects Legacy of Exiled NDNZ (2014/2016) and Real…[Read more]

This chapter explores the cultural history around Agnès Varda’s English-language film Lions Love (… and Lies) (1969). Partially an auto-fiction inspired by Varda’s own troubled experience with the Hollywood film industry, the film follows New York filmmaker Shirley Clarke as she stays in Los Angeles to negotiate a studio contract. I propose a read…[Read more]

Miquela (@lilmiquela) is an avatar Instagrammer programmed as a 19-year-old Brown Brazilian-American female influencer and musician. She has garnered a significant amount of popularity, controversies, and hatred as an “it” influencer. A popular transmedia storytelling project like Miquela can provide additional insights toward how social media ima…[Read more]