Remembering Alexander Doty
Corey Creekmur/University of Iowa
Corey Creekmur remembers his friend, Alexander Doty.
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Remembering Alexander Doty
Flow Remembers the Work of Alexander Doty:
I Love Shari: My Queerly Feminist Life with TV
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Modern Family, Glee, and the Limits of Television Liberalism
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Hot in Cleveland: Everything Old is New Again?
The Imaginary SXSWi: If SXSWi is a Dream, Then How Do We Wake Up From It?
Jonathan Hickman / Birmingham City University and Jennifer Jones / University of the West of Scotland
Is SXSWi a Dream World? South by Southwest Interactive (SxSWi) is a dream. A trade fair in a desert, a pilgrimage, a Mecca, where stories are created and products are launched. It is a sign, a referent, a display. For those who attend, it is cultural capital, it is membership of a club – the ‘have-beens’ and the ‘have-nots’; for […]
Read moreSXSW Memes & Themes: What Journalists See Up & Down Dirty Sixth
Todd Schack / Ithaca College
On the narrowness of journalistic coverage of SXSW.
Read moreThe Future of Television?
Sharon Strover / The University of Texas at Austin
The Future of Television Amid all the doom and gloom coming from incumbent broadcasters as they face the fact that some of their spectrum may go away and that people are finding a lot of things to watch besides their channels, a perennial bright spot for most media industries is South by Southwest (SXSW). The Interactive Festival in particular has […]
Read moreProblems in “Wellywood”: Rethinking the politics of transnational cultural labor
Bridget Conor / Goldsmiths College, University of London
Bridget Conor examines the politics of transnational cultural labor in last fall’s Hobbit dispute.
Read moreFractured Soul: Heroes’ Supermom and the Crisis of Post-Feminist Motherhood
Laura Mattoon D’Amore / Boston University
Queuing at Lloyds Bank
Diane Negra / University College Dublin
The Weigh-in as National Money Shot
Jennifer Fremlin / Huntingdon College
How weight-loss shows function in a manner similar to pornography, though with an added spectacle of shame.
Read moreTV Cooking Shows: The Evolution of a GenreKathleen Collins / John Jay College, CUNY
An examination of how the host of the televised cooking show has evolved over the history of the medium.
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