Teen Choice Awards: Better Than The Emmys?
by: Sharon Ross / Columbia College Chicago
Hidden behind the surfboards is an awards show that celebrates much of what the Emmys have overlooked.
Category: Featured Articles
The Commitments
by: Daniel Marcus / Goucher College
For better or worse, contemporary TV dramas ask a lot of their audiences.
Separated at Birth?
by: Justin Wyatt / ABC Television Network
The charms of The Andy Milonakis Show.
Race Fictions: Crash, Do the Right Thing and La Haine
by: John Downing / Southern Illinios University
The portrayal of modern race relations in Paul Haggis’ Crash is compared to Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing and Matthieu Kassovitz’s La Haine.
Discovering the Art of Television’s Endings
by: Jane Feuer / University of Pittsburgh
A consideration of the aesthetics of the television season finale.
Evaluation, Analysis, Reform, and the Peabody Awards
by: Horace Newcomb / University of Georgia
On the purpose of media studies and the many guises of reform.
Media Studies for the Hell of It?: Second Thoughts on McChesney and Fiske
by: Aniko Bodroghkozy / University of Virginia
Why and how do you study media?
Global Television and Multiple Layers of Identity
by: Joseph D. Straubhaar / University of Texas-Austin
How do we relate to increased local, regional, national, and global television flows?
Fans of Lesbians on TV: The L Word’s Generations
by: Jill Dolan / University of Texas at Austin
What The L Word gets “right” about lesbian relationships.
The Copyright Creative Stranglehold
by: Patricia Aufderheide / American University
A discussion of the negative effects of copyright law on documentary production.
This Week on Flow
by: Chris Lucas and Avi Santo / Coordinating Editors
Welcome to the first issue of Flow Volume 2.
Everything Will Flow
by: Will Brooker / Richmond University
In an article from 2000, seeking a word to describe the cross-platform convergence of early 21st century popular culture…I fixed on “overflow” as an update of Raymond Williams’ 1974 coinage, “flow.”