A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
Convergence as Conflict: the Tasing of Andrew Meyer
by: Ted Gournelos / University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
The recent events at the University of Florida cause us to consider how protest functions within the campus environment.
Read moreTelevision’s Docile Subservience to the Law
by: Hector Amaya / Southwestern University
The abundance of legal and law enforcement programming begs some exploration.
Read moreSmart Living in the Wired Home
by: Daniel Chamberlain / USC
The Wired Home is an exclusive demonstration of principles that will at best trickle down into high-end home building.
Flow Poll #5:
New Prime Time Shows
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Read moreDurham County: “HBO can eat its heart out”
by: Michele Byers / Saint Mary’s University
Durham County (2007) is a hybrid creature–exportable Canadian drama stripped of all national and cultural
markers and defying generic conventions. The six-episode series about a cop and a serial killer competes with the US specialty cable market and is grabbing both audience approval and critical acclaim.
The Seven Steps to Getting a Job in Television
by: Alan McKee / Queensland University of Technology
You want to work in television, do you? These seven steps might prove useful.
Punk-Rock Presidency: The State of Presidential Satire on Television
by: Jeffrey P. Jones / Old Dominion University
Presidential caricature on television has come a long way from the days of presidential impersonators on late-night talk shows or sketch comedy send-ups on Saturday Night Live. The bookending of the Bush presidency by Comedy Central’s That’s My Bush! and
Lil’ Bush announces a bold new era in the satirization
of a sitting president.
Flow Poll #4: Emmy Nominations — Part II
by: Flow Staff
Vote for your favorite comedic and dramatic actors and actresses in Part Two of our Emmy Nominations Poll.
Read morePixarvolt – Animation and Revolt
by: Judith Halberstam / University of Southern California
In contemporary animated feature films for kids, a genre I call “pixarvolt,” certain topics which would never ever appear in adult films are central to the success and emotional impact of the narrative.
Talent: No Alarms and No Surprises, Please.
by: Gareth Palmer / University of Salford
What is talent now? A starry rope-ladder to the celebrity scaffold? Or a gift? You decide…
Dish Towns USA (or Rural Screens)–Part 2
by: Joan Hawkins / Indiana University, Bloomington
People work long hard hours in multiple jobs to make ends meet, and they frequently have little money left over for the kinds of services that many of us consider essential—services like communication.