Television’s Aesthetic of Dead-Ness
by: Dana Polan / New York University
On “Jumping the Shark” and other ways popular culture frustrates and reneges on its promises.
The Televisual Tour de France on OLN: Confessions of a “Cynic”
by: Walter Metz / Montana State University-Bozeman
For Metz, Lance Armstrong winning an unprecedented seven Tours de France is not a matter of national pride.
Separated at Birth?
by: Justin Wyatt / ABC Television Network
The charms of The Andy Milonakis Show.
Teaching Television, or What I’ve Learned From Flow
by: Derek Kompare / Southern Methodist University
Rediscovering the excitement of teaching television studies.
Bussing the News
by: Vicki Mayer / Tulane University
A snapshot of how real people discuss the news in an unexpected public forum.
The latest in reality TV? Māori Television stakes a claim on the world stage
by: Faye Ginsburg and April Strickland / NYU
A closer look at Maori Television.
“C’mon Get Happy!” Partridge Family Values
by: Allison McCracken / DePaul University
Why the Partridges are better than the Bradys.
Colostomy Bags, Masturbation and Naked Chicken Dancing: The Information World According to Avid Merrion
by: James Walker / Nottingham Trent University
Examining “celebrity culture” through Bo’ Selecta.
Fluff: “The Final Frontier”
by: Eileen Meehan / Louisiana State University
Part three of Meehan’s series on the state of fluff television: more on Peter Jennings’ report on UFOs and how it fails to satisfy as either news or fluff.
This Issue on Flow (08 July 2005)
by: Matthew Payne / FLOW Staff
Welcome to Issue 8.
Race Fictions: Crash, Do the Right Thing and La Haine
by: John Downing / Southern Illinios University
The portrayal of modern race relations in Paul Haggis’ Crash is compared to Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing and Matthieu Kassovitz’s La Haine.
Academic Scandals and the Broadcast Media
by: Rhonda Hammer and Douglas Kellner / UCLA
Publish and Perish … the politics of academic scandals.