A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
Silencing the Buzz: Reconciling Individual and Collective Tastes in Awards Season
by: Bo Baker / FLOW Staff
How do awards affect collective and personal taste?
Angelina Jolie, Madonna, Oprah and African children: On Media Fairy Tales, Personal Blessings and the Ongoing Curses of Africa
by: Olivier Tchouaffe / FLOW Staff
The Western pop-cultural obsession with celebrity adoptions from the African continent begs the question: what do these high-power celebrity adoptions really do for African children?
The Best 10 Minutes of Television?… Ever?
by: Stephen Harrington / Queensland University of Technology
The Office – What is all the fuss about? What is it that made the show so good in the first place?
Strictly Dancing Newsreaders
by: Nichola Dobson / Independent Scholar
What are the implications for British broadcasting when news anchors become celebrities?
Democracy in Fifteen Seconds
by: Chuck Tryon / Fayetteville State University
YouTube meets the Super Bowl as network television tries to negotiate “digital democracy.”
Film is the New Low, Television the New High: Some Ideas About Time and Narrative Conservatisms
by: Hector Amaya / Southwestern University
Are television viewers more receptive to aesthetic and narrative sophistication than film viewers?
The Final Frontier: Myth and Meaning in Science Fiction Television
by: Jennifer Warren / Independent Scholar, San Francisco Bay Area
What are we trying to tell ourselves about ourselves through the lens of science fiction narrative?
Editorial: “They finally killed off Kat”: Battlestar Galactica and the Limits of its Politics
by: Jean Anne Lauer / FLOW Staff
Battlestar Galactica takes on some tough issues, but the death of Kat closes off a potentially rich area for further social critique.
Television, Ecotourism, and the Videocamera: Performative Non-Fiction and Auto-Cinematography
by: Adam Fish / UCLA
In two first-person cinematographer ecotourist programs, the difficulties and joys of being a small camera crew are as important as what the cameras record.
Borat In (Next To!) The Balkans
by: Daniel Marcus / Goucher College
For those in the former Yugoslavia, Borat offers a rich field of representations to express and explore their self-definitions as emerging participants in Western culture and social practices.
Read moreThe Simultaneous Dawning and Twilight of Broadcast Network Narrative
by: Craig Jacobsen / Mesa Community College
It isn’t hard to imagine a future in which broadcasting serves the role of advertising and secondary revenue stream for the primary medium: complete seasons of episodes packed for sale on DVD or for download.
Below Average
by: Alan McKee / Queensland University of Technology
Why it’s best to stick to shows with singing, dancing, or, preferably, both.