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by: Jeffrey P. Jones / Old Dominion University

Presidential caricature on television has come a long way from the days of presidential impersonators on late-night talk shows or sketch comedy send-ups on Saturday Night Live. The bookending of the Bush presidency by Comedy Central’s That’s My Bush! and
Lil’ Bush announces a bold new era in the satirization
of a sitting president.

by: Judith Halberstam / University of Southern California

In contemporary animated feature films for kids, a genre I call “pixarvolt,” certain topics which would never ever appear in adult films are central to the success and emotional impact of the narrative.

by: Raymond Cha / Independent Scholar

Typically, stories covering telecommunications’ complex economic and regulatory issues are fifth-page Business or Technology section news items, if they get mentioned at all. However, when Google weighs in on an issue, the news media perks up.

by: Alex Munt / Macquarie University

Can the death and destruction–of the feature, of celluloid, and cinema-going–be a good thing?

by: Tim Gibson / George Mason University

The boundaries of the permissible on network TV have not expanded to match the public’s ill-mood about the war. And the latest proof of this comes in the most unexpected place of all—Fox’s So You Think You Can Dance.

by: Chuck Tryon / Fayettesville State University

Computer access content results in new ways of viewing television and film.

by: Daniel Chamberlain / USC
While the ability to watch an hour of prime time television in forty-two minutes, at four in the morning, in a plane,
on a mobile phone, is certainly a break from an earlier era of television, celebrations of temporal mutability have overshadowed the importance of a related phenomenon
— temporal conspicuity.

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by: Michele Byers / Saint Mary’s University
Canadian television texts and the field of Canadian television studies appear to be enjoying a surge of development and visibility, but there is one major stumbling block to this work… there is no archive of Canadian television where materials could be made available to the public, scholarly or otherwise.

by: Ray Cha / Independent Scholar

YouTube and other video on demand services are changing the terms of television programming and distribution, as well as control and access over
televisual material.

by: Tim Gibson / George Mason University
What I felt in my bones when I watched this particular episode of Lost was a yearning for the collective life of the castaways. Whatever else happens, these people are in it together. When times are bad, they are bad for everyone. When times are good—like when Hurley liberates the
hatch’s food—they’re good for one and all alike.