A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
Want to Hear a Scary Story?
by: Eileen R Meehan / Lousiana State University
Behind Van Helsing lurked a scary tale waiting to be told: General Electric’s purchase of Vivendi’s Universal Vivendi Entertainment unit, which made and released Van Helsing.
“Lost”
by: Allison McCracken / DePaul University
With a fall season marked by the popularity of programs entitled Without a Trace and Lost, the importance of loss as a televisual theme seems rather obvious.
News Corporation: From the Local to the Global
by: John Sinclair / Victoria University, Melbourne
At the end of last month, October 2004, Rupert Murdoch won shareholder approval to move News Corporation’s domicile and main stock market listing from Australia to the US.
10,000 Years of Media Flow
by: Faye Ginsburg / New York University
It’s one of those unseasonably warm Saturdays in November, a beautiful autumn day in New York City that competes with the films being shown in darkened rooms during the annual Margaret Mead Film Festival.
A Column About Columns
by: Horace Newcomb / University of Georgia
I wanted to provoke talk and thought about television, to show that it could be taken seriously.
Super Freaks
by: Heather Hendershot / Queens College
Whatever TV lacks in form it sometimes makes up for in content. TV may not look good, but it feels good.
Desperately Seeking Bandwidth
by: Thomas Streeter / University of Vermont
Broadband internet had chased me down into the privacy of my home. And then it seduced me.
Casting Shirley Partridge: The Reality TV Audience as Talent Scout
by: Mary Beth Haralovich / University of Arizona
Reality television is developing a new force on the creative side of television production as the TV audience joins television executives in the creation of entertainment programming.
Media Spectacle and the Wired Bush Controversy
by: Douglas Kellner / UCLA
During a media age, image and spectacle are of crucial importance in presidential campaigns.
The Audience Factor
by: Melissa Crawley / Lingnan University, Hong Kong
On The O’Reilly Factor on The Fox News Channel, host Bill O’Reilly introduces topics highlighted by recent news stories and spars with guests who represent each side of the issue.
Small Pleasures
by: Mimi White / Northwestern University
Can you love and hate a television show at one and the same time?
MGM, DVD, and “TV”
by: Thomas Schatz / University of Texas-Austin
Could DVD be the force that finally ushers in HD?