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Open Television (OTV) is a Chicago-based, award-winning, online platform for intersectional television that functions as both an entertainment site and a project of research and development. Offering financing, consultation, and referrals to get independent television projects through to completion, OTV provides a space for different communities to come together to express and experience culture, have critical conversations about identity, and encounter people united by intersectionality. We are pleased to present the East Coast premiere of four new program episodes, none of which are yet available online. Stay tuned for new episodes of Conspiracy Theorist, Code-Switched, Sex is A God Thing, and Sweaty Scales.
Introduction by Shawn Shimpach (UMass).
OTV’s Founder and Head of Development and Research, Aymar Jean Christian, will be present.
Co-sponsored by the Department of Communication
Introduced By
Shawn Shimpach is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Massachusetts - Amherst and Director of the Massachusetts Multicultural Film Festival. He holds a PhD in Cinema Studies from New York University. He is editor of The Routledge Companion to Global Television (2020) and author of Television in Transition: The Life and Afterlife of the Narrative Action Hero (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010). His work has also appeared in such journals as Cultural Studies, Social Semiotics, American Quarterly, Feminist Media Histories, and the Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television.