9.01 – Flow

Quality Television, Melodrama, and Cultural Complexity
Michael Kackman / University of Texas – Austin

October 31, 2008 Michael Kackman / University of Notre Dame 15 comments

Looking to the ways in which Quality TV (and Lost in particular) negotiates the territory between melodrama and elitist aesthetics.

The Bronze Fonz: Public Art/Popular Culture in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Michael Z. Newman / University of Wisonsin-Milwaukee

October 31, 2008 Michael Newman / University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee 7 comments

A look at a Wisconsin’s monument to the Fonz of Happy Days.

Another Green World: Lifestyle Television’s Environmental Turn
Martin Roberts / The New School

October 31, 2008 Martin Roberts / The New School One comment

A consideration of the recent turn to the environmentally-conscious in lifestyle media.

A Specter is Haunting Television Studies
Jeffrey Sconce / Northwestern University

October 31, 2008 Jeffrey Sconce / Northwestern University 12 comments

What do media studies and the current financial crisis have in common?

Viva Viagra! Or, How Race Dances Around Erectile Dysfunction
Priscilla Peña Ovalle / University of Oregon

October 30, 2008 Priscilla Peña Ovalle / University of Oregon 3 comments

A look at how the fabricated white-by-default world of Viagra and its dance/sex equation are racialized.