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Ralph Beliveau

University of Oklahoma, Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication, Faculty Member

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Dr. Beliveau teaches in the Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication. His research focuses on critical media literacy and learning, media criticism, film/video studies, popular culture, documentary theory production and history, and rhetorical criticism. He has written about network society, horror media, The Wire, African American biographical documentaries, Alex Cox, and Paolo Freire and media literacy. At the University of Iowa he completed his Ph.D. and a program in Rhetoric of Inquiry, and received a B.S. in media production from Northwestern University.

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Perspectives: The Weird in Literature and Media (1.16.24 ver) - Syllabus

The Weird in Literature and Media Sitting at the intersection among folk stories, horror, and sci... more The Weird in Literature and Media Sitting at the intersection among folk stories, horror, and science fiction, The Weird is a significant conceptualization of storytelling in a variety of different media forms. Many authors, podcasters, filmmakers, and social media participants spend energy and attention on different kinds of stories that fall within the Weird.

Critical Media and Information Literacy in the Classroom: Practical Applications and Theoretical Foundations

by Ralph Beliveau and Julie Frechette

Although much has been written on the theoretical foundations of critical media and information l... more Although much has been written on the theoretical foundations of critical media and information literacy, there is a dearth in terms of the practical ways to incorporate it into the college classroom. This quick fire panel seeks to address this and will provide attendees with varied ways to incorporate critical media literacy and critical information literacy into their classes, address issues of student resistance as well as delineate their own critical media and information literacy influences. Notable writers in the field including Julie Frechette and Jeff Share have agreed to be part of this panel. Spencer Brayton and Natasha Casey will bring perspectives from their critical media and information literacy collaboration. We anticipate an additional two participants

The Promise of #MeToo as a Theoretical Lens

SUNY Press eBooks, Apr 1, 2022

Classes Taught at the University of Oklahoma 2004-2024

Ralph Beliveau vita

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A Hunger for Dead Cakes: Visions of Abjection, Scapegoating, and the Sin-Eater

“A Shot on the Devil”: Female Hunters and the Identification of Evil in Supernatural

Palgrave Macmillan US eBooks, 2014

Supernatural relates to the Gothic ancestry of horror, where terror arises from supernatural agen... more Supernatural relates to the Gothic ancestry of horror, where terror arises from supernatural agents rather than the atrocities of crime and war. But one element ties the Gothic to the contemporary: the emphasis on the vulnerability of family. Robin Wood observes that in the 1970s horror moved from the Europe of the (Gothic) past to contemporary (post-1970s) America, where family is the source of both security and threat. The obsession with family relations and their vulnerability drives much of Supernatural. Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles) Winchester’s desire for family—and connections with significant women—is consistently thwarted by the dangers around them. They live in the world of the “hunter” where family is vulnerable. Evil often invades “the life” and malevolency follows. The series can be read as Sam and Dean’s constant quest to keep each other safe while they protect the normal world from the world of monsters. Domesticity, then, creates an opportunity to study how evil is constructed in the show. At the same time, as both Julia M. Wright and Lorrie Palmer have argued, Supernatural presents a primarily masculine point of view and the understanding of evil in Supernatural is almost exclusively masculine, with only a few exceptions.

