Category: Volume 11
True Love Will Find Daniel Johnston in the End (on Your iPhone)
Stage Left: Glee and the Textual Politics of Difference
Lucas Hilderbrand / University of California, Irvine
A look at difference, marginalization, and minority politics in the new show Glee.
Read moreBeing on Television
Meghan Sutherland / Oklahoma State University
An examination of the holiday broadcast considering “liveness” and ontological themes revolving within television studies
Read moreNetworking Families: Battlestar Galactica and the Values of Quality
Jordan Lavender-Smith / City University of New York
A consideration of the tropes of ‘quality’ in Battlestar Galactica.
Read moreNew Media is Neither New nor Media. Discuss.
David Parry / University of Texas at Dallas
An exploration of the the continued use of the terms “media” and “new,” prevents us from focusing on how this change from analog to digital is more than just a media shift.
Read moreReading Narrative Excess in MMA
Matthew Ferrari / University of Massachusetts-Amherst
An analysis of the psychodynamics of televised mixed martial arts and “pauses” as narrative excess
Read moreVampire Politics
Reading the Southern politics of the opening credits for HBO’s True Blood.
Michael Peterson / University of Wisconsin, Laurie Beth Clark / University of Wisconsin and Lisa Nakamura / University of Illinois
Read moreTelevision Celebrity: Extras and the Cultural Value of TV Fame
James Bennett / London Metropolitan University
James Bennett examines Ricky Gervais, Extras, and the show’s meta-textual mediation on television celebrity.
Read moreDAD TV – Postfeminism and the Paternalization of US Television Drama
Hannah Hamad / Massey University
A look at the rise in father figures and the importance of paternity in TV drama series.
Read moreThe Last Days of Videotape
Charles R. Acland / Concordia University
An argument for the significance of the videotape as a lively and important object of academic research.
Read moreMedia Event 2.0: Guy Laliberté’s Final Frontier
Zoë Druick / Simon Fraser University
The confluence of edutainment, celebrity philanthropy, popular environmentalism, post-cold war neo-liberal politics, and the media event in Guy Laliberte’s space tourism.
Read moreFlashForward: Pacing and Script
Julia Lesage/ University of Oregon
An analysis of FlashForward‘s techniques to keep the viewer engaged and even to inspire fan behavior in its audience.
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