Primetime’s Incompetent Liberalism
by: Shawn Shimpach / University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Primetime’s liberalism is both the problem and solution to its perceived red state/blue state divide.
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
Primetime’s Incompetent Liberalism
by: Shawn Shimpach / University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Primetime’s liberalism is both the problem and solution to its perceived red state/blue state divide.
Temporary Guantanomous Zones: Reality Camps and Crucibles
by: Jack Z. Bratich / Rutgers University
Rather than passively view the proliferation of camps in contemporary reality TV, we can ask how this spatial figure is more than a tool of domination.
The Simultaneous Dawning and Twilight of Broadcast Network Narrative
by: Craig Jacobsen / Mesa Community College
It isn’t hard to imagine a future in which broadcasting serves the role of advertising and secondary revenue stream for the primary medium: complete seasons of episodes packed for sale on DVD or for download.
Post CSI-TV: The Ecstasies of Dexter
by: Michele Byers / Saint Mary’s University
How does Dexter compare with network-series CSI? The programs have similar themes and topics, but different in tones and humor, perhaps associated with network/non-network programming.
ESPN’s “Full Circle” and Media Convergence
by: Harper Cossar / Georgia State University
As ESPN continues to experiment with its broad-reaching network of media outlets, we can be certain that more unique ways to cover sporting events will follow, and for sports fans, that is a good thing.
Considering Flow
by: Doug Battema / Western New England College
The FLOW conference tackled many of TV scholars’ favorite topics, but other aspects of the medium, such as television advertising and sports programming, need to be examined with the same critical regimen we apply to narrative, fictional programming.
by: Bernard Timberg / East Carolina University
The proposed “Citizen’s Fair Use Declaration of Rights” redefines fair use as a legal issue that has become a political issue.
“Don’t Know Much About History”:
What Counts as Historical Work in Television Studies
by: Aniko Bodroghkozy / University of Virginia
What are the parameters of scholarship in television history and why archival research matters.
Intervention and the Kodak Moment
by: Eric Freedman / Florida Atlantic University
Photographic objecthood, migratory patterns and the familial gaze in A&E’s Intervention
Editorial: A Netroots Majority
by: Katherine Haenschen / FLOW Staff
Progressive Internet groups are finally changing the political map.
by: John Corner / University of Liverpool
The limits and possibilities of political critique on Spooks.
How Do I Explain This?
by: Jennifer Warren / Independent Scholar
At Burning Man, everywhere you look, there are art installations and art cars and art bikes and art camps and artful people.