In the Mix: The Collaborative Video Essay in Theory and Praxis: SCMS Workshop for 2018 conference

Scandal Skepticism

We can see the lineage--a line from Pam Grier to Kerry Washington. Scandal may offer an exhilarating 'tease' for revenge/power fantasies. Yet its twisted rhetoric and logic of autocracy and survivalism (triumphalism?) helped pave the way for a Trump (anything goes) White House.

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