What’s Happening on the Soaps? And Why Should We Care?
by: Elana Levine / University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
The paradoxically expanding and shrinking world of daytime soap operas.
Continued: An Interview with Student Writers and Filmmakers
by: Marnie R. Binfield and Jean A. Lauer / University of Texas
A Supplement to The Velvet Light Trap issue on Authorship: An interview with student filmmakers and screenwriters who also teach filmmaking at the University of Texas. Part 2 of 2.
Editorial Special Feature: An Interview with Student Writers and Filmmakers
by: Marnie R. Binfield and Jean A. Lauer / FLOW Staff
A Supplement to The Velvet Light Trap issue on Authorship: An interview with student filmmakers and screenwriters who also teach filmmaking at the University of Texas.
The Dancer or the Dance?: Uses of Television and Video
by: Jennifer Warren / Independent Scholar
Internationally acclaimed dance troupe Capacitor uses video to add texture and depth to performances.
Enforced Talk: Crime and Confessional in Family Forensics
by: Yvonne Tasker / University of East Anglia
What revelations does Family Forensics uncover?
“New Media”? Please Define.
by: Tim Anderson / Denison University
New gaming systems are acting as sites of hyper-convergence for media. But is media convergence all that “new”? Should we be reconsidering the “new” in “new media”?
Zoey 101 and the Tween Supertext Circa 2006
by: Megan Mullen / University of Wisconsin-Parkside
A new aggressive commercialization in TV programming is in tune to a new multiple-technology and multiple-platform entertainment that most in the electronic entertainment industries believe is the wave of the future.
Buy Robot
by: Craig Jacobsen / Mesa Community College
The mimicking of commercial promotional forms to hawk fictional wares has become a potent tool for the creation of verisimilitude in entertainment.
Fox News and the Redefinition of “Objectivity” in U.S. News Media
by: Shanti Kumar / University of Texas at Austin
In the world of 24-hour cable news, Fox News has emerged as the dominant channel by redefining journalistic “objectivity” as only a path toward a greater goal.
CSI is Effecting Me
by: Melissa Crawley / Lingnan University, Hong Kong
CSI makes it look so easy.
Is It Live or Is It Real?: Live Television's Shrinking Significance in Modern Life
By: Jeffrey Johnson / Michigan State University
Are the excitement and spontaneity of live television really gone or have they just adopted a different form?
Coming Soon: A Supplement to The Velvet Light Trap: An Interview With Student Filmmakers/Teachers
By: Marnie R. Binfield and Jean A. Lauer / The University of Texas at Austin
In the next two issues of Flow, we will be running a special feature: a two-part interview with student filmmakers and screenwriters who also teach filmmaking at the University of Texas. Look for it here in the May 12th issue (Vol. 4 Issue 5) and the May 26th issue (Vol. 4 Issue 6).