A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
Crystal Camargo interrogates the politics of representation of undocumented immigrants and the privileging of moral complexity for ICE agents in Netflix’s docuseries Immigration Nation.
Read moreJudy Mikovitz in Plandemic Misinformation has plagued the public consciousness since the beginning of the written word; however, contemporary fake news has the opportunity to be far more damaging than its historical predecessors. Access to a global information superhighway allows unreliable images, articles, and videos to be shared to millions of people in one instantaneous click. Over the past five […]
Read moreSarah E. S. Sinwell reflects on Sundance 2020’s biggest films and distribution deals, as well the diversity of the directors at the festival.
Read moreIn her contribution to the Flow Special Issue on Loop Media, Toby Lee considers the multiple and repeating uses of looped documentary media in the national September 11 Memorial Museum, examining their their particular sense of timelessness and their relationship to collective historical trauma.
Read moreLaura Minor explores the ambiguity of contemporary documentary forms, examining Andrew Jarecki’s documentary mini-series The Jinx in relation to the television documdrama, analyzing its hybridity, extratextuality, and its presentation of “real life” spoilers.
Read moreCurtis’ cognitive mapping of the issues surrounding Afghanistan, the Middle East and the Western loss of faith in politicians and economic structures is turned into the formal structure of Bitter Lake, resulting in a documentary that provides a selective but convincing overview of an otherwise incoherent situation
Read moreSex, Media, Celebrity: A Queer Culture of Media Production
by: Adam Fish / UCLA
Subcultures become pop cultures and today’s underground emerges as tomorrow’s mainstream.
The Worst Happened
by: Cynthia Fuchs / George Mason University
While remaining largely unnoticed, Discovery Times’ Off to War provides a much needed perspective on the war in Iraq.
“Roswell! Roswell! The People Have a Right to Know!”: The State of Fluff, part 2.
by: Eileen Meehan / Louisiana State University
“Peter Jennings Reporting: UFOs — Seeing Is Believing,” serves as an example of the state of network news reporting.
The Credibility of Reality TV and Its Lineage with other Photographic Arts
by: Mary Beth Haralovich / University of Arizona
Recently, I was asked to comment on the credibility of reality television as compared to the credibility of street photography by artists like Diane Arbus, Robert Frank and Cindy Sherman.
The Power of Nightmares
by: Jim McGuigan / Loughborough University
A recent TV documentary series prompted me to reflect upon the intellectual capacities of television, which are more often than not considered fairly limited.