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“Israeli Idol” Goes to War: The Globalization of Television Studies

August 18, 2006 Sharon Shahaf / University of Texas at Austin 7 comments

by: Sharon Shahaf / University of Texas at Austin
Kohav Nolad, Israel’s version of “Idol,” illustrates the dialectic between local and global trends in TV as the program transforms itself in a time of war.

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“Back Where I Started From”: California in Some Recent Television Series

August 18, 2006 Mary Desjardins / Dartmouth College 3 comments

by: Mary Desjardins / Dartmouth College
A meditation on the continued use of California as a narrative landscape of budding potentialities and stifling eventualities through revived melodramas like The O.C. and Veronica Mars, and reality programs such as The Real Housewives of Orange County and Laguna Beach.

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The New Soaps? Laguna Beach, The Hills, and the Gendered Politics of Reality “Drama”

August 18, 2006 Elana Levine / University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee 5 comments

by: Elana Levine / University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee
How genres collide on MTV’s prime-time.

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Recap Nation: Repetition and the TV Program as Commodity

August 18, 2006 Moya Luckett / New York University Leave a comment

by: Moya Luckett / New York University
The internet has seen an explosion in the number of programs offering recaps of television programs. How are these recaps serving to extend and repeat television’s texts, and what does their popularity say about viewers’ relationship with recaps?

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Sitcom Aesthetics, Intertextuality, and Lucky Louie

August 18, 2006 Walter Metz / Montana State University at Bozeman One comment

by: Walter Metz / Montana State University at Bozeman
At first Lucky Louie seems like a a sex- and expletive-filled version of The Honeymooners, but, after ten episodes, it also appears to be is the most intertextually rich show on television.

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@rahul_mukh explores the infrastructures and services underpinning the shift to mobile streaming in India. Discover more here: https://www.flowjournal.org/2023/11/streaming-indias-neomobile-audiences/

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In the final column of Flow 30.2, Lauren Steimer discusses the unacknowledged dangers of on-set stunt work. Read more here: https://www.flowjournal.org/2023/11/accident-the-true-dangers-of-stunt-work/

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Maggie Rossman's look at audience reception of the film Barbie demonstrates that even simplistic feminist discourse can lead to complicated affective responses. Read the article here: https://www.flowjournal.org/2023/11/becoming-the-barbie-spectator/

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This year (and all years), Flow is thankful for the hard work of our columnists, who share their exciting scholarship with us, and our @UTRTF grad student volunteers, without whom our issues would never be published. Thanks to all who support Flow! Read the latest issue here:

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This issue has everything — OTT infrastructure, sports management, stunt labor, speculative design, and Barbie! Check out the fantastic articles by @Courtney_BD, @rahul_mukh, Branden Buehler, Brianna Dym, Margaret Rossman, and Lauren Steimer here: http://flowjournal.org

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