Essays in academic journals and edited book collections

Jaap Kooijman, "No Place Like New York: Diana Ross's 'Home' (1978) from The Wiz," in Veronika Keller and Sabrina Mittermeier (editors), From Broadway to The Bronx: New York City's History through Song, Bristol: Intellect, 2024, pp. 73-81.

Josette Wolthuis and Jaap Kooijman, "Pause and Rewind: Forgotten Histories of Television," TMG: Journal of Media History 27:1 (2024): 1-6. Open access online. 

Jaap Kooijman, "Donna Summer and the White Male Gaze," ZfM: Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft 29 (2023). Open access online.

Jaap Kooijman, "Dancing at the Empty Discotheque: Two Retro-Disco Music Videos Shot During COVID-19," Collateral 36 (2023). Open access online.

Jaap Kooijman and Patricia Pisters, "Murky Waters: Submerging in an Aesthetics of Non-Transparency," NECSUS: European Journal of Media Studies 10:2 (2021). Open access online.

Jaap Kooijman, "Double Nostalgia in The Queen's Gambit," 16:9 filmtidsskrift (2021). Open access online.

Jaap Kooijman, "What's Whitney Got to Do with It: Black Female Triumph and Tragedy in the 2015 Lifetime Biopic Whitney," European Journal of Life Writing 10 (2021): 190-209. Open access online.

Jaap Kooijman, "At Last a Dream That I Can Call My Own: Beyoncé and the Performance of Stardom," in Martin Iddon and Melanie L. Marschall (editors), Beyoncé: At Work, On Screen, and Online, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2020, pp. 114-135.

Jaap Kooijman, "Talking [Heads] About Whitney," NECSUS: European Journal of Media Studies 9:2 (2020). Open access online.

"Becoming Videographic Critics: A Roundtable Conversation," in Christian Keathley, Jason Mittell, and Catherine Grant, The Videographic Essay: Criticism in Sound & Image (revised and expanded edition), Montreal: caboose, 2019, pp. 31-64. Open access online.

Jaap Kooijman, "Fierce, Fabulous, and In/Famous: Beyoncé as Black Diva," Popular Music and Society 42:1 (2019): 6-21. Open access online.

 

Jaap Kooijman, "After Will & Ellen: Uneventful Queer Television," Critical Studies in Television 14:4 (2019): 451-455. Open access online.

 

Catherine Grant and Jaap Kooijman, "New Ways of Seeing (and Hearing): The Audiovisual Essay and Television," NECSUS: European Journal of Media Studies 8:1 (2019): 293-297. Open access online.

 

Jaap Kooijman, "Why I Too Write About Beyoncé," Celebrity Studies 10:3 (2019): 432-435. Open access online.

 

Jaap Kooijman, "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 & Culture 6:11 (2017): 93-101. Open access online.

 

Jaap Kooijman, "The Boxed Aesthetic and Metanarratives of Stardom: Analyzing Music Videos on DVD Compilations," in Gina Arnold, Daniel Cookney, Kirsty Fairclough, and Michael Goddard (editors), Music/Video: Histories, Aesthetics, Media, London: Bloomsbury, 2017, pp. 231-244. 

Jaap Kooijman, "Whitewashing the Dreamgirls: Beyoncé, Diana Ross, and the Commodification of Blackness," in Sabrina Qiong Yu and Guy Austin (editors), Revisiting Star Studies: Cultures, Themes and Methods, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017, pp. 105-124.

Jaap Kooijman, "To Critique Affect by Means of Affect," Cinema Journal 56:4 (2017): 146-148. Restricted access online.

Joke Hermes, Jaap Kooijman, Jo Littler, and Helen Wood, "On the Move: Twentieth Anniversary Editorial of the European Journal of Cultural Studies," European Journal of Cultural Studies 20:6 (2017): 595-605. Open access online.

Catherine Grant and Jaap Kooijman, "Pleasure | Obvious | Queer: A Conversation with Richard Dyer," NECSUS: European Journal of Media Studies 5:1 (2016): 95-110: Open access online.

Jeroen de Kloet and Jaap Kooijman, "Karaoke Americanism Gangnam Style: K-Pop, Wonder Girls, and the Asian Unpopular," in Martin Lüthe and Sascha Pöhlmann (editors), Unpopular Culture, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2016, pp. 113-128. Open access online.

Joke Hermes and Jaap Kooijman, "The Everyday Use of Celebrities," in P. David Marshall and Sean Redmond (editors), A Companion to Celebrity, Chichester: Wiley Blackwell, 2016, pp. 483-496.

Jaap Kooijman, "Success: Richard Dyer on Diana Ross [and Beyond]," [in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film & Moving Image Studies 2:4, 2016. Open access online.

Jaap Kooijman, "Teaching American Psycho," The Cine-Files 9 (2015). Open access online.

Jaap Kooijman, "The True Voice of Whitney Houston: Commodification, Authenticity, and African American Superstardom," Celebrity Studies 5:3 (2014): 305-320.

Jaap Kooijman, "Globalization and Television Formats," NECSUS: European Journal of Media Studies 3:1 (2014): 319-325. Open access online.

Jaap Kooijman,"The King of Pop and the President of Cool: Michael Jackson, Barack Obama, and Celebrity Culture," in Astrid M. Fellner, Susanne Hamscha, Klaus Heissenberger, and Jennifer J* Moos (editors), Is It 'Cause It's Cool? Affective Encounters with American Culture, Vienna: LIT Verlag, 2013, pp. 141-160.

Jaap Kooijman, "Greening Media Studies: An Interview with Richard Maxwell and Toby Miller," NECSUS: European Journal of Media Studies 2:1 (2013): 77-82. Open access online.

Jaap Kooijman, "Dreaming the American Nightmare: The Cultural Life of 9/11," in Carsten Meiner and Kristin Feel (editors), The Cultural Life of Catastrophes and Crises, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2012,
pp. 177-190.

Jaap Kooijman, "Televisie en Amerikaans universalisme," in Joke Hermes and Maarten Reesink (editors), Televisiestudies, Den Haag: Boom Lemma, 2011, pp. 227-244.

Jaap Kooijman, "Americans We Never Were: Teaching American Popular Culture in the Netherlands," The Journal of American Culture 34:1 (2011): 16-25.

Jaap Kooijman, "Pleasures of the Orient: Cadinot's Maghreb as Gay Male Pornotopia," in Murat Aydemir (editor), Indiscretions: At the Intersection of Queer and Postcolonial Theory (Thamyris No. 22), Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2011, pp. 97-111.

Jaap Kooijman, "The Oprahfication of 9/11: September 11, the War in Iraq, and The Oprah Winfrey Show," in Trystan T. Cotten and Kimberly Springer (editors), Stories of Oprah: The Oprahfication of American Culture, Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 2010, pp. 131-144.

Laura Copier, Jaap Kooijman, and Caroline Vander Stichele, "Close Encounters: The Bible as Pre-Text in Popular Culture," in Philip Culbertson and Elaine M. Wainwright (editors), The Bible in/and Popular Culture: A Creative Encounter, Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2010, pp. 189-195.

Jaap Kooijman, "Are We All Americans? 9/11 and Discourses of Multiculturalism in the Netherlands," in Derek Rubin and Jaap Verheul (editors), American Multiculturalism after 9/11: Transatlantic Perspectives, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2009, pp. 181-190.

Jaap Kooijman, "Cruising the Channels: The Queerness of Zapping," in Glyn Davis and Gary Needham (editors), Queer TV: Theories, Histories, Politics, London and New York: Routledge, 2009, pp. 159-171. Open access download.

Jaap Kooijman, "Contemporary Dutch Cinema and Hollywood," in Hans Krabbendam, Cornelis A. van Minnen, and Giles Scott-Smith (editors), Four Centuries of Dutch-American Relations, 1609-2009, Amsterdam/Albany: Boom/State University of New York Press, 2009, pp. 1060-1070.

Jaap Kooijman, "Amsterdamned Global Village: A Cinematic Site of Karaoke Americanism," in Jaap Kooijman, Patricia Pisters, and Wanda Strauven (editors), Mind the Screen: Media Concepts According to Thomas Elsaesser, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2008, pp. 188-197.

Jaap Kooijman, Patricia Pisters, and Wanda Strauven, "A Looking Glass for Old and New Screens," in Kooijman, Pisters, and Strauven (editors), Mind the Screen: Media Concepts According to Thomas Elsaesser, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2008, pp. 9-15.

Jaap Kooijman, "Fok de macht: Nederlandse popcultuur als karaoke-amerikanisme," in Sociologie 4:2-3 (2008): 195-207. Open access online.

Jaap Kooijman and Giselinde Kuipers, "Amerikaanse toestanden!" (introduction to special issue), in Sociologie 4:2-3 (2008): 109-114. Open access online.

Jaap Kooijman, "Michael Jackson, Motown 25, Pasadena Civic Auditorium, March 25, 1983," in Ian Inglis (editor), Performance and Popular Music: History, Place, and Time, Hampshire and Burlington: Ashgate, 2006, pp. 119-127.

Jaap Kooijman, "Family Portrait: Queering the Nuclear Family in François Ozon's Sitcom," in Patricia Pisters and Wim Staat (editors), Shooting the Family: Transnational Media and Intercultural Values, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2005, pp. 73-87.

Jaap Kooijman, "Turn the Beat Around: Richard Dyer's 'In Defence of Disco" Revisited," European Journal of Cultural Studies 8:2 (2005): 257-266. Open access online.

Jaap Kooijman, "'Ain't No Mountain High Enough': Diana Ross as a Pop-Cultural Icon of the 1960s," in Avital H. Bloch and Lauri Umansky, Impossible to Hold: Women and Culture in the 1960s, New York: New York University Press, 2005, pp. 152-173.

Jaap Kooijman, "They're Here, They're Queer, and Straight America Loves It," GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 11:1 (2005): 106-109.

Jaap Kooijman, "Let's Make Things Better: Hyper-Americaness in Dutch Pop Culture," in Kate Delaney and Ruud Janssens (editors), Over (T)here: Transatlantic Essays in Honor of Rob Kroes, Amsterdam: VU University Press, 2005, pp. 82-95.

Jaap Kooijman, Jude Davies, Linda Berg-Cross, Laura Copier, and Aisha Asby, "International Education, the Internet, and the Three Kings experiment," Journal of Studies in International Education 8:2 (2004): 207-223.

Jaap Kooijman, "Outside in America: George Michael's Music Video, Public Sex, and Global Pop Culture," European Journal of Cultural Studies 7:1 (2004): 27-41.

Jaap Kooijman, "Bombs Bursting in Air: The Gulf War, 9/11, and the Super Bowl Performances of 'The Star-Spangled Banner' by Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey," in Ruud Janssens and Rob Kroes (editors), Post-Cold War Europe, Post-Cold War America, Amsterdam: VU University Press, 2004, pp. 178-193.

Jaap Kooijman, "Triumphant Black Pop Divas on the Wide Screen: Lady Sings the Blues and Tina: What's Love Got To Do With It," in Ian Inglis (editor), Popular Music and Film, London & New York: Wallflower Press, 2003, pp. 178-192.

Jaap Kooijman and Tarja Laine, "American Psycho [Analysis]: A Double Portrait of Serial Yuppie Patrick Bateman," Post Script: Essays in Film and the Humanities 22:3 (2003): 46-56. 

Jaap Kooijman, "Travelling Star Image: The Crossovers of Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, and RuPaul," in Nancy Pedri (editor), Travelling Concepts III: Memory, Narrative, Image, Amsterdam: ASCA, 2003, pp. 329-340.

Jaap Kooijman, "A Juxtaposition of Conflicting Images: Hubert H. Humphrey and the Television Coverage of Chicago, 1968," in Peter C. Rollins and John E. O'Conner (editors), Hollywood's White House: The American Presidency in Film and History, Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2003, pp. 125-140.

Sudeep Dasgupta and Jaap Kooijman, "Kijken 'tussen' twee culturen: Watching Driving Miss Palmen," in Tessa Boerman, Patricia Pisters, and Joes Segal (editors), Beeldritsen: Visuele cultuur en etnische diversiteit in Nederland, Amsterdam: De Balie, 2003, pp. 76-87.

Jaap Kooijman, "From Elegance to Extravaganza: The Supremes on The Ed Sullivan Show as a Presentation of Beauty," The Velvet Light Trap 49 (2002): 4-17.

Jaap Kooijman, "Can't Forget the Motor City: The Move of Motown from Detroit to Los Angeles," in Hans Krabbendam, Marja Roholl, and City de Vries, The American Metropolis: Image and Inspiration, Amsterdam: VU University Press, 2001, pp. 214-224.

Jaap Kooijman, "National Health Insurance," in Maurine H. Beasley, Holly C. Shulman, and Henry R. Beasley (editors), The Eleanor Roosevelt Encyclopedia, Westport and London: Greenwood Press, 2001, pp. 365-366.

Jaap Kooijman, "Soon or Later On: Franklin D. Roosevelt and National Health Insurance, 1933-1945," Presidential Studies Quarterly 29:2 (1999): 336-350.

Jaap Kooijman, "'Just Forget About It': FDR's Ambivalence towards National Health Insurance," in Robert A. Garson and Stuart S. Kidd (editors), The Roosevelt Years: New Perspectives on American History, 1933-1945, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1999, pp. 30-41.

Jaap Kooijman, "Zo dood als Elvis Presley: Het debat over een nationale ziektekostenverzekering in de Verenigde Staten van Amerika," De Nieuwste Tijd 12 (1999): 59-65.

Jaap Kooijman, "'Licked by a Group of Doctors': The Exclusion of a National Health Insurance Program from the Social Security Act of 1935," in Hans Bak, Frits van Holthoon, and Hans Krabbendam (editors), Social and Secure? Politics and Culture of the Welfare State: A Comparative Inquiry, Amsterdam: VU University Press, 1996, pp. 129-145.

Jaap Kooijman, "De noodzaak van aanhalingstekens: Een pleidooi voor Political Correctness binnen de Amerikanistiek," in Frits van Holthoon, Wil Verhoeven, and Tity de Vries (editors), Amerikanisten: Werk in uitvoering, Groningen: Universiteitsdrukkerij, 1995, pp. 144-150.