A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
Editorial: Mommy, Where do Presidents Come From?
by: Kristen Grant / Flow Staff
Scrape off the generous slathering of Velveeta and Commander in Chief reveals itself to be less about who we want the president to be than what we want them to be.
TV in the Season of Compassion Fatigue
by: Diane Negra / University of East Anglia
What, ultimately, drives the production and consumption of television disaster coverage?
TV Revisiting TV: Why TV Does the “Remake” Better than Movies Do
by: Sharon Ross / Columbia College Chicago
How film remakes TV, and how TV remakes TV, too.
Television and the Work of Mourning
by: Tim Anderson / Denison University
How do we cope with the loss of our favorite television shows?
Laughs and Legends, or the Furniture that Glows?: Television as History
by: John Hartley / Queensland College of Technology
How do we write television as history?
When Mullahs Ride the Airwaves: Muslim Televangelists and the Saudi Connection
by: Nabil Echchaibi / Indiana University-Bloomington
An examination of Irqa’ TV’s role in the promotion of Islam in a post-9/11 media landscape.
Awkward Conversations About Uncomfortable Laughter
by: Henry Jenkins / Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Is Sarah Silverman making racist jokes, or jokes about racism?
Living Life in TiVo Time
by: Robert Schrag / North Carolina State University
Robert Schrag examines how the proliferation of highly individualized and instantly gratifying technology like TiVo leads to the fracturing of various realities and interpersonal time and space.
Cybernetic TV
by: Mark Andrejevic / University of Iowa
An exploration of the ways in which “interactive” television “adjusts on the fly” to meet the needs of programmers and viewers.
Krebs, Recycled
by: Daniel Marcus / Goucher College
Remembering Bob Denver as Maynard G. Krebs, a rebellious figure in early television. He was a beatnik icon for suburban youths who dreamed of upsetting accepted morals and conventions.
Exchanges of Value
by: Jason Mittell / Middlebury College
In today’s digital media environment, what’s an episode of Veronica Mars really worth?
Feeling Blue: Katrina, The South, and The Nation
by: Tara McPherson / University of Southern California
A consideration of regional politics in Katrina coverage.