A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
Recap Nation: Repetition and the TV Program as Commodity
by: Moya Luckett / New York University
The internet has seen an explosion in the number of programs offering recaps of television programs. How are these recaps serving to extend and repeat television’s texts, and what does their popularity say about viewers’ relationship with recaps?
Sitcom Aesthetics, Intertextuality, and Lucky Louie
by: Walter Metz / Montana State University at Bozeman
At first Lucky Louie seems like a a sex- and expletive-filled version of The Honeymooners, but, after ten episodes, it also appears to be is the most intertextually rich show on television.
Don Knotts: Reluctant Sex Object
by: Heather Hendershot / Queens College
Heather Hendershot explores Don Knotts’ unique on-screen sexual persona.
Break Over
by: Craig Jacobsen / Mesa Community College
Craig Jacobsen continues the FLOW conversation on ARGs and “The Lost Experience,” speculating on the advertising strategy and the relationships between text and audience.
Meet the Dead – Live!: Paranormal Programming
by: Yvonne Tasker / University of East Anglia
An exploration of the recent paranormal trend in television.
The Summer of the Superheroes
by: Jennifer Warren / Independent Scholar
When I walked out of Superman I found myself wondering about the filter Superman’s seductive mythology created, with characters clearly defined as Heroes or Villains. And how did that visual mythology affect how we viewed the world?
At the End of the Day We’re all “End Users”
by: Tim Anderson / Denison University
Reflections on audio-vidual media’s entrance into the world of the “end user.”
Seeing the Back of Berlusconi? The Current Situation of the Media in Italy
by: Hugh Kesson / Deakin University
Will Italy’s media be changed by its recent changes in leadership?
by: Mark Andrejevic / University of Iowa
Commercial broadcasting has, from its inception, been about monitoring viewers; this is why the history of the ratings industry has become entwined with that of military and police surveillance.
Strategic Liberalism and Media Reform
by John McMurria / DePaul University
Are we in for more of the same deregulatory policies and neoliberal principles that informed the 1996 Telecommunications Act?
by Amanda Lotz / University of Michigan
How today’s network television depicts (or fails to depict) the changing lives of Generation X.
Honey, We’re Killing the Kids
by: Laurie Ouellette / University of Minnesota
How does the revitalization of social work through television politicize personal choice and parental responsibility? And, what do the televisual excesses represented on Honey We’re Killing the Kids reveal about the politics of desire?