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“Choice Fatigue,” Community and the Mutations of Television
Graeme Turner / University of Queensland

October 29, 2010 Graeme Turner / Queensland University 5 comments

An Australian scholar relates his experience of “choice fatigue” while visiting and viewing cable programming in the United States, and examines whether expanded choice limits the role of television in communities and nations.

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Action Television/Crime Television: Sensation and Attraction
Yvonne Tasker / University of East Anglia

October 29, 2010 Yvonne Tasker / University of East Anglia 3 comments

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.

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Misunderstanding Bruce Springsteen, the Dead Kennedys, and Devo
Ann Johnson / Cal State University, Long Beach

October 29, 2010 Ann Johnson / Cal State University, Long Beach 3 comments

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.

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We Are All Oldies: The Death of Youth Music
Norma Coates / University of Western Ontario

October 29, 2010 Norma Coates / University of Western Ontario 6 comments

Norma Coates asserts that rock as youth music is dead and heading to the morgue in this provocative article.

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