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An argument for a more thorough understanding of the formal relationship between action spectacle and narrative as a distinctive yet neglected aspect of crime television.

In this essay, Ann Johnson looks at commonly “misunderstood” songs, the ways artists have made their songs amenable to misuse and their attempts to reassert control over such songs.

In this article, Jayson Harsin reconsiders the definition of news in response to the emergence of the rumor bomb and convergence culture.

A critical examination of “upfronts,” the photographs distributed by television studios to promote new shows. Does the television industry promote an agenda through imagery that maintains positions of power, or does it covertly use images to give primacy to a particular group of people?

A look at the visions of blue-collar masculinity provided by reality TV.

The concept of dirt is used as a way to explore significant class taboos in the Discovery Channel series, Dirty Jobs. King’s article examines the politics behind the production of this program.