Category: Volume 12

An exploration of the historical and current institutional archival issues for Philippine cinema alongside a native filmmaker’s alternative, artistic preservation of the nation’s cinematic history

A discussion of the recent growth in simulcasting anime content and television distribution across national borders.

Suzanne Leonard deconstructs the notion of the martyred wife in The Good Wife.

Iggy Pop, Dinah Shore, and the “rituals of hospitalities” on daytime talk shows.

Do male protagonists in household cleaner TV commercials reinforce or challenge the dominant ideology of the female as the traditional homemaker?

FlashForward breaks with the linearity of straight time to offer moments of unknowability that challenge the script of life, presenting an opportunity to think about multiple ways of interpreting the place of non-straight representations in ideas of the future.

Daren Brabham investigates the strange appeal of curling to American spectators.

An exploration of the intertextual references underscoring the narrative of ABC’s Lost.

Analysis of the rise and fall of the border-patrolling Minutemen volunteers.

A consideration of how ABC’s The Middle transgresses its working-class sitcom roots by re-positioning the blue-collar male.