More than Meets the Ear: Dubbing and Accents on TVKaren Lury / University of Glasgow
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A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
Karen Lury / University of Glasgow
An examination of the links between consumerism and online virtual worlds aimed at children.
Read moreJoan Hawkins / University of Indiana, Bloomington
Members of an avante-garde artists’ collective are brought before the Grand Jury and investigated on the charge of bio-terrorism.
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NBC’s Ben Silverman has launched a successful “infront” and made self-dealing expected–even non-controversial–in the current business climate.
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Eli Stone: why introduce the spiritual lawyer-prophet now?
John W. Jordan / UW-Milwaukee
How will television write its own history of the writers’ strike?
A reprint of Brian L. Ott’s essay on cultural appropriation.
Anna Beatrice Scott / University of California, Riverside
The flash mob mentality and our perception of time.
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A reprint of Laurie Ouellette’s analysis of altruistic reality television.
A reprint of Toby Miller’s essay on televised intellectualism.
A reprint of a Flow piece in which Natalie Cannon, Zak Salih, and Angela Nemecek engage in a debate regarding the HBO program Carnivale.
Many of the films featured at this year’s Oscars — including Best Picture winner No Country for Old Men — feature a morally ambiguous conclusion in which the evil still lurks “out there.” What does this say about our contemporary social experience?
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