Is There a Detective in the House?
by: Chandler Harriss / Alfred University
An examination of the use and usefulness of genre in television studies.
Micro-Ethnographies of the Screen: Sign-Off
by: Dan Leopard / St. Mary’s College of California
For his final column, Dan Leopard examines the television sign off.
Rooting for Betty
by: Mary Beltrán / University of Wisconsin-Madison
Ugly Betty: Are beauty and worthiness equated with whiteness?
Post CSI-TV: The Ecstasies of Dexter
by: Michele Byers / Saint Mary’s University
How does Dexter compare with network-series CSI? The programs have similar themes and topics, but different in tones and humor, perhaps associated with network/non-network programming.
Civilized Viewing and its Discontents
by: Lynne Joyrich / Brown University
Is watching television (whether alone or with others) good for you? Lynne Joyrich examines the constructions of the self and the familial, and their implications for TV viewers, in shows from Dexter to Ugly Betty.
Mixing Mythology, Science and Fiction: The Sci-fi Genre in Indian Film and Television
by: Shanti Kumar / University of Texas-Austin
With a limited but growing pool of experienced talent that is increasingly becoming adept in the use of animation and special-effects technologies, the Indian animation industry is looking both inward and outward for business and creative opportunities.
ESPN’s “Full Circle” and Media Convergence
by: Harper Cossar / Georgia State University
As ESPN continues to experiment with its broad-reaching network of media outlets, we can be certain that more unique ways to cover sporting events will follow, and for sports fans, that is a good thing.
The Conference in Brief…
by: Flow Conference Participants
Read what folks had to say about the conference in review and on blogs.
Passion is No Ordinary Word
by: Tim Anderson / Denison University
Flow, the conference, worked for the same reason that the online journal does: it simply doesn’t feel careerist in any conventional way, shape or form.
Flow Fuzzies and Forget-Me-Nots
by: Avi Santo / Old Dominion University
What will be the legacy of the Flow Conference?
Collaboration, Community, and Interdisciplinarity
by: Michael Kackman / University of Texas-Austin
Like most interesting things, the Flow Conference was an experiment. And like most experiments, it generated some unexpected results.
Considering Flow
by: Doug Battema / Western New England College
The FLOW conference tackled many of TV scholars’ favorite topics, but other aspects of the medium, such as television advertising and sports programming, need to be examined with the same critical regimen we apply to narrative, fictional programming.