Casey Joe Walker
@caseyjoewalker.bsky.social
Film Professor - University of Maryland GC
PhD Candidate, Assistant Instructor - UT Austin, Radio-Television-Film
PhD Candidate, Assistant Instructor - UT Austin, Radio-Television-Film
Happy Halloween, folks.
October 31, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Happy Halloween, folks.
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What does HBO’s “The Franchise” tell us about the role of fandom in today’s highly franchised media environment? Read on to find out! ⬇️
In a new essay, @aca-laurel.bsky.social examines the role of the fanboy auteur in HBO's backstage comedy "The Franchise," which satirizes Hollywood's superhero industrial complex. Read: www.flowjournal.org/2025/07/fanb...
July 30, 2025 at 9:47 PM
What does HBO’s “The Franchise” tell us about the role of fandom in today’s highly franchised media environment? Read on to find out! ⬇️
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Second stop of the day — panel: “Invisible and Forgotten Labor in Classical Hollywood.” Talks by
Myrna Moretti, Kristen Hatch, Casey Walker and Milan Hain
#HWC2025
Myrna Moretti, Kristen Hatch, Casey Walker and Milan Hain
#HWC2025
July 18, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Second stop of the day — panel: “Invisible and Forgotten Labor in Classical Hollywood.” Talks by
Myrna Moretti, Kristen Hatch, Casey Walker and Milan Hain
#HWC2025
Myrna Moretti, Kristen Hatch, Casey Walker and Milan Hain
#HWC2025
Talked to my History of American Television students today about the new line of White Lotus coffee creamers
March 25, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Talked to my History of American Television students today about the new line of White Lotus coffee creamers
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At last! My article on the many failures (for now?) of the Mulan remake and the need to situate them within a longer history of Disney and China.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
Live-action mistake: Disney’s Mulan (2020), failure analysis, and media industry studies: New Review of Film and Television Studies: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access
www.tandfonline.com
December 24, 2024 at 2:18 PM
At last! My article on the many failures (for now?) of the Mulan remake and the need to situate them within a longer history of Disney and China.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
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Great review of @petecant.bsky.social’s book STAGING A COMEBACK. Buy it, read it, cite it (and request that your university/local library buy it).
...Matthew Elfenbein explores Pete Kunze's "Staging a Comeback: Broadway, Hollywood, and the Disney Renaissance" (www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/staging-a-co...), "a brilliant book with insightful information that will benefit scholarly and public discourse."
intellectdiscover.com/content/jour...
intellectdiscover.com/content/jour...
Staging a Comeback - Rutgers University Press
In the early 1980s, Walt Disney Productions was struggling, largely bolstered by the success of its theme parks. Within fifteen years, however, it had become...
www.rutgersuniversitypress.org
December 18, 2024 at 8:58 AM
Great review of @petecant.bsky.social’s book STAGING A COMEBACK. Buy it, read it, cite it (and request that your university/local library buy it).
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It’s arrived! @kfortmueller.bsky.social and I are so thrilled to have this out in the world (and done). Get your copy of #HollywoodUnions from @rutgersupress.bsky.social now!
December 3, 2024 at 9:14 PM
It’s arrived! @kfortmueller.bsky.social and I are so thrilled to have this out in the world (and done). Get your copy of #HollywoodUnions from @rutgersupress.bsky.social now!