A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
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?
Darkness and Light: The Changing Mood of the CSI Franchise
by: Nichola Dobson / Independent Scholar
A closer look at changes in the stylistic conventions of the CSI franchise due to audience reaction.
The Dynamics of Political Re-Branding
by: John Corner / University of Liverpool
The impact of commercial marketing techniques in the political landscape.
Family, Fate and the Finale of Will and Grace
by: Kathleen Battles / Denison University and Wendy Hilton-Morrow / Augustana College
On the limitations and possibilities of imagining families in a non-heteronormative way in the finale of Will & Grace.
The Curious State of Live TV
by: John Tomasic / The University of Paris-Dauphine
With new technologies providing access to “realness,” the novelty of live television may be wearing off.
Lost in an Alternate Reality
by: Jason Mittell / Middlebury College
What can the online game “The Lost Experience” teach us about cross-media storytelling and expectations? Is this the future of television?
Micro-Ethnographies of the Screen: Classical Baby
by: Dan Leopard / St. Mary’s College of California
Part of screen series; discussion of media and the baby spectator, HBO’s “Classical Baby” DVD, how to raise a smart, discerning little person. Adorno; mass culture; baby’s place in it…
(TV)antipathy: A Prolegomena to the Metaphysics of Television Hating, Part Two
by: David Lavery / Middle Tennesse State University
Part Two of Two–An evolving commentary on the critical tendency to love-to-hate TV.
Is New News Better Than No News?
by: Jonathan Gray / Fordham University
While traditional television news shows are stumbling in their efforts to inform and engage the public, a new crop of innovative news programs offers hope for the future of the form.
Foucault TV
by: Dana Polan / New York University
What does it mean when a Foucault text shows up in The West Wing finale, besides a “TIVo moment for critical theorists?”