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Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis ASCA

Dr. J.W. (Jaap) Kooijman

Faculty of Humanities
Departement Mediastudies
Photographer: Jelle Rietveld
Visiting address
  • Turfdraagsterpad 9
  • Room number: 2.12
Postal address
  • Postbus 94550
    1090 GN Amsterdam
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  • Profiel

    Bio

    Jaap Kooijman (Amsterdam, 1967) is universitair hoofddocent Mediastudies en onderzoeksdirecteur van de Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA) aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam. Hij is auteur van Fabricating the Absolute Fake (AUP 2013) en De muziekfabriek (Mazirel 2024), en co-editor, met Glyn Davis, van The Richard Dyer Reader (BFI 2023). Zijn artikelen over Amerikaanse popcultuur en politiek zijn gepubliceerd in tijdschriften als The Velvet Light Trap, European Journal of Cultural Studies, The Journal of American Culture, Post Script, Celebrity Studies, Popular Music and Society, Cinema Journal, Critical Studies in Television, en VIEW Journal of European Television History and Culture, en ook in geredigeerde collecties als Unpopular Culture (AUP 2016), A Companion to Celebrity (Wiley 2016), Revisiting Star Studies (Edinburgh UP 2017), Music/Video: Histories, Aesthetics, Media (Bloomsbury 2017), en Beyoncé: At Work, On Screen, and Online (Indiana UP 2020). Zijn audiovisuele essays zijn gepubliceerd in [in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film & Moving Image Studies, NECSUS: European Journal of Media Studies, 16:9, Collateral, tecmerin: Journal of Audiovisual Essays, en zfm: Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft. 

  • English

    Bio

    Jaap Kooijman (Amsterdam, 1967) is an associate professor in Media Studies and American Studies and academic director of the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA) at the University of Amsterdam. He is the author of Fabricating the Absolute Fake (AUP 2013) and De muziekfabriek (Mazirel 2024), and co-editor, with Glyn Davis, of The Richard Dyer Reader (BFI 2023). His articles on American pop culture and politics have been published in journals such as The Velvet Light Trap, European Journal of Cultural Studies, The Journal of American Culture, Post Script, Celebrity Studies, Popular Music and Society, Cinema Journal, Critical Studies in Television, and VIEW Journal of European Television History and Culture, as well as in edited collections such as Unpopular Culture (AUP 2016), A Companion to Celebrity (Wiley 2016), Revisiting Star Studies (Edinburgh UP 2017), Music/Video: Histories, Aesthetics, Media (Bloomsbury 2017), and Beyoncé: At Work, On Screen, and Online(Indiana UP 2020). His audiovisual essays have been published in [in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film & Moving Image Studies, NECSUS: European Journal of Media Studies, 16:9, Collateral, tecmerin: Journal of Audiovisual Essays, and zfm: Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft. 

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  • Publications

    2023

    • Davis, G., & Kooijman, J. (2023). The Richard Dyer Reader: edited. BFI. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781839023200 [details]
    • Kooijman, J. (2023). Coming to Terms and Other Essays on Bodies and Affect. In G. Davis, & J. Kooijman (Eds.), The Richard Dyer Reader (pp. 297-303). Bloomsbury.
    • Kooijman, J. (2023). Dancing at the Empty Discotheque: Two retro disco music videos shot during COVID-19. Collateral , (36), Article c. https://www.collateral-journal.com/index.php?cluster=36 [details]
    • Kooijman, J. (2023). Donna Summer and the White European Male Gaze. Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft, 2023(2 (29)). https://zfmedienwissenschaft.de/online/videography-blog/donna-summer-and-white-european-male-gaze [details]
    • Kooijman, J. (2023). The Streisand Effect. Tecmerin: Journal of Audiovisual Essays, 11. https://vimeo.com/828949555 [details]
    • Kooijman, J., & Davis, G. (2023). A Star Is Born and Other Essays on Stardom and Image. In J. Kooijman, & G. Davis (Eds.), The Richard Dyer Reader (pp. 18-24). BFI.
    • Kooijman, J., & Davis, G. (2023). Getting over the Rainbow and Other Essays on Gay Liberation. In J. Kooijman, & G. Davis (Eds.), The Richard Dyer Reader (pp. 134-140). BFI.
    • Kooijman, J., & Davis, G. (2023). In Defence of Disco and Other Essays on Entertainment and Ideology. In The Richard Dyer Reader (pp. 80-86). BFI.
    • Kooijman, J., & Davis, G. (2023). Masculinity is So Boring and Other Conversations with Richard Dyer. In J. Kooijman, & G. Davis (Eds.), The Richard Dyer Reader (pp. 484-489). BFI.
    • Kooijman, J., & Davis, G. (2023). The Persistence of Textual Analysis and Other Essays on Form and Meaning. In J. Kooijman, & G. Davis (Eds.), The Richard Dyer Reader (pp. 394-399). BFI.
    • Kooijman, J., & Davis, G. (2023). White and Other Essays on Representation and Visibility. In J. Kooijman, & G. Davis (Eds.), The Richard Dyer Reader (pp. 210-215). BFI.
    • Kooijman, J., & Davis, G. (2023). Writing Out of Love or Politics. In J. Kooijman, & G. Davis (Eds.), The Richard Dyer Reader (pp. 527-539). BFI.

    2021

    2020

    • Kooijman, J. (2020). "At Last a Dream That I Can Call My Own": Beyoncé and the Performance of Stardom in Dreamgirls and Cadillac Records. In M. Iddon, & M. L. Marshall (Eds.), Beyoncé: At Work, On Screen, and Online (pp. 114-135). Indiana University Press. [details]
    • Kooijman, J. (2020). Talking [Heads] About Whitney. NECSUS, 9(2), 445-448. https://doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/15339 [details]

    2019

    2017

    • Hermes, J., Kooijman, J., Littler, J., & Wood, H. (2017). On the move: Twentieth anniversary editorial of the European Journal of Cultural Studies. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 20(6), 595-605. https://doi.org/10.1177/1367549417733006 [details]
    • Kooijman, J. (2017). I Want My MTV, We Want Our TMF: The Music Factory, MTV Europe, and Music Television in the Netherlands, 1995-2011. VIEW Journal of European Television History and Culture, 6(11), 93-101. https://doi.org/10.18146/2213-0969.2017.JETHC126 [details]
    • Kooijman, J. (2017). The Boxed Aesthetic and Metanarratives of Stardom: Analyzing Music Videos on DVD Compilations. In G. Arnold, D. Cookney, K. Fairclough, & M. Goddard (Eds.), Music/Video: Histories, Aesthetics, Media (pp. 231-244). Bloomsbury Academic. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781501313943.ch-020 [details]
    • Kooijman, J. (2017). To Critique Affect by Means of Affect. Cinema Journal, 56(4), 146-148. https://doi.org/10.1353/cj.2017.0048 [details]
    • Kooijman, J. (2017). Whitewashing the Dreamgirls: Beyoncé, Diana Ross, and the Commodification of Blackness. In S. Q. Yu, & G. Austin (Eds.), Revisiting Star Studies: Cultures, Themes and Methods (pp. 105-124). Edinburgh University Press. [details]

    2016

    2015

    2014

    • Kooijman, J. (2014). Globalisation and television formats [Review of: T. Oren, S. Shahaf (2012) Global television formats: understanding television across borders; K. Meizel (2011) Idolized: music, media, and identity in American Idol]. NECSUS, 3(1), 319-325. https://doi.org/10.5117/NECSUS2014.1.KOOI [details]
    • Kooijman, J. (2014). The True Voice of Whitney Houston: Commodification, Authenticity, and African American Superstardom. Celebrity Studies, 5(3), 305-320. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/19392397.2014.911110 [details]

    2013

    • Kooijman, J. (2013). Fabricating the absolute fake: America in contemporary pop culture. - Revised and extended edition. Amsterdam University Press. [details]
    • Kooijman, J. (2013). The King of Pop and the President of Cool: Michael Jackson, Barack Obama, and Celebrity Culture. In A. M. Fellner, S. Hamscha, K. Heissenberger, & J. J. Moos (Eds.), Is It 'Cause It's Cool?: Affective Encounters with American Culture (pp. 141-160). (American Studies in Austria; No. 13). LIT Verlag. [details]

    2012

    • Kooijman, J. (2012). Dreaming the American Nightmare: The Cultural Life of 9/11. In C. Meiner, & K. Veel (Eds.), The Cultural Life of Catastrophes and Crises (pp. 177-190). (Concepts for the study of culture; No. 3). De Gruyter. [details]

    2011

    2010

    • Copier, L., Kooijman, J., & Vander Stichele, C. (2010). Close encounters: the Bible as pre-text in popular culture. In P. Culbertson, & E. M. Wainwright (Eds.), The Bible in/and popular culture: a creative encounter (pp. 189-195). (Semeia studies; No. 65). Society of Biblical Literature. [details]
    • Kooijman, J. (2010). The Oprahfication of 9/11: September 11, the war in Iraq, and The Oprah Winfrey show. In T. T. Cotten, & K. Springer (Eds.), Stories of Oprah: the Oprahfication of American culture (pp. 131-144). University Press of Mississippi. https://doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781604734072.003.0010 [details]

    2009

    • Kooijman, J. (2009). Are we all Americans? 9/11 and discourses of multiculturalism in the Netherlands. In D. Rubin, & J. Verheul (Eds.), American multiculturalism after 9/11: transatlantic perspectives (pp. 181-190). (New debates in American studies). Amsterdam University Press. [details]
    • Kooijman, J. (2009). Contemporary Dutch cinema and Hollywood. In H. Krabbendam, C. A. van Minnen, & G. Scott-Smith (Eds.), Four centuries of Dutch-American relations 1609-2009 (pp. 1060-1070). Boom. [details]
    • Kooijman, J. (2009). Cruising the channels: the queerness of zapping. In G. Davis, & G. Needham (Eds.), Queer TV: theories, histories, politics (pp. 159-171). Routledge. [details]

    2008

    2016

    2010

    2008

    • Kooijman, J. (2008). Fabricating the absolute fake: America in contemporary pop culture. Amsterdam University Press. http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN9789053564929 [details]
    • Kooijman, J. (2008). Amsterdamned global village: a cinematic site of karaoke Americanism. In J. Kooijman, P. Pisters, & W. Strauven (Eds.), Mind the screen: media concepts according to Thomas Elsaesser (pp. 188-197). Amsterdam University Press. [details]
    • Kooijman, J. (2008). Fok de macht: Nederlandse popcultuur als karaoke-amerikanisme. Sociologie, 4(2-3), 195-207. http://www.atypon-link.com/UBO/doi/abs/10.1347/sogi.4.2-3.195 [details]
    • Kooijman, J., Pisters, P., & Strauven, W. (2008). Mind the screen: media concepts according to Thomas Elsaesser. Amsterdam University Press. [details]
    • Kooijman, J., Pisters, P., & Strauven, W. (2008). A looking glass for old and new screens. In J. Kooijman, P. Pisters, & W. Strauven (Eds.), Mind the screen: media concepts according to Thomas Elsaesser (pp. 9-15). Amsterdam University Press. [details]

    2014

    • Kooijman, J. (2014). De politiek van de zichtbaarheid. In A. van Dam (Ed.), Roze in beeld (pp. 18-23). Xanten. [details]

    2014

    • Kooijman, J. (2014). Even Gordon bellen: Het belang van celebrity in de hedendaagse mediacultuur. Sociologie Magazine, 22(2), 6-8.

    2010

    • Kooijman, J. W. (2010). Infotainment hoeft niet op z'n Amerikaans. Trouw.

    Journal editor

    • Kuipers, G. M. M. (editor) & Kooijman, J. W. (editor) (2008). Sociologie (Journal).
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