Hey, Klaatu! Call Peter!: The State of Fluff, part 1
by: Eileen R. Meehan / Louisiana State University
When Frank Rich nails media wastrels, they stay nailed.
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
Hey, Klaatu! Call Peter!: The State of Fluff, part 1
by: Eileen R. Meehan / Louisiana State University
When Frank Rich nails media wastrels, they stay nailed.
Why Media Scholars Should Write Corporate Histories
by: Frederick Wasser / Brooklyn College
Several trade publications have received notices that last month was the tenth anniversary of the launch of WB and UPN, the fifth and sixth broadcast TV networks, dubbed by the trades in their argot as “weblets.”
What the Arab World Should be Watching
by: Nabil Echchaibi / Indiana University
I still cherish the memory of my old shortwave radio tucked underneath my bed when I was in Morocco.
Terrorists Watching TV
by: Cynthia Fuchs / George Mason University
About a half hour into Antonia Bird’s The Hamburg Cell, a group of young Muslims are watching TV.
Interview with Sara Leeder, Segment Producer for CNBC’s “Topic [A] with Tina Brown”
by: Hollis Griffin / FLOW Staff
Sara Leeder: “For me, the hardest thing about working in a 24-hour news environment is keeping myself constantly attuned to what ‘the news’ is, when ‘the news’ is always changing.”
Interview: Jason Reich, writer on The Daily Show
by: Chris Lucas / FLOW Staff
Jason Reich: “I think that part of the reason what we do is so frequently perceived as ‘liberal’ is because we’re talking about the news, and these days, the people making the news are, by and large, conservatives…”
TV Legal Drama Speaks to U.S. Citizens
by: Mary Beth Haralovich / University of Arizona
In the early 1970s, Dirty Harry famously took on the issue of constitutional rights for US citizens suspected of crimes. Clint Eastwood’s cop movie launched the popular narrative enigma that would influence decades of television legal drama . . .
Taming the Global on Italian Television
by: Michela Ardizzoni / Indiana University
The famous Dutch television producer, Endemol, will probably go down in the annals of history as a catalyst of standardized television programming across the globe.
“Citizen versus Consumer”: Rethinking Core Concepts
by: Michele Hilmes / University of Wisconsin-Madison
Every so often a core concept emerges in an historical or theoretical field that serves a purpose at the time of its invention but slowly loses its explanatory power…
Apology
by: Cynthia Fuchs / George Mason University
Apologizing is an art. And apologizing for TV is something else.
“Lost”
by: Allison McCracken / DePaul University
With a fall season marked by the popularity of programs entitled Without a Trace and Lost, the importance of loss as a televisual theme seems rather obvious.
A Column About Columns
by: Horace Newcomb / University of Georgia
I wanted to provoke talk and thought about television, to show that it could be taken seriously.