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The DVD set for the film Avatar invites viewers to “extend the journey,” exemplary of the elasticity of the film’s boundaries.

Can the enviro-slacker audience of IFC’s Portlandia laugh at themselves?

In the true, unfolding experience of watching cinema, in our actual presence with the image, our sense of being struck depends on our relation to telltale moments.

Marshall explores the homosocial “bromance” of Alan Shore and Denny Crane in “Boston Legal” leading up to the series’ climax.

Coates waxes nostalgic as the punk bands who defined p

An exploration of audience response to satire and the “ridiculous” through a video about a banana.

The disastrous flooding in Queensland, AU, calls into question the way in which television engages with local communities during moments of crisis.

A more critical lens is held up to the concept of “crowdsourcing,” dispelling several myths surrounding the role of the amateur in cultural and commercial production.

An appraisal of AMC’s The Walking Dead and how the show participates in the zombie genre’s shift from B-grade schlock to “Quality TV” and mainstream Hollywood.

This article, the second in an ongoing series, offers a critical examination of race in television networks’ “upfronts,” the photographs distributed to promote new shows. Does the television industry reinforce hegemony through the images used to promote these shows?