TV Revisiting TV: Why TV Does the “Remake” Better than Movies Do
by: Sharon Ross / Columbia College Chicago
How film remakes TV, and how TV remakes TV, too.
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
TV Revisiting TV: Why TV Does the “Remake” Better than Movies Do
by: Sharon Ross / Columbia College Chicago
How film remakes TV, and how TV remakes TV, too.
Television and the Work of Mourning
by: Tim Anderson / Denison University
How do we cope with the loss of our favorite television shows?
Laughs and Legends, or the Furniture that Glows?: Television as History
by: John Hartley / Queensland College of Technology
How do we write television as history?
Exchanges of Value
by: Jason Mittell / Middlebury College
In today’s digital media environment, what’s an episode of Veronica Mars really worth?
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.
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?
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?
The Value of Lost, Part Two
by: Jason Mittell / Middlebury College
Building on his last column, Jason Mittell offers up a gripping example of evaluative criticism to support his claim that “Lost is the best show on American broadcast TV.
Separated at Birth?
by: Justin Wyatt / ABC Television Network
The charms of The Andy Milonakis Show.
“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.
This Issue on Flow (08 July 2005)
by: Matthew Payne / FLOW Staff
Welcome to Issue 8.