Welcome to Psychoville: The League of Gentlemen and the Hitchcockian Sickcom
Lisa W. Kelly / University of Glasgow
A look at the dark humor of the British generic hybrid Psychoville.
Read moreYear: 2009
Welcome to Psychoville: The League of Gentlemen and the Hitchcockian Sickcom
Sex and the Postsocialist City
Anikó Imre / University of Southern California
A thinkpiece on the reception of postfeminist television shows in Hungary.
Read moreDemocracy without Dissent: Satirical News in Italy
Michela Ardizzoni / University of Colorado – Boulder
A consideration of the Italian, satirical news program “Striscia la Notizia” and how it reflects the political corruption of the prime minister Silvio Berlsconi.
Read moreDoes ‘Heroes 360’ Represent NBC’s Blistering Vision of the Future?
Denise Mann / University of California – Los Angeles
An exploration of the ongoing tension between user-generated and official, network generated content in the Heroes websites.
Read moreHanging by a Thread
Peter Lehman/Arizona State University & Susan Hunt/Santa Monica College
For better and worse, the body guy’s big penis is all he has left on the new HBO series Hung.
Read morePerforming Live: Acting, Authenticity, and Reality Television
Adrienne McLean / University of Texas – Dallas
An examination of the relationship between the ‘ontology of liveness’ and ‘reality’ in television today.
Read moreMixed Martial Arts’ Burgeoning Wild Kingdom
Matthew Ferrari / University of Massachusetts-Amherst
A look at masculinity and the primal in the Ultimate Fighting Championship and mixed martial arts.
Read moreTweeting the Dialectic of Technological Determinism
Ted Friedman / Georgia State University – Atlanta
A skeptical look at the technological determinism at work in American perceptions of the effects of Twitter on the recent Iranian conflict.
Read moreA Look Back at the Campaign: Asian American Political and Cultural Representation
Konrad Ng / University of Hawai’i at Mānoa
An examination of Asian American political participation and cultural expression within Barack Obama’s grassroots campaign.
Read moreWhat Brown Cannot Do For You: MTV-Desi, Diasporic Youth Culture, and the Limits of Television
Aswin Punathambekar/The University of Michigan
A look at disaporic media cultures and MTV’s efforts to target Asian-American youth.
Just Add Performance
Kiri Miller / Brown University
Exploring the industry effects and phenomena of “musicking” of the video games Rock Band and Guitar Hero.
Read moreGertrude Berg, “Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg,” and the Re-Discovery of a Television Auteur
Bernard M. Timberg / University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
A revisitation of the iconic early television series The Goldbergs.
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