I Love Shari: My Queerly Feminist Life with TV
Alexander Doty / Indiana University
A queer look back at the author’s kid and teen TV icons.
Read morePepot and the Archive: Cinephilia and the Archive Crisis of Philippine Cinema
Bliss Cua Lim / University of California, Irvine
An exploration of the historical and current institutional archival issues for Philippine cinema alongside a native filmmaker’s alternative, artistic preservation of the nation’s cinematic history
Read moreNiche Market, Global Scale: Simulcasting Anime Online
Amanda Landa /Flow Staff
A discussion of the recent growth in simulcasting anime content and television distribution across national borders.
Read more“That’s All I Intend to Share Right Now”: Adultery and Privacy in The Good Wife
Suzanne Leonard / Simmons College
Suzanne Leonard deconstructs the notion of the martyred wife in The Good Wife.
Read moreIggy Does Dinah!: Musical Performance On Talk TV
Kyle Barnett / Bellarmine University
Iggy Pop, Dinah Shore, and the “rituals of hospitalities” on daytime talk shows.
Read moreFamiliarity Breeds Desire: Seriality and the Televisual Title Sequence
Lisa Coulthard / University of British Columbia
Examining the role of opening title sequences as a space of pleasure in image and sound, setting the stage, tone and atmosphere for the ensuing action.
Read moreDudes Come Clean: Negotiating a Space for Men in Household Cleaner Commercials
Caroline Leader / FLOW Staff
Do male protagonists in household cleaner TV commercials reinforce or challenge the dominant ideology of the female as the traditional homemaker?
Read more“Fight for the Futures We Want”: FlashForward, Temporality and Queer Possibilities
Melanie Kohnen / Georgia Institute of Technology
FlashForward breaks with the linearity of straight time to offer moments of unknowability that challenge the script of life, presenting an opportunity to think about multiple ways of interpreting the place of non-straight representations in ideas of the future.
Read moreBend it Like Shuster: Broadcasting Curling’s Accessibility
Daren C. Brabham / University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Daren Brabham investigates the strange appeal of curling to American spectators.
Read moreLost at the Movies
Robert C. Sickels / Whitman College
An exploration of the intertextual references underscoring the narrative of ABC’s Lost.
Read morePedaling through the Transnational Public Screen
Esteban del Rio / University of San Diego
Cyclists have taken to the Internet to spread their message: the bicycle can stand as part of the solution to a whole range of problems, including climate change, obesity, traffic, pollution, depression, petrol politics, and even oil spills.
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