Sarah Palin: Castration as Plenitude
A Politically Unbiased Report on the Satirization of “Jesus Freak” Sarah Palin and Her Hillbilly Family
Eric Shouse/East Carolina University
Even Mud Has The Illusion of Depth: A McLuhanesque Reading of Sarah Palin
Ann McKinnon / Okanagen College
Europe Signals its Concerns with Sarah: Experience, Education, and Etiquette
M.Patrick Cullinane / University College Cork
The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, and the Meta-Silly Season in Politics: Agenda Setting in the Contemporary Media Environment
Jennifer Brundidge / University of Texas – Austin
Requiem for a “King”: Something about Bernie
Bambi Haggins / University of Michigan
An analysis and tribute to the late great Bernie Mac.
Read moreDreadful Locks: Shear Genius and the Limits of Multiculturalism
Jennifer Fuller / University of Texas – Austin
Critically examining multiculturalism on Bravo’s reality television program Shear Genius
Read moreFraming the First Daughters…
Shayla Thiel-Stern / University of Minnesota
An analysis of gendered narratives circulating within media representations of (Vice)Presidential daughters.
Read moreSex and ABC Family. Huh?
Tiffany Henning / FLOW Staff
A look into the portrayal of sex on the ABC Family Channel.
Read moreBack to the Future?: Television in the 1980s
Karen Lury / University of Glasgow
A consideration of the ways in which television’s evolving history is changing approaches to introductory television courses.
Read moreTelevision. Archive.
Joshua Green / MIT
A look at the issues surrounding archiving television’s history.
Read moreBlogger News Network? TPMtv and Online Video Aesthetics
Ethan Thompson / Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi
An examination of the lo-fi, satirical, and guerilla-inspired aesthetics of Talking Points Memo TV.
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