A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
Stripping (Part 1)
by: Daniel Marcus / Goucher College
Several dramatic series have gained popularity and success through the process of being stripped for syndication. Stripping what was originally a weekly show offers viewers a different experience, allowing them to watch a new episode every day.
Intellectuals
by: Toby Miller / University of California, Riverside
Why intellectuals don’t appear very often on U.S. news.
An Arresting Development
by: Jason Mittell / Middlebury College
What can the cancellation of Arrested Development tell us about the present and future state of the television industry?
What Color Is Your Scholarship?
by: Tara McPherson / University of Southern California
A look at academia’s slow adoption of new technologies for its own work.
Playboy Feminism? Hugh Hefner and The Girls Next Door
by: Moya Luckett / New York University
The Girls Next Door plays with significant ideological contradictions as it tries to address the prevailing popularity of the Playboy bunny image with a new generation of women while trying to remove any taint of sexual exploitation from its girls.
Devils in the Details
by: Christine Becker / University of Notre Dame
HDTV and the future of television — what are the possibilities?
What a Long, Bad Trip It’s Been
by: Mark Andrejevic / University of Iowa
The voyeurism and surveillance of MTV’s One Bad Trip become inverted after the first season, leaving audiences to wonder; who’s watching, and who’s performing?