Sports Commentary and the Problem of Television Knowledge
Given the ubiquity of sports commentary on television, there must be some perceived purpose behind it. But what might that purpose be?
Guy-Coms and the Hegemony of Juvenile Masculinity
“Guy-Coms” are making juvenile mascuinity hegemonic in U.S. culture.
Read moreYouth, representation, and the contemporary history of Canadian TV
Canadian (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.
Read moreInstitutions That Fail, Narratives That Succeed:
Television’s Community Realism Versus Cinema’s Neo-Liberal Hope
Why The Wire and Friday Night Lights are so fundamentally different from Freedom Writers and We Are Marshall–and why that matters.
“A-loan A-gain:”
In the Shadows of Lifestyle Television
An look at daytime loan commercials reveals that the home we are encouraged to love and cherish more than ever has shaky foundations.
Read moreHow Not to Format (or, What the Global Format Trade Could Teach Tim Gunn)
Tim Gunn’s Guide to Style fails because it adheres too tightly to its own conventions.
Read moreUrban Fortunes:
Television, Gentrification, and the American City
In 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 moreWhite Channels
The most striking change on white supremacist websites involves mediacasts and post links to other media.
Read moreIn Search of Bigfoot:
The Use and Obsolescence of Bionics
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.
S, M, L, XL: The Question of Scale in Screen Media
Munt examines the fragmentation of the contemporary screenscape – and the screen-anxiety it produces
Is Internet Politics Better Off Than It Was Four Years Ago?
Will YouTube provide a partcipatory space for citizens in the upcoming election?
Overflow:
Musings on HBO’s Tell Me You Love Me
Two of our senior editors take on HBO’s newest dramatic offering, Tell Me You Love Me.