The Minutemen in the Media: The Rise and Fall of the Populist Movement
Carolyn Brown / American University
Analysis of the rise and fall of the border-patrolling Minutemen volunteers.
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The Minutemen in the Media: The Rise and Fall of the Populist Movement
ABC’s The Middle: Redefining the Working-Class Male
Kelli Marshall / University of Toledo
A consideration of how ABC’s The Middle transgresses its working-class sitcom roots by re-positioning the blue-collar male.
Read moreA Bitter Pill: Nurse Jackie and a Discourse of Discontent
Janani Subramanian / University of Southern California
An exploration of Showtime’s Nurse Jackie as another entrant into the growing group of older female protagonists across both network and cable programming.
Read moreThe Revolution is Televised
Julia Lesage / University of Oregon
Recent Burmese video footage prompts the question: How do we preserve and document revolution?
Read moreCan Rational Thought Be Entertaining?
Ann Johnson / Cal State University, Long Beach
A look at reason-based entertainment in television shows Mythbusters and Bullshit.
Read moreThe Fantastic, Feminist Religion of Wonderfalls
Charlotte Howell / FLOW Staff
What’s at stake in claims of “post-racial” media?
Mary Beltran / University of Wisconsin – Madison
Mary Beltran examines the implications of a “post-race” media climate.
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