Three Evasions of the Future of Television
Jason Mittell / Middlebury College
Mittell thinks through the multiple pasts and futures of television.
Read moreA Critical Forum on Media and Culture
Mittell thinks through the multiple pasts and futures of television.
Read moreThe Best of Television: The Inaugural Flow Critics’ Poll
by: Jason Mittell / Middlebury College
And the winner is…
Lost in an Alternate Reality
by: Jason Mittell / Middlebury College
What can the online game “The Lost Experience” teach us about cross-media storytelling and expectations? Is this the future of television?
TiVoing Childhood
by: Jason Mittell / Middlebury College
What is television to a child who only knows TiVo?
An Arresting Development
by: Jason Mittell / Middlebury College
What can the cancellation of Arrested Development tell us about the present and future state of the television industry?
Exchanges of Value
by: Jason Mittell / Middlebury College
In today’s digital media environment, what’s an episode of Veronica Mars really worth?
The Value of Lost, Part Two
by: Jason Mittell / Middlebury College
Building on his last column, Jason Mittell offers up a gripping example of evaluative criticism to support his claim that “Lost is the best show on American broadcast TV.
The Loss of Value (or the Value of Lost)
by: Jason Mittell / Middlebury College
I wish to make a claim that may be the most controversial position as yet argued in Flow‘s brief but vibrant first year: