The Commitments
by: Daniel Marcus / Goucher College
For better or worse, contemporary TV dramas ask a lot of their audiences.
Category: Volume 02
The Value of Lost, Part Two
by: Jason Mittell / Middlebury College
Building on his last column, Jason Mittell offers up a gripping example of evaluative criticism to support his claim that “Lost is the best show on American broadcast TV.
Television’s Aesthetic of Dead-Ness
by: Dana Polan / New York University
On “Jumping the Shark” and other ways popular culture frustrates and reneges on its promises.
The Televisual Tour de France on OLN: Confessions of a “Cynic”
by: Walter Metz / Montana State University-Bozeman
For Metz, Lance Armstrong winning an unprecedented seven Tours de France is not a matter of national pride.
Separated at Birth?
by: Justin Wyatt / ABC Television Network
The charms of The Andy Milonakis Show.
Teaching Television, or What I’ve Learned From Flow
by: Derek Kompare / Southern Methodist University
Rediscovering the excitement of teaching television studies.
Bussing the News
by: Vicki Mayer / Tulane University
A snapshot of how real people discuss the news in an unexpected public forum.
The latest in reality TV? Māori Television stakes a claim on the world stage
by: Faye Ginsburg and April Strickland / NYU
A closer look at Maori Television.
“C’mon Get Happy!” Partridge Family Values
by: Allison McCracken / DePaul University
Why the Partridges are better than the Bradys.
Colostomy Bags, Masturbation and Naked Chicken Dancing: The Information World According to Avid Merrion
by: James Walker / Nottingham Trent University
Examining “celebrity culture” through Bo’ Selecta.
Fluff: “The Final Frontier”
by: Eileen Meehan / Louisiana State University
Part three of Meehan’s series on the state of fluff television: more on Peter Jennings’ report on UFOs and how it fails to satisfy as either news or fluff.
This Issue on Flow (08 July 2005)
by: Matthew Payne / FLOW Staff
Welcome to Issue 8.