Television, Film and Creative Labor
An examination of labor and class in the fields of television and film.
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SURF TV
Relationships between depicting “surfing” in television shows and surfing through the Internet and TV.
Read moreThe Good, The Bad, and the Best
A&E’s reality series Dog: The Bounty Hunter presents intersections of crime, religious faith, and branding.
Read moreInstitutions That Fail, Narratives That Succeed:
Television’s Community Realism Versus Cinema’s Neo-Liberal Hope
Why The Wire and Friday Night Lights are so fundamentally different from Freedom Writers and We Are Marshall–and why that matters.
The Cult of Æon Flux
What happened to the transgressive pleasures of Aeon Flux when it moved from small screen to large?
Punk-Rock Presidency: The State of Presidential Satire on Television
by: Jeffrey P. Jones / Old Dominion University
Presidential caricature on television has come a long way from the days of presidential impersonators on late-night talk shows or sketch comedy send-ups on Saturday Night Live. The bookending of the Bush presidency by Comedy Central’s That’s My Bush! and
Lil’ Bush announces a bold new era in the satirization
of a sitting president.
Notes on Children Unlike Others
by: Olivier Tchouaffe / FLOW Staff
The recent media focus on former child soldiers from Africa serves to not only draw attention to the plight of similar youths, but make a compelling argument in favor of
pacifist politics.
Modern Love?
by: Judith Halberstam / University of Southern California
New York Times column “Modern Love” records the ups
and downs, the byroads and hidden paths of contemporary romance for urban, mostly white, mostly heterosexual men and women.
La televisión mexicana y la transformación del poder en México en el siglo XXI
by: Javier Esteinou Madrid / Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Unidad Xochimilco
Entramos en la fase histórica de vivir bajo el imperio
del nuevo poder informal de los medios de difusión colectivos. / We are entering a new historical phase in which we live under the empire of the new informal power of collective mass media.
La telenovela mexicana en el ciberespacio
by: Claudia Benassini Félix / Tecnológico de Monterrey, State of Mexico
La telenovela mexicana es uno de los productos más exitosos de la televisión nacional pero también enfrenta
la competencia de otros países. / Telenovelas represent one of the most successful products to emerge from Mexico’s television industry, but they have always faced competition from other countries.
La info-estructura de los 22 portales o sitios ciudadanos de los países
by: Octavio Islas and Arturo Caro / Tecnológico de Monterrey, State of Mexico
Un resumen de los resultados que arrojó el estudio de usabilidad de los 22 portales y sitios web ciudadanos de los países ubicados en la plataforma continental de América. / Results are shown for the usability study done to 22 websites dedicated to citizen information of countries located in the continental platform of America.
Watching TV Without Pity
by: Mark Andrejevic / University of Iowa
Rip-on-your-favorite-show sites elevate the attempt to make bad TV more entertaining to a popular art form. In the Television Without Pity world, the show is no longer the final product, but rather the raw material to which value is added.