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A&E’s reality series Dog: The Bounty Hunter presents intersections of crime, religious faith, and branding.
Read moreA Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A&E’s reality series Dog: The Bounty Hunter presents intersections of crime, religious faith, and branding.
Read moreThe slacker heroes of Chuck and Psych may have more in common than would first appear.
Read moreThe screen’s ubiquitous presence in the modern world has transformed our lives from how we interact to the way we move. In this transformation have we all become sitting ducks?
Read moreGiven the ubiquity of sports commentary on television, there must be some perceived purpose behind it. But what might that purpose be?
“Guy-Coms” are making juvenile mascuinity hegemonic in U.S. culture.
Read moreCanadian (over)production of teen TV says something about the role Canada plays in the global TV market, teaching us about the space where technological innovation and the production of national cultures and voices intersect.
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Why The Wire and Friday Night Lights are so fundamentally different from Freedom Writers and We Are Marshall–and why that matters.
An look at daytime loan commercials reveals that the home we are encouraged to love and cherish more than ever has shaky foundations.
Read moreTim Gunn’s Guide to Style fails because it adheres too tightly to its own conventions.
Read moreIn addition to presenting viewers with images of urban mayhem, American television now offers a new vision of the city as a bourgeois playground—a bright-lights stage upon which popular fantasies of wealth, power, and distinction can be indulged. Yet, this said, there is still something about this recent celebration of the gentrified city that rankles.
Read moreThe most striking change on white supremacist websites involves mediacasts and post links to other media.
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NBC’s resurrection of (The) Bionic Woman has prompted me to think through the contemporary relevance of bionics, and map its reintroduction against the popular imaginary of the mid-1970s.