A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
How Network Branding, Promotion and Scheduling Determine the Success or Failure of Network Shows
By: Amanda D. Lotz / University of Michigan
How network branding, promotion and scheduling determine the success or failure of network shows.
Simply Propaganda?
By: John Corner / University of Liverpool
The problem with propaganda? The misleading deployment of the term.
The Regeneration of Doctor Who: The Ninth Doctor and the Influence of the Slayer
By: Nichola Dobson / Independent Scholar
A look at the mutual influence of television between US and Britian.
Editorial: Now That We've Found Internet Programming, What Are We Gonna Do With It?
By: David M. Gurney / University of Texas at Austin
A meditation on where viewing habits are migrating at a time when the profile of internet broadcasting is increasing by the day.
The Lure of American Idol Explained: Parasocial Relationships and Emotional Vicarious Living in Live TV
By: Carol Morgan / Wright State University
It may be “mindless” television, but the relationships formed between the home audience and the contestants of American Idol illuminate the current state of the American Dream.
Life on Animal Planet
By: Mark Andrejevic / University of Iowa
Animal Planet documentaries offer a disturbing mirror through which to view the pathologies of our current social reality.
Attend the Flow Conference!
By: Flow Staff
Join one of the roundtables at the upcoming Flow conference!
Where the Boys Are: Postfeminism and the New Single Man
By: Diane Negra / Brown University
In films such as Wedding Crashers and Failure to Launch, the emergent “problem” single man offers an opportunity to think about the nature and function of postfeminist masculinities in current popular culture.
Introducing Television
By: Jonathan Gray / Fordham University
The key to any television program’s themes, characters and stylistic characteristics are often mapped out within the first few moments of every episode, in the introductory sequence.
À la carte Culture
By: John McMurria / DePaul University
What are the cultural repercussions of an à la carte cable? And does anyone in the FCC care?
(TV)antipathy: A Prolegomena to the Metaphysics of Television Hating, Part One
By: David Lavery / Middle Tennessee State University
Part One of Two–An evolving commentary on the mind-numbing role of TV in individual and social life.
Food for Thought
By: Dana Polan / New York University
The sushi’s on us: How The Sopranos is “assailing the very demographic that makes up its preferred fan base,” via our stomachs.