Digital Literacy

A Topology of Guillermo del Toro

Intellect Books, Dec 11, 2016

News Talk: Investigating the Language of Journalism

Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, May 25, 2011

In speech and language communities with developed spheres of journalism, news talk functions as o... more In speech and language communities with developed spheres of journalism, news talk functions as one of the most authoritative-and potentially influential-forms of linguistic action. How do journalists produce this authoritative discourse? Under what assumptions, ideologies, and constraints are they working on a daily basis? Research into the language of news journalism has blossomed over the past several years, but textual and formal linguistic approaches have tended to sideline the ethnographic attention that would answer these key questions. In this valuable and much-anticipated contribution to the burgeoning field of media anthropology, Colleen Cotter brings a practice-oriented ethnographic approach to investigating the language of traditional newspaper journalism in the contemporary United States and United Kingdom. As a linguist writing from the perspective of a native practitioner of the journalistic craft, Cotter regularly bridges journalistic practice and sociolinguistic analysis, drawing on her experience as a news reporter and editor to offer unusual first-person insight into the newsmaking process. In this monograph, she marries methodological approaches from interactional sociolinguistics with a linguistic anthropological emphasis on ethnographic context to examine production at newspapers of varying scope, from The Washington Post to The Irish Emigrant Newsletter. The result is an innovative contribution to sociolinguistics, media studies, studies of professionalism and professional socialization, and the growing anthropology of media. Within anthropology, it should benefit both specialists in media ethnography and ethnographers who might use journalists' work as primary data. Cotter provides not only a detailed production study for dedicated students of media language, but also a guide to news processes for anthropologists and linguists interested in, for example, how a lead is fashioned or what criteria place a story on page 3 rather than page 1. The reader is introduced to dominant practice traditions within the speech community of professional print journalists, including the "news values," "language attitudes," and emphases on "craft" and "community" that guide daily linguistic decision making. In the introduction and chapter 1, Cotter explains her intervention as one of attending to "the process and practice of everyday journalism" (p. 13), "including the norms and routines of the community of news practitioners," rather than exclusively to text (p. 21). Chapter 1 provides a useful overview of existing studies of media discourse, which, as Cotter points out, have tended to focus on its structure, its linguistic function, and/or the ideologies reflected within and spread by it, especially as developed in studies of linguistic variation, framing, and style and within critical discourse analysis (CDA). While sensitive to (and, indeed, drawing on) the insights generated by research within these frameworks, Cotter positions her work more squarely within the ethnography of communication in the Hymesian tradition. By the "news talk" and "language of journalism" referenced in her title, she thus means to include not only the texts of news stories, but also the "talk that occurs in the course of accomplishing communicative and discursive tasks, between and among members of a community," such as conversations between journalists and meta-discourse about newswriting (p. 23). The remainder of Part I details how journalists are socialized into the "primary values" of craft and community (chapter 2), reporting and editing standards, and news culture more broadly (chapter 3). Much of this is learned in university journalism programs, but Cotter also stresses that "[t]he 'apprentice model' is the operative learning format in the journalist's world," such that the newsroom is as much a locus of learning as the classroom (p. 63). These chapters could be read independently as an introduction to journalists' professionalization. bs_bs_banner E106 Journal of Linguistic Anthropology

Detecting black: urban African American noir

Character Actors In Horror and Science Fiction Films, 1930-1960. Laurence Raw. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2012. 232 pp. $45 paper

The Journal of Popular Culture, Dec 1, 2013

Cultural Studies <=> Critical Methodologies, Aug 1, 2015

This discussion among a community at the University of Oklahoma came from work presented at an ev... more This discussion among a community at the University of Oklahoma came from work presented at an event called “After Trayvon.” Several issues about social justice, African-American bodies, the experience of microagressions, the role and responsibility of local police, and the critical roles of history and the media were discussed in a forum with the public.

A Culture of Cultural Studies: an introduction

Journal of Communication Inquiry, Oct 1, 1997

What is the object of cultural studies? If we want to reconsider cultural studies we need an obje... more What is the object of cultural studies? If we want to reconsider cultural studies we need an object for our attention. So what of the subject of cultural studies? Are we explained by Judith Butler&#39;s paradox of subjection: that we are the instrument of agency and at the same time the effect of subordination, or the deprivation of agency? (Butler, 1997, p. 10). Perhaps we are in a discursive formation that one learns (or has learned) to understand, and from that point on the formation partially constitutes its learner—its &quot;taught.&quot; Our investigations then become a kind a literacy, a way of seeing :

The Critical Intersection of Documentary & Journalism:<i>Hell House</i>and Rhetorical Articulation

Atlantic Journal of Communication, Apr 13, 2012

Because of their mutual interest in nonfiction storytelling, documentary and journalism are assum... more Because of their mutual interest in nonfiction storytelling, documentary and journalism are assumed to be quite similar, which results in confusion and misunderstanding. This article addresses this problem by analyzing the differences between these two forms, demonstrating ways in which documentary can help to articulate journalism, enhancing our literacy in both areas. After an analytic discussion of these differences, an

â€œA Shot on the Devilâ€

Palgrave Macmillan eBooks, Oct 10, 2014

Slender Man Is Coming: Creepypasta and Contemporary Legends on the Internet. Trevor J.Blank and LynneMcNeill. Utah State University Press, 2018

The Journal of American Culture, Dec 1, 2019

A Topology of Guillermo del Toro

International Horror Film Directors

Gaylord Professor, Professor of Journalism & Mass Communication Area Head -Media Arts (Creative Media Production and Professional Writing) Affiliate faculty -Film and Media Studies Core Affiliate Faculty -Women's and Gender Studies

Vita, 2023

Interdepartmental certificate program focusing on rhetorical construction of disciplines, and int... more

A Topology of Guillermo del Toro

Intellect Books, Dec 11, 2016

Perspectives: The Weird in Literature and Media (1.16.24 ver) - Syllabus

The Weird in Literature and Media Sitting at the intersection among folk stories, horror, and sci... more The Weird in Literature and Media Sitting at the intersection among folk stories, horror, and science fiction, The Weird is a significant conceptualization of storytelling in a variety of different media forms. Many authors, podcasters, filmmakers, and social media participants spend energy and attention on different kinds of stories that fall within the Weird.

Critical Media and Information Literacy in the Classroom: Practical Applications and Theoretical Foundations

by Ralph Beliveau and Julie Frechette

Although much has been written on the theoretical foundations of critical media and information l... more Although much has been written on the theoretical foundations of critical media and information literacy, there is a dearth in terms of the practical ways to incorporate it into the college classroom. This quick fire panel seeks to address this and will provide attendees with varied ways to incorporate critical media literacy and critical information literacy into their classes, address issues of student resistance as well as delineate their own critical media and information literacy influences. Notable writers in the field including Julie Frechette and Jeff Share have agreed to be part of this panel. Spencer Brayton and Natasha Casey will bring perspectives from their critical media and information literacy collaboration. We anticipate an additional two participants

The Promise of #MeToo as a Theoretical Lens

SUNY Press eBooks, Apr 1, 2022

Classes Taught at the University of Oklahoma 2004-2024

Ralph Beliveau vita

vita

A Hunger for Dead Cakes: Visions of Abjection, Scapegoating, and the Sin-Eater

“A Shot on the Devil”: Female Hunters and the Identification of Evil in Supernatural

Palgrave Macmillan US eBooks, 2014

Supernatural relates to the Gothic ancestry of horror, where terror arises from supernatural agen... more Supernatural relates to the Gothic ancestry of horror, where terror arises from supernatural agents rather than the atrocities of crime and war. But one element ties the Gothic to the contemporary: the emphasis on the vulnerability of family. Robin Wood observes that in the 1970s horror moved from the Europe of the (Gothic) past to contemporary (post-1970s) America, where family is the source of both security and threat. The obsession with family relations and their vulnerability drives much of Supernatural. Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles) Winchester’s desire for family—and connections with significant women—is consistently thwarted by the dangers around them. They live in the world of the “hunter” where family is vulnerable. Evil often invades “the life” and malevolency follows. The series can be read as Sam and Dean’s constant quest to keep each other safe while they protect the normal world from the world of monsters. Domesticity, then, creates an opportunity to study how evil is constructed in the show. At the same time, as both Julia M. Wright and Lorrie Palmer have argued, Supernatural presents a primarily masculine point of view and the understanding of evil in Supernatural is almost exclusively masculine, with only a few exceptions.

Digital Literacy

A Topology of Guillermo del Toro

Intellect Books, Dec 11, 2016

News Talk: Investigating the Language of Journalism

Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, May 25, 2011

In speech and language communities with developed spheres of journalism, news talk functions as o... more In speech and language communities with developed spheres of journalism, news talk functions as one of the most authoritative-and potentially influential-forms of linguistic action. How do journalists produce this authoritative discourse? Under what assumptions, ideologies, and constraints are they working on a daily basis? Research into the language of news journalism has blossomed over the past several years, but textual and formal linguistic approaches have tended to sideline the ethnographic attention that would answer these key questions. In this valuable and much-anticipated contribution to the burgeoning field of media anthropology, Colleen Cotter brings a practice-oriented ethnographic approach to investigating the language of traditional newspaper journalism in the contemporary United States and United Kingdom. As a linguist writing from the perspective of a native practitioner of the journalistic craft, Cotter regularly bridges journalistic practice and sociolinguistic analysis, drawing on her experience as a news reporter and editor to offer unusual first-person insight into the newsmaking process. In this monograph, she marries methodological approaches from interactional sociolinguistics with a linguistic anthropological emphasis on ethnographic context to examine production at newspapers of varying scope, from The Washington Post to The Irish Emigrant Newsletter. The result is an innovative contribution to sociolinguistics, media studies, studies of professionalism and professional socialization, and the growing anthropology of media. Within anthropology, it should benefit both specialists in media ethnography and ethnographers who might use journalists' work as primary data. Cotter provides not only a detailed production study for dedicated students of media language, but also a guide to news processes for anthropologists and linguists interested in, for example, how a lead is fashioned or what criteria place a story on page 3 rather than page 1. The reader is introduced to dominant practice traditions within the speech community of professional print journalists, including the "news values," "language attitudes," and emphases on "craft" and "community" that guide daily linguistic decision making. In the introduction and chapter 1, Cotter explains her intervention as one of attending to "the process and practice of everyday journalism" (p. 13), "including the norms and routines of the community of news practitioners," rather than exclusively to text (p. 21). Chapter 1 provides a useful overview of existing studies of media discourse, which, as Cotter points out, have tended to focus on its structure, its linguistic function, and/or the ideologies reflected within and spread by it, especially as developed in studies of linguistic variation, framing, and style and within critical discourse analysis (CDA). While sensitive to (and, indeed, drawing on) the insights generated by research within these frameworks, Cotter positions her work more squarely within the ethnography of communication in the Hymesian tradition. By the "news talk" and "language of journalism" referenced in her title, she thus means to include not only the texts of news stories, but also the "talk that occurs in the course of accomplishing communicative and discursive tasks, between and among members of a community," such as conversations between journalists and meta-discourse about newswriting (p. 23). The remainder of Part I details how journalists are socialized into the "primary values" of craft and community (chapter 2), reporting and editing standards, and news culture more broadly (chapter 3). Much of this is learned in university journalism programs, but Cotter also stresses that "[t]he 'apprentice model' is the operative learning format in the journalist's world," such that the newsroom is as much a locus of learning as the classroom (p. 63). These chapters could be read independently as an introduction to journalists' professionalization. bs_bs_banner E106 Journal of Linguistic Anthropology

Detecting black: urban African American noir

Character Actors In Horror and Science Fiction Films, 1930-1960. Laurence Raw. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2012. 232 pp. $45 paper

The Journal of Popular Culture, Dec 1, 2013

Cultural Studies <=> Critical Methodologies, Aug 1, 2015

This discussion among a community at the University of Oklahoma came from work presented at an ev... more This discussion among a community at the University of Oklahoma came from work presented at an event called “After Trayvon.” Several issues about social justice, African-American bodies, the experience of microagressions, the role and responsibility of local police, and the critical roles of history and the media were discussed in a forum with the public.

A Culture of Cultural Studies: an introduction

Journal of Communication Inquiry, Oct 1, 1997

What is the object of cultural studies? If we want to reconsider cultural studies we need an obje... more What is the object of cultural studies? If we want to reconsider cultural studies we need an object for our attention. So what of the subject of cultural studies? Are we explained by Judith Butler&#39;s paradox of subjection: that we are the instrument of agency and at the same time the effect of subordination, or the deprivation of agency? (Butler, 1997, p. 10). Perhaps we are in a discursive formation that one learns (or has learned) to understand, and from that point on the formation partially constitutes its learner—its &quot;taught.&quot; Our investigations then become a kind a literacy, a way of seeing :

The Critical Intersection of Documentary & Journalism:<i>Hell House</i>and Rhetorical Articulation

Atlantic Journal of Communication, Apr 13, 2012

Because of their mutual interest in nonfiction storytelling, documentary and journalism are assum... more Because of their mutual interest in nonfiction storytelling, documentary and journalism are assumed to be quite similar, which results in confusion and misunderstanding. This article addresses this problem by analyzing the differences between these two forms, demonstrating ways in which documentary can help to articulate journalism, enhancing our literacy in both areas. After an analytic discussion of these differences, an

â€œA Shot on the Devilâ€

Palgrave Macmillan eBooks, Oct 10, 2014

Slender Man Is Coming: Creepypasta and Contemporary Legends on the Internet. Trevor J.Blank and LynneMcNeill. Utah State University Press, 2018

The Journal of American Culture, Dec 1, 2019

A Topology of Guillermo del Toro

International Horror Film Directors

Gaylord Professor, Professor of Journalism & Mass Communication Area Head -Media Arts (Creative Media Production and Professional Writing) Affiliate faculty -Film and Media Studies Core Affiliate Faculty -Women's and Gender Studies

Vita, 2023

Interdepartmental certificate program focusing on rhetorical construction of disciplines, and int... more

A Topology of Guillermo del Toro

Intellect Books, Dec 11, 2016

After Trayvon- Voices From the Academy Respond to a Tragedy.pdf

by Maria del Guadalupe Davidson, Ralph Beliveau, Meta G Carstarphen, T. Elon Dancy II, and Michele Eodice

This discussion among a community at the University of Oklahoma came from work presented at an ev... more This discussion among a community at the University of Oklahoma came from work presented at an event called “After Trayvon.” Several issues about social justice, African-American bodies, the experience of microagressions, the role and responsibility of local police, and the critical roles of history and the media were discussed in a forum with the public.

Catholic Horror on Television: Haunting Faith

Catholic Horror on Television: Haunting Faith, 2024

Catholic Horror on Television: Haunting Faith explores the significant intersection of horror med... more Catholic Horror on Television: Haunting Faith explores the significant intersection of horror media and the Catholic Church. Chapters focus on the tv/streaming programs "The Exorcist" television series, Midnight Mass, Evil, and 30 Coins (30 monedas). Religious themes enjoy a long history in film and television, with narratives featuring the supernatural, science fiction, and horror making use of Roman Catholicism in particular. The horror genre frequently tells fantastic stories about the mysteries that we seek to understand, helping to come to terms with the destructive and the monstrous. This book analyzes the genre of Catholic horror in the current television and streaming media environment, exploring its treatment of physical mortality, the metaphysics of meaning, and morality. Catholic Horror on Television: Haunting Faith offers a fresh take on how television and streaming horror series critique, expand, and interrogate Catholicism and its place in the modern world. In doing so, this book contributes to conversations in several disciplines including media, cultural, television, and religious studies.