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.
Reentry
by: Mimi White / Northwestern University
Mimi White explores the differences and similarities between television as an everyday practice in the U.S. and in Finland upon returning from abroad.
Report from Ringside: The Contender Live Finale
by: Mary Beth Haralovich / University of Arizona
A report back from the live Contender finale, which turns out to be a familial arena as much as a fighting one.
A Slice of American Life
by: Megan Mullen / University of Wisconsin-Parkside
Megan Mullen unwraps the ideological twist underneath the nostalgic programming strategies and family oriented programs delivered by AmericanLife TV.
What is Commercialism?
by: Thomas Streeter / University of Vermont
What is exactly wrong with for-profit television industries? Thomas Streeter refocuses the conversation over the dangers of commercialism.
Little Green Men
by: Christopher Anderson / Indiana University
The troubling ironies of GE’s “ecoimagination” campaign.
Postfeminism Lost and Found: Tracking the “Runaway Bride”
by: Diane Negra / University of East Anglia
Diane Negra discusses the media coverage of the “runaway bride.”
This Issue on Flow (24 June 2005)
by: Elliot Panek / FLOW Staff
Welcome to Issue 7.
Discovering the Art of Television’s Endings
by: Jane Feuer / University of Pittsburgh
A consideration of the aesthetics of the television season finale.
Flowers Powers: Mars or Venus?
by: John Hartley/ Queensland University of Technology
Is media studies in need of planetary realignment? Or, how learning to appreciate Benny Hill might solve the Fiske/McChesney divide.