A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
Segregados: Why it is OK to Ignore Spanish-Speaking Television
by: Hector Amaya / Southwestern University
The segregation of Spanish-speaking entertainment from the rest of mainstream television serves not only as a barrier to Latino integration into American society, but also reinforces the idea that there is something logical and reasonable about segregating Spanish from our English-speaking lives.
Paris Hilton–Anthropologist: The Production of Cross-Cultural Difference in First-Person Adventure Television
by: Adam Fish / UCLA
With emphasis on cultural encounters, first-person, reality-based adventure television shares formal and theoretical similarities with select phases in the history and methodology of ethnography.
Wasn’t That Show Cancelled? – part two
by: Nichola Dobson / Independent scholar based in Scotland
DVD’s sales, TV cable reruns and support from fans have been essential in the comeback of some TV programs; however these demonstrations have not worked evenly for all the cancelled shows. Which are the programming-industrial logics and politics behind a TV program’s come back?
Cold Case: Ripped from the Headlines
by: Melissa Jane Hardie / University of Sydney
The proliferation of “ripped from the headline stories” impose the task of harmonising “real” events into more predictable narratives of frustration.
Editorial: Performing Politics
by: Nick Marx / FLOW Staff
Can Stephen Colbert bully Democrats back into power this midterm?
Welcome to Flow, Volume 5
by: Marnie Binfield and Matt Payne / FLOW Coordinating Editors
See what the new volume has in store.
How TV Met Narrative Sophistication
by: Craig Jacobsen / Mesa Community College
That atypical narrative strategies now appear, without fanfare, in successful if unremarkable mainstream broadcast shows demonstrates that television may be ready to fulfill its potential as a sophisticated narrative medium.
Redefining Television
by: Ray Cha / Independent Scholar
Advances in technology require new uses of old phrases.
Wall to Wall
by: Alan McKee / Queensland University of Technology
Why would hundreds of millions of people around the world watch Dallas? What strange hypnotism could it exude? It must, of course, be an expression of the unfettered power of America to impose its own culture on that of other countries. What other reason could there be for its success?
Awaken the Giant Within — He’s Hungry!:
Anthony Robbins and the Enterprising Self
by: Gareth Palmer / University of Salford
An investigation of Robbins’ human potential movement and how it is perfectly aligned with the project of governmental self-formation to shape our conduct in ways that match those of dominant authorities and agencies.
Special Features on Flow Needs You!
by: Jean Lauer and Special Features Editors
Do you have ideas to share with the readers of Flow? Flow’s 5th Volume is here, and we’re always looking for the next Special Feature.
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