Le Petit Mort: Toddlers and Tiaras and Economic Decline
Hollis Griffin/Colby College
Hollis Griffin writes about Toddlers and Tiaras as a representation of economic anxiety.
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How Long Will it Last, and Do You Really Own It?
Wheeler Winston Dixon / The University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Winston Wheeler Dixon wonders: what will happen to ownership when media content will cease to be material?
Read moreAmaranth Weed
Scott Webel / Museum of Ephemerata
A discussion of amaranth, garden blogs, and affective gardening.
Read moreCaptain America’s hybrid masculinity, or the [r]emasculation of the 21st century hero
Feliks Garcia / FLOW Staff
A look at changing body types in contemporary superhero cinema.
Read moreAcrophobia: IRT: Deadliest Roads and the Pitfalls of Neoliberal Globalization
Jacob Hustedt / FLOW Staff
Ice Road Truckers’ manufactured collision of cultures, and how the politics of old colonialism continue to reverberate in the transnational tides of neoliberal capitalism.
Read moreAccessing Historical Documentaries in the Convenient Digital Age
Heather McIntosh / Boston College
Heather McIntosh’s contribution examines the changing modes of online film distribution, and how scarcely distributed documentaries are being made available via online streaming sites.
Read moreThoughts on Dark Camp
Lokeilani Kaimana / FLOW Staff
Lokeilani Kaimana interrogates Christeene’s music video Bustin’ Brown’ as an example of dark camp.
Read morePrimetime Gametime
Steven Boyer / University of Glasgow
Steven Boyer investigates the failure of Microsoft’s Primetime.
Read moreDoing Double Duty: Toward a Theory of “Compound Otherness” on Television
Alfred L. Martin, Jr. / Flow Co-Managing Editor
Alfred L. Martin, Jr., works toward a theory of compound otherness on television.
Read more“Who Gon Check Me Boo”: Reality TV as a Haven For Black Women’s Affect
Kristen Warner / University of Alabama
Warner’s contribution analyzes the way in which black women engage with texts within shows such as the Real Housewives franchise outside the bounds of whiteness.
Read moreMore than just ‘Lip Service‘?- Stereotypes in lesbian focused drama
Faye Davies / Birmingham City University
A discussion of the representation of butchness and bisexuality in the lesbian TV drama.
Read more“It’s a Very Curious English Thing”: Failed Pilots for American Remakes of British Television
Iain Robert Smith / Roehampton University
The failure of American adaptations of British shows such as Spaced, Red Dwarf and The IT Crowd can be attributed to its lack of success in adapting to the new national context.
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