What is Lost?
by: David Golumbia / University of Virginia
David Golumbia takes the Lost discussion one step further.
Tag: Television
Global Television and Multiple Layers of Identity
by: Joseph D. Straubhaar / University of Texas-Austin
How do we relate to increased local, regional, national, and global television flows?
Pass the Remote: Catch and Release
by: Chris Terry, Cate Racek, and Cory Maclauchlin
What’s the appeal of fishing shows?
Evaluating TV Smarts in the Public Sphere
by: Allison McCracken / DePaul University
Steven Johnson (Everything Bad is Good for You) writes that television can be a “cognitive workout.” Whose television is he talking about?
Extreme Health Care
by: Vicki Mayer / Tulane University
What’s behind Extreme Makeover’s contestants? Maybe more than just the desire to have their 5 minutes of fame.
New to You?: NBC’s The Office and the Remake of a Cult British Hit TV Series
by: Richard L. Edwards / St. Mary’s College
Is there a better way for American TV networks to remake British shows?
Fans of Lesbians on TV: The L Word’s Generations
by: Jill Dolan / University of Texas at Austin
What The L Word gets “right” about lesbian relationships.
The Media and Death: The Case of Terri Schiavo and the Pope
by: Douglas Kellner / UCLA
Why does the “Culture of Life” movement reek of death?
Oscar Clips Clips; Audience Insight Dips
by: Mary Beth Haralovich / University of Arizona
The Oscars® telecast missed a chance to educate and inform.
Faith-Based Plot Initiatives
by: Mimi White / Northwestern University
An inquiry into the form and function of divinity in Joan of Arcadia.
Television’s Gated Communities
by: Megan Mullen / University of Wisconsin-Parkside
New strategies in cable television are reinforcing the metaphor of cultural gated communities.
The West Wing–A Hyperreal, Not a Reality Show
by: Trudy L. Hanson / West Texas A&M University
The West Wing just might be more important than politics in real life. Is that necessarily a bad thing?