A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
Marriage as the New Trend
by: Moya Luckett / New York University
Marriage and motherhood seem to be both desirable and scarce for women in today’s current television programs. Examples are found in such shows as Desperate Housewives, My Fair Brady, Breaking Bonaduce and others.
Reconsidering the Technological Limitations and Potential of Large Format
by: Mary L. Nucci / Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
An examination of the state of IMAX film and how digital remastering of Hollywood films may affect the format.
This Week on Flow… (7 October 2005)
by: Elliot Panek / FLOW Staff
Celebrating a year of FLOW!
The “Popular Culture and Philosophy” Books and Philosophy: Philosophy, You’ve Officially Been Pimped
by: Brian L. Ott / Colorado State University
Brian Ott takes a tongue-in-cheek look at the faux-wit and wisdom of the Popular Culture and Philosophy books.
Desperate Citizens
by: John McMurria / DePaul University
Extreme Makeover Home Edition contestants are portrayed as good and deserving citizens who are the victims of misfortunes beyond their control. However, while EMHE helps these deserving citizens, the corporate sponsored show fails to recognize the irony inherent in the fact that it is these very corporations that contribute to these problems in the first place.
The Los Angeles Misanthrope
by: Walter Metz / Montana State University at Bozeman
Online publication, such as Flow, allows academics the much needed space to contemporaneously intervene into the reception of films and TV programs while they are still attended by the general population. The benefit of these interventions is changing the nature of reception by making it relevant to its time.
The August Audience
by: Jonathan Gray / Fordham University
While television networks are rolling out their lineups of new shows this month, many potential viewers have already decided which programs they will tune in to, and which they will actively avoid. How does pre-season marketing play in to the way audiences interpret television texts, and how do we analyze those readings as critics in television studies?
Micro-Ethnographies of the Screen: The Supermarket
by: Dan Leopard / University of Southern California
Dan Leopard considers the screens we ignore as we shop for food.
Hurricane Spectacles and the Crisis of the Bush Presidency
by: Douglas Kellner / UCLA
(How) will the Bush image weather criticism leveled at his administration in the wake of Hurricane Katrina?
This Week on Flow … Rita’s Paradox
by: Matthew Thomas Payne / FLOW Staff
Thoughts on Rita’s paradox: that the disintegration of social support networks and infrastructure offer the greatest catalyst for respectable and responsible journalism.
Sim City or Dream City? Computer Imaging in the Reconstruction of Iraq
by: Clare Bratten / Middle Tennessee State University
Technology is affording visual and virtual realization of a new Iraq.
Get Lost in a Good Story: Serial Creativity on a Desert Island
by: David Lavery / Middle Tennessee State University
Can Lost sustain its suspense while retaining the good faith of and credibility with a deeply inquisitive viewership, determined to puzzle out its mysteries?