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J. D. Connor

J. D. Connor is an associate professor of cinema and media studies at the University of Southern California. He is the author of Hollywood Math and Aftermath: The Economic Image and the Digital Recession (2018) and The Studios After the Studios (2015).

Universal Solvent: Experiencing Mario

J. D. Connor reflects on the seemingly endless mutability of the Super Mario Bros. franchise....

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FILM

The Algorithmic Hustle: Surplus Comedy and Hollywood Specwork

J. D. Connor discusses Netflix’s business model, specwork in comedy, and the extraction of surplus value from Black labor....

J. D. CONNOR

TELEVISION

Going Klear: A Glass Onion Franchise in the Wild

J. D. Connor asks why Netflix spent $450 million to acquire the “Glass Onion” franchise....

J. D. CONNOR

FILM

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The Funnel and the Horn: On Reinventing James Cameron’s “Avatar”

J. D. CONNOR

ECONOMICS AND FINANCE

FILM

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Put Some “Mank” on It

J. D. CONNOR

FILM

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J. D. CONNOR

FILM

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Finish Him

J. D. CONNOR

FILM

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Rebel Yale: Reading and Feeling “Hillbilly Elegy”

FLORENCE DORE, J. D. CONNOR, DAN SINYKIN

EDUCATION

POLITICS

MEMOIR & ESSAY

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Variety Show

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TELEVISION

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The Warrior Class

J. D. CONNOR

FILM

POLITICS

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FILM NOW: A Roundtable on the Films of 2016

ANNA SHECHTMAN, J. D. CONNOR, GIL ROBERTSON, CATHY SCHULMAN, JUSTIN CHANG

FILM

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Making Things Right: “Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens”

J. D. CONNOR

FILM

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