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.
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.