Can Rational Thought Be Entertaining?
Ann Johnson / Cal State University, Long Beach
A look at reason-based entertainment in television shows Mythbusters and Bullshit.
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Can Rational Thought Be Entertaining?
What’re youse lookin’ at, Meathead?: Locating Archie Bunker Across Archives
Kimberly Springer / Williams College
Kimberly Springer looks at how America’s “most lovable bigot”, Archie Bunker, lives through the archives.
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Michael Z. Newman / University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Michael Z. Newman’s “The Bronze Fonz” explores not only the relationship between art and popular culture, but between cultural memory and urban space.
Read moreFlow Favorites: Digg, Flickr, and the Colonizing of Bridging Texts
Vanessa Au / University of Washington
Discourse around the author’s image on Digg and Flickr highlight the fact that social media are shot through with race and gender codes.
Read moreFlow Favorites: Around the Antenna Tree: The Politics of Infrastructural Visibility
Lisa Parks / UC Santa Barbara
Lisa Parks’ article revisits the infrastructure of communications media and examines the stakes of devices masked as “nature.”
Read moreFlow Favorites: Quality Television, Melodrama, and Cultural Complexity
Michael Kackman / University of Texas – Austin
This piece sparked a vigorous discussion within the television studies community with its call to think more rigorously about why, exactly, we are drawn to aesthetically and narratively complex TV.
Read moreFlow Favorites: A Specter is Haunting Television Studies
Jeffrey Sconce / Northwestern University
By raising the specter of “dead white men” theorists and their applicability to the 2008 Economic Meltdown, Jefferey Sconce provoked one of the most highly-charged debates on Flow in some time.
Read moreWindow Dressing: Spectacular Costuming in MTV’s The City
Amanda Ann Klein / East Carolina University
An examination of how costume trumps narrative in MTV’s The City.
Read more HBO, Sports Documentary, and Women’s and Girls’ Soccer
Heather McIntosh / Northern Illinois University
A look at the narrative arcs of two HBO Sports’ documentaries about female soccer teams in the U.S.
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Read more‘Using One of its Lifelines’: Does Politics Save Saturday Night Live from Oblivion?
The role of political satire in “rescuing” Saturday Night Live from obscurity and cultural irrelevance.
Jonathan Gray / Fordham University, Jeffrey P. Jones / Old Dominion University, and Ethan Thompson / Texas A&M Corpus Christi