A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
Why Do I Love Television So Very Much?
by: Alan McKee / Queensland University of Technology
Why is television my favourite medium, moreso than cinema, radio, even than books? Why does art make me so angry, television so joyful?
The Crying Game: Why Television Brings Us to Tears
by: David Lavery / Brunel University
On media and the observation that we still have no valid, philosophically sophisticated theory of why we laugh and cry.
Prime Time Bullies
by: Gareth Palmer / University of Salford
In programmes ranging from Extreme Makeover to Ten Years Younger our flexible selves are seen to be empowered by experts striving to bring forth ‘the real you.’
Let Me Tell You—
by: Craig Jacobsen / Mesa Community College
What’s new, or at least notable by degree, is the attention being given to the portrayal of storytelling within broadcast network programming.
Network Television’s Ongoing Struggle with Web-based Television
by: Ray Cha / Independent Scholar
Peers accepted, provide online channels for established media.
Women are from Mars? Part 2
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.
by: Judith Halberstam / University of Southern California
At a time when Hollywood has very little use for women of a certain age, perhaps television is where women over 40 can go to find roles beyond the bitter mother-in-law, the predatory divorcee or the lonely spinster.
YouTube vs. Main Stream Media:
Kissing Cousins or Feuding Siblings?
by: Sonja Baumer / University of California-Berkeley
Why YouTube is highly unlikely to displace other media including the mainstream media.
by: Debbie James Smith / Wayne State University
My Name is Earl, a catfight, and the cultural debate over what is acceptable behavior for lower class mothers.