The Making of My Mothering Movie: Birthright
Celine Parreñas Shimizu / UCSB
A new film explores the complex mix of the emotion, politics, and personal obligations of motherhood.
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
Celine Parreñas Shimizu / UCSB
A new film explores the complex mix of the emotion, politics, and personal obligations of motherhood.
A look at some of the issues raised by Britain’s Got Talent including the emotional labor of both audiences and contestants and advertising revenue on television and the internet.
An analysis of FX’s Damages as a program about law “out-of-order,” enacting a liberal revenge fantasy through Glenn Close’s character, Patty Hewes.
Read moreAn examination of how the absence of reruns of Canadian programming on Canadian television effects Canadian nostalgia and national memory.
Read moreWhat happens when falling satellites become high profile events.
Read moreA discussion of the infrastructure behind the Mexican mobile music industry
Read moreAn analysis of speed-elitist capitalism and the self-contradictory nature of global warming policy.
Read moreConsideration of the opportunities available to local television production and consumption in a world of new technologies and new economies.
Read moreFriedman applies the theoretical work of Carl Jung to the popular television drama Lost.
Read moreHow should a TV series end? A look at the final episodes of Battlestar Galactica and ER.
Read moreAn exploration of the value contemporary audiences place on the losers of competitive reality television shows.
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