A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
Comics to Film (And Halfway Back Again): A DVD Essay
by: Drew Morton / UCLA
By constructing visual essays, cinema and media studies scholars dip their hands into processes they think and write so much about.
YouTube vs. Main Stream Media:
Kissing Cousins or Feuding Siblings?
by: Sonja Baumer / University of California-Berkeley
Why YouTube is highly unlikely to displace other media including the mainstream media.
by: Debbie James Smith / Wayne State University
My Name is Earl, a catfight, and the cultural debate over what is acceptable behavior for lower class mothers.
Pink Slips for Booth Babes?: No Way! Re-train and Re-skill!
by: Nina B. Huntemann / Suffolk University
The enduring question of women and gaming finds one possible answer in the booth babe.
Primetime’s Incompetent Liberalism
by: Shawn Shimpach / University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Primetime’s liberalism is both the problem and solution to its perceived red state/blue state divide.
Temporary Guantanomous Zones: Reality Camps and Crucibles
by: Jack Z. Bratich / Rutgers University
Rather than passively view the proliferation of camps in contemporary reality TV, we can ask how this spatial figure is more than a tool of domination.
The Best 10 Minutes of Television?… Ever?
by: Stephen Harrington / Queensland University of Technology
The Office – What is all the fuss about? What is it that made the show so good in the first place?
Television, Ecotourism, and the Videocamera: Performative Non-Fiction and Auto-Cinematography
by: Adam Fish / UCLA
In two first-person cinematographer ecotourist programs, the difficulties and joys of being a small camera crew are as important as what the cameras record.
Is There a Detective in the House?
by: Chandler Harriss / Alfred University
An examination of the use and usefulness of genre in television studies.
ESPN’s “Full Circle” and Media Convergence
by: Harper Cossar / Georgia State University
As ESPN continues to experiment with its broad-reaching network of media outlets, we can be certain that more unique ways to cover sporting events will follow, and for sports fans, that is a good thing.
Cold Case: Ripped from the Headlines
by: Melissa Jane Hardie / University of Sydney
The proliferation of “ripped from the headline stories” impose the task of harmonising “real” events into more predictable narratives of frustration.
Welcome to Flow, Volume 5
by: Marnie Binfield and Matt Payne / FLOW Coordinating Editors
See what the new volume has in store.