Justin Rawlins, PhD

Publications
Journal Articles
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“Off the Grid but on the Radar: The Real and Ordinary in Alaskan TV Celebrity.” Celebrity Studies. 9.4 (2018): 426-441.
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Rawlins, Justin. “Introduction: TV and Performance.” Journal of Film and Video 68.3-4 (2016): n. pag. Print.
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Rawlins, Justin. “Over His Dead Body: Hedda Hopper and the Story of James Dean.” The Velvet Light Trap 71.1 (2013): 27–41. Print.
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Rawlins , J. This is(n’t) John Wayne: The Miscasting and Performance of Whiteness in The Conquerer. Vol. 27, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, 2010, pp. 14-26.
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Rawlins , J. “Historical Lessons in Hysterical Tragedy: John Garfield, Reception, and Re-Conceptualizing Method Acting.”.
Book Chapters
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Rawlins, Justin. “Your Guide to the Girls: Gilmore-Isms, Cultural Capital, and a Different Kind of Quality TV.” Screwball Television: Critical Perspectives on Gilmore Girls. Ed. David Scott Diffrient and David Lavery. Syracuse University Press, 2010. 35–56. Print.
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Rawlins , J. “‘‘Tell Them We Are Gone’: Imperial Narratives, Indigenous Perspectives, and Serial Prestige in AMC’s The Terror.’”. Contemporary American Prestige Television: Cultural and Artistic Value in the Multiplatform Era.
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“The Authentically Bruised Cruise: Tom Cruise, Mission Impossible, and the intimacy of extreme performative labor.” Starring Tom Cruise. Sean Redmond, ed. Book under contract with Wayne State University Press. In progress.
Blog Posts
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Rawlins , J. “Performing Proximity to Fame in RU Talkin’ R.E.M. RE: Me?”. In Media Res, 2019.
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Rawlins , J. “What’s in a Frame? Paratexts, Performance, and Joaquin Phoenix in Joker. Flow: A Critical Forum on Media and Culture, 2019.
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“Tulsa’s Inaugural Home Movie Fest: Seeing Ourselves as Others See Us.” Oklahoma Center for the Humanities Blog Mar. 2018.
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“Home and Homelands in Television’s Last Frontier.” Oklahoma Center for the Humanities Blog 27 Oct. 2017.
Manuscripts
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Rawlins , J. Method Men: Reception and Revision in American Performance.
Book Reviews
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Rawlins , J. Review of Almost Hollywood, Nearly New Orleans: The Lure of the Local Film Economy, by Vicki Mayer. Vol. 6, Media Industries, 2019.
Other
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Rawlins , J. Afflicted Agents, Contested Spaces: Performance, Disability, and Female Protagonism in Homeland and The Bridge. In Media Res, 2014.
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Rawlins, Justin, and Zenia Kish. “‘Telling Stories Is the Most Powerful Thing’: Kony 2012 and Narrative [Dis]Unity.” In Media Res (2012): n. pag. Print.
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Rawlins, Justin. “What Kind of ‘South’ Rises from the (Walking) Dead?” In Media Res (2012): n. pag. Print.
Courses Taught
- Senior Project
- Film History
- Special Topics
- Special Topics in Women's and Gender Studies I
- Mediated Meaning: Celebrity, Tourism And Style
- Independent Study
- Internship
- Film Theory and Criticism
- Independent Readings
- Media, Culture and Power
- Media Production and Criticism
Professional Affiliations
- American Studies Association
- Society for Cinema and Media Studies
Awards & Honors
- Most Valuable Professor