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Little Mosque on the Prairie: The Life and Times of the CBC

February 23, 2007 Michele Byers / Saint Mary's University 5 comments

by: Michele Byers / Saint Mary’s University
Little Mosque on the Prairie and a discussion of the success of the the CBC Canadian public broadcaster system.

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Women are from Mars? Part 1

February 23, 2007 Lynne Joyrich / Brown University 5 comments

by: Lynne Joyrich / Brown University
How does–or should–narrative television deal with issues of sexual violence? Lynne Joyrich considers the meaning of rape on Veronica Mars…and in our culture as a whole.

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Towards Freedom: Television, Baudrillard and Symbolic Exchange

February 23, 2007 Stephen Groening / University of Minnesota 3 comments

by: Stephen Groening / University of Minnesota
Towards Freedom Television and its complication of the binary “non-communication” vs. “symbolic exchange.”

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Sex, Love, Television – Part 1

February 23, 2007 Judith Halberstam / University of Southern California 16 comments

by: Judith Halberstam / University of Southern California
What draws American viewers to Desperate Housewives, a show about infidelity, teenage promiscuity, scandal, secrecy, murder and deceit?

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Sometimes a Woman just Wants to Be on Top — Desperate Housewives and a “Woman’s Place”
Jacqueline Vickery / Flow Staff

February 23, 2007 Jacqueline Vickery / University of North Texas 5 comments

by: Jacqueline Vickery / FLOW Staff
Lynette’s role complicates contradictory cultural assumptions about both feminism and masculinity.

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Could You Feel Like They Feel?: Music Games, Listening and Fantasies of Identification
Tim Anderson / Denison University

February 23, 2007 Tim Anderson / Denison University One comment

by: Tim Anderson / Denison University
The euphoria of being the rock star and the music.

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How Would Fresh Prince Do It? Teaching “Diversity” to Late ’80s Babies

February 23, 2007 Mary Beltran / University of Texas - Austin 8 comments

by: Mary Beltran / University of Wisconsin-Madison

How does one teach “diversity” without essentializing race and representation?

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Mourning Anna Nicole: Death in the Age of Celebrity Culture

February 23, 2007 Moya Luckett / New York University 5 comments

by: Moya Luckett / New York University
News coverage of Ms. Smith’s recent passing illustrates unsettling trends in contemporary media.

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Race, Gender and Class in Reality TV: The Case of Celebrity Big Brother 2007 in the U.K.

February 23, 2007 Shanti Kumar / University of Texas 6 comments

by: Shanti Kumar / University of Texas at Austin
Kumar discusses representations of race and television using the example of the now infamous racial row on the UK program Big Brother.

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Classifying Dahmer: Protecting Netflix’s Homonormative Canon
Dan Vena / Queen’s University & Sarah Woodstock / University of Toronto

"I’m the Industry Baby”: The Political Economy of Lil Nas X
Wendy Peters / Nipissing University

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27 Jan

New to Over*Flow: Dan Vena and Sarah Woodstock argue that Netflix’s removal of Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story from its LGBTQ TV category discards “unacceptable” queer history and protects the homonormativity of Netflix’s LGBTQ library.
https://www.flowjournal.org/2023/01/overflow-classifying-dahmer/

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21 Jan

Check out this call for papers from our colleagues! 10 days until submissions are due.

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13 Jan

Hey folks! We are officially extending this CFP until Sunday, January 15

Looking forward to reading your submissions!

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