Awkward Conversations About Uncomfortable Laughter
A reprint of an essay by Henry Jenkins on Sarah Silverman that inspired the most comments in our publishing history.
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Don Knotts: Reluctant Sex Object
Don Knotts: the embodiment of sex appeal?
Uncle Stevie vs. Aca-Fan: What CopyBlogger can teach us about Popular Scholarship
The Tudors, Henry Jenkins, and going big: making scholarship accessible to a popular audience.
Read moreHow to Monetize Friends and Influence Distribution: Lessons from Four Days at NATPE
Panic at NATPE 2008 betrayed the conference’s recurring party line of optimism.
Read moreLaunch Texts, Rebound Texts and Commentary Montage: Al Gore’s Appearance at the 2007 Academy Awards
Bernard Timberg, Erick Green, and Hsaio Chu / East Carolina University
A look at how Al Gore’s appearance at the Academy Awards was reprocessed by other texts in the twenty-four hour period after it was aired.
Read moreUrban Fortunes:
Television, Gentrification, and the American City
In addition to presenting viewers with images of urban mayhem, American television now offers a new vision of the city as a bourgeois playground—a bright-lights stage upon which popular fantasies of wealth, power, and distinction can be indulged. Yet, this said, there is still something about this recent celebration of the gentrified city that rankles.
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Musings on HBO’s Tell Me You Love Me
Two of our senior editors take on HBO’s newest dramatic offering, Tell Me You Love Me.
Welcome to the new and improved FlowTV
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Read moreThe Seven Steps to Getting a Job in Television
by: Alan McKee / Queensland University of Technology
You want to work in television, do you? These seven steps might prove useful.
Talent: No Alarms and No Surprises, Please.
by: Gareth Palmer / University of Salford
What is talent now? A starry rope-ladder to the celebrity scaffold? Or a gift? You decide…
Indigeneity for Life: Bro’town and Its Stereotypes
by: Ilana Gershon / Indiana University
The writers of Bro’town insist on a distinction between stereotypes used to reinforce historically and economically grounded inequalities and stereotypes used to indicate differences without consequences.
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by: Juan Piñón and Jean Anne Lauer / FLOW Staff
An introduction to our special trilingual issue on Latin American Media. /
Una introducción a nuestro número especial dedicado a medios en Latinoamérica.