A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
No Regrets
by: Tim Gibson / George Mason University
The boundaries of the permissible on network TV have not expanded to match the public’s ill-mood about the war. And the latest proof of this comes in the most unexpected place of all—Fox’s So You Think You Can Dance.
Watch Now: Netflix, Streaming Movies and Networked Film Publics
by: Chuck Tryon / Fayettesville State University
Computer access content results in new ways of viewing television and film.
by: Flow Staff
Let us know which series you’d revive and those that you’d cancel in our new two-part Flow Poll.
Read moreNot Yo’ Momma’s Cyborg: Transformers Meet More Than Your Eye
by: Anna Beatrice Scott / University of California, Riverside
Fully loaded, tricked out, ripped and raring for a fight, the movie Transformers (2007) provides an opportunity for processing human gesture across the mechanized object.
Can it be argued that those “robots in disguise” ™ are not Haraway’s cyborgs?
“I was marrying sisters … that was my choice:” Big Love, Post-Feminist Choice, Scripted Lives and Judging Women
by: Kim Akass and Janet McCabe / Manchester Metropolitan University
Within the context of religious fundamentalism and right wing politics, HBO’s Big Love offers up some surprising critiques of feminism and female relationships. Here, women are represented as a source of empowerment as well as a site of feminine censure and policing.
Watching Time on Television
by: Daniel Chamberlain / USC
While the ability to watch an hour of prime time television in forty-two minutes, at four in the morning, in a plane,
on a mobile phone, is certainly a break from an earlier era of television, celebrations of temporal mutability have overshadowed the importance of a related phenomenon
— temporal conspicuity.
Neoliberal Parenting and Television
by: Hector Amaya / Southwestern University
The media has succeeded at channeling advertisers’ messages and at creating a world where labor is decentered, consumption is centered, and good
parenting is done with a credit card.
Will BitTorrent Change Television? A Luddite’s View
by: Alan McKee / Queensland University of Technology
We hear that convergence technologies such as BitTorrent are going to change television viewing habits and allow for personal schedules. But is it really true?
Flow Poll #1: Flow in the Classroom
by: Flow Staff
Let us know what you think in our Flow Poll.
The Joys of “Civic TV,” or
Television You Probably Don’t Watch
by: Jeffrey P. Jones / Old Dominion University
Government access television is often much more than boring city council meetings. With an increase in quality productions in communities across the nation, “Civic TV” may be as close as we get in the U.S. to the public
service broadcasting tradition of other nations.
Kyle-Time: You Can’t Touch This
by: Gareth Palmer / University of Salford
Britain’s Jeremy Kyle demonstrates why television’s need to maximize emotional performances and responses means that producers invest in those most likely to offer confessional behaviour for public consumption.
The Empty Archive: Canadian Television and the Erasure of History
by: Michele Byers / Saint Mary’s University
Canadian television texts and the field of Canadian television studies appear to be enjoying a surge of development and visibility, but there is one major stumbling block to this work… there is no archive of Canadian television where materials could be made available to the public, scholarly or otherwise.