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SCM Colloquium Series Presents: New Network Men: Post-Network Television and the Rhetoric of Masculinity.
Brent Malin’s research covers a range of contemporary and historical topics in order to understand the myriad ways in which people’s identities are constituted by and through the media. Malin’s first book, American Masculinity under Clinton: Popular Media and the Nineties Crisis of Masculinity, explores conceptions of masculinity offered by a wide range of sources from the 1990s and early 21st century. Drawing together analyses of such popular culture examples as Friends,Titanic, and The Sopranos, Malin illustrates how a rhetoric of masculine crisis has been used to support a range of economic, political, and cultural aims. His second book, Feeling Mediated: A History of Media Technology and Emotion in America, investigates how changes in communication technology change how people think about emotion. Outside of these two books, Malin’s research has explored a variety of other historical and contemporary issues, from the media research of early 20th century psychologist Carl Seashore to the notions of masculinity depicted on the police drama The Shield.