Three Evasions of the Future of Television
Jason Mittell / Middlebury College
Mittell thinks through the multiple pasts and futures of television.
Read moreA Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
Mittell thinks through the multiple pasts and futures of television.
Read moreThe Best of Television: The Inaugural Flow Critics’ Poll
by: Jason Mittell / Middlebury College
And the winner is…
Lost in an Alternate Reality
by: Jason Mittell / Middlebury College
What can the online game “The Lost Experience” teach us about cross-media storytelling and expectations? Is this the future of television?
TiVoing Childhood
by: Jason Mittell / Middlebury College
What is television to a child who only knows TiVo?
An Arresting Development
by: Jason Mittell / Middlebury College
What can the cancellation of Arrested Development tell us about the present and future state of the television industry?
Exchanges of Value
by: Jason Mittell / Middlebury College
In today’s digital media environment, what’s an episode of Veronica Mars really worth?
The Value of Lost, Part Two
by: Jason Mittell / Middlebury College
Building on his last column, Jason Mittell offers up a gripping example of evaluative criticism to support his claim that “Lost is the best show on American broadcast TV.
The Loss of Value (or the Value of Lost)
by: Jason Mittell / Middlebury College
I wish to make a claim that may be the most controversial position as yet argued in Flow‘s brief but vibrant first year: Lost is the best show on American broadcast television.