A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
Where the Boys Are: Postfeminism and the New Single Man
By: Diane Negra / Brown University
In films such as Wedding Crashers and Failure to Launch, the emergent “problem” single man offers an opportunity to think about the nature and function of postfeminist masculinities in current popular culture.
By: Thomas Aiello / University of Arkansas
What’s in a “colder tasting” or “better tasting” beer? In this article, Aiello takes on advertising at its “best.”
by: Brian L. Ott / Colorado State University
How might academics use David Horowitz’s new book The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America in classrooms?
About Flow’s Special Features
by: Special Feature Editors
Are you interested in contributing to Flow, beyond posting comments? Good news, everyone, we’re always looking for Special Features.
Religious Tolerance versus Tolerance of Religion: A Critique of the Cartoon Controversy in Jyllands-Posten
by: Shanti Kumar / University of Texas at Austin
Given this diversity of viewpoints in Islam, what prompted the cultural editor of Jyllands-Posten to marginalize the tolerant views of a majority of religious believers in the editorial commentary that, ironically enough, claims to rescue traditions of tolerance from the clutches of “some Muslims” who are intolerant extremists?
“Ad”ing by Subtraction
by: Chandler Harriss / Alfred University
How do you know you’re “too old” for advertisers (and therefore networks) to cater to you? Perhaps when you’re at home on Saturday night….
The Open University, Media Studies and New Times
Insight into how The Open University has changed Media Studies Pedagogy.
Devils in the Details
by: Christine Becker / University of Notre Dame
HDTV and the future of television — what are the possibilities?
When I Grow Up I Want to Be a Boy: Transgeneration‘s Meditation on the “Real”
by: Shana Agid / Sarah Lawrence College
Thoughts on Transgeneration and TV’s quest to create a viable “normal” transgender person.
When Mullahs Ride the Airwaves: Muslim Televangelists and the Saudi Connection
by: Nabil Echchaibi / Indiana University-Bloomington
An examination of Irqa’ TV’s role in the promotion of Islam in a post-9/11 media landscape.
Reconsidering the Technological Limitations and Potential of Large Format
by: Mary L. Nucci / Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
An examination of the state of IMAX film and how digital remastering of Hollywood films may affect the format.
Hurricane Spectacles and the Crisis of the Bush Presidency
by: Douglas Kellner / UCLA
(How) will the Bush image weather criticism leveled at his administration in the wake of Hurricane Katrina?