Mommy, Is That a Boy Text or a Girl Text?
by: Jonathan Gray / Fordham University
How do audiences come to understand a text as having a gender, and/or a gendered audience?
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Hutto’s Children: Maddening Structures of Absence
by: Hector Amaya / Southwestern University
YouTube allows unseen detained children the chance to be witnessed, but is anyone watching?
Everything is Under Control
by: Daniel Chamberlain / USC
Celebrations of viewer control display a marked historical shortsightedness, reveal a familiar deployment of gendered discourse, and raise questions about inequality of access
in a rapidly tiering television environment.
La telenovela mexicana en el ciberespacio
by: Claudia Benassini Félix / Tecnológico de Monterrey, State of Mexico
La telenovela mexicana es uno de los productos más exitosos de la televisión nacional pero también enfrenta
la competencia de otros países. / Telenovelas represent one of the most successful products to emerge from Mexico’s television industry, but they have always faced competition from other countries.
Região, Raça, e Clase Social: Recepcão de TV na Salvador, Bahia
by: Joe Straubhaar / University of Texas at Austin
O mito de democrácia racial no Brasil posiciona o pensamento crítico sobre os textos de televisão em termos de classe, mas entrevistas em Salvador, Bahia, Brasil, mostra uma tendência entre algumas pessoas de pensar em termos raciais e criticos. / A widespread myth of racial democracy in Brazil tends to position critical thinking about television texts in terms of class, but interviews in Salvador, Bahia show an emerging tendency among some to think in more critical racial terms.
El Inicio de la Investigación Científica de la Comunicación Social en América Latina
by: José Luis Ortiz Garza / Universidad Panamericana
Información sobre el proyecto Office of Inter-American Affairs [OIAA] dirigido por Nelson Rockefeller. / Information about the the Office of Inter-American
Affairs [OIAA], a project directed by Nelson Rockefeller.
Everybody Hates Chris and the (Overdue) Return of the Working-Class Sitcom
by: Tim Gibson / George Mason University
On Everybody Hates Chris, class issues are largely explored in Chris’s home life, while the show’s writers
use Chris’s travails at Corleone to foreground questions
of race.
Watching TV Without Pity
by: Mark Andrejevic / University of Iowa
Rip-on-your-favorite-show sites elevate the attempt to make bad TV more entertaining to a popular art form. In the Television Without Pity world, the show is no longer the final product, but rather the raw material to which value is added.
Comics to Film (And Halfway Back Again): A DVD Essay
by: Drew Morton / UCLA
By constructing visual essays, cinema and media studies scholars dip their hands into processes they think and write so much about.
When the Whole World is Watching: The Case of Celebrity Big Brother
by: Sarita Malik / Brunel University
Now that we can begin to look back at Celebrity Big Brother in less impulsive, more diagnostic ways, the major upshot – aside from a surefire boost to Shilpa Shetty’s international career following her win –
should be the critical attention paid to Channel 4’s role.
Bigoted Brother 1, Forgotten Sisters
by: Kim Akass and Janet McCabe
Sanctifying sexism as long as your target is a racist – this article explores the sexist discourse surrounding media coverage of the recent “race row” on the UK show Celebrity Big Brother and the controversial figure of Jade Goody.
Queering Justin
by: Hector Amaya / Southwestern University
How does the Justin character on Ugly Betty factor into and complicate debates about queer representations on television?