Category: Volume 13

An exploration into the perceptions of non-humanoid robots in media and the evolution of AI.

King reminisces about his first-hand experience detailing how Burmese audiences react to the U.S. reality television show, Fear Factor.

Tama Leaver investigates the evolution of a podcast movie joke (“Benjamin Sniddlegrass and the Cauldron of Penguins”) into a full-blown cultural phenomenon and DIY film.

This article, the third and final installment in a series, critically examines race in the television networks’ “upfronts,” and consider fears about miscegenation within the context of casting and ratings success. This article continues to interrogate the question of whether or not the television industry reinforces hegemony through the images used to promote these shows.

The final season of Friday Night Lights has concluded on DirecTV but will be resurrected in April, 2011, on NBC. This column is equal parts clear eyes and full heart in delivering the show’s eulogy.

A consideration of how the iPad and other new media products facilitate on-screen reading and change the face of both academic research and leisure time.

An exploration of jet lag as fragmented pulls of disorienting imagery in the work of visual artist Fiona Tan.

This article explores the media narrative and constant scrutiny of the “bromance” between Robbie Williams and Gary Barlow, members of the “boy band” Take That.

In this piece, Amanda Klein explores how Black Swan employs the conventions of art cinema in order to engage the mind, and uses the conventions of horror, melodrama, and pornography to engage the body.

An examination of displaced voices in Drunk History