Emanuelle Wessels
As contributor
As commenter
-
Branding
Hi Raechel! I agree that something really intriguing is going on with branding and social media. Recently, there was a New York Times article on the HBO show Enlightened where someone from HBO acknowledged that social media buzz could compensate for low r ... -
Girls & Profits
Great questions, Nedda. I suspect that HBO's profits from these tie ins fall on a spectrum ranging from direct and tangible (licensing fees from the nail polish company using the characters) to the more amorphous and speculative (more visibility =mor ... -
Politics
Thanks for that link! I agree that the political position that she is crafting through all of these spaces is casually liberal; in an undeveloped and superficial way. I find it fascinating that she chose to write Sandy, as Girls' only major Black cha ... -
Thanks
Thanks for that citation, and thanks for a great post! I haven't seen these recaps or the commentary surrounding them, but they seems to fit in with my interests in paratexts and convergence regarding this show and its secondary and tertiary texts. ... -
Quality
Hi Karen, I agree. There is something intriguing going on with Girls that speaks to shifts in branding (I think) in the social media age. I suspect that part of what is going on is that Dunham-and HBO-are retooling the notion of quality to involve buzz an ... -
Season 2 E1
Speaking of race, what did you think of the opening scene of the premiere?? Was this Dunham issuing a massive 'fuck you' to her diversity critics? ... -
I sort of felt like she was
I sort of felt like she was side-stepping the question by plunging right in to the sex scene. By neither introducing Glover as a character first, nor writing in anything involving Hannah mulling over anything involving interracial issues/dating drama (whi ... -
Glover and Dunham
I agree that the scene with Glover was a direct response to her critics who criticized the show's lack of minority characters/diversity. I guess I read the scene as a more aggressive, pointed response-like she felt compelled to get the scene out ther ... -
Tokenism
Yes! I was thinking something similar-that by introducing Sandy without context in the sex scene, she was automatically tonkenzing/fetishizing him. It felt really defensive and problematic. ... -
Space and Place
Hi Raechel, Your post got me thinking about space and place. Although most of the criticism for Girls' lack of diversity (legitimately) focuses on Dunham's whitewashed New York City, an equally important aspect of the show's inspiration see ...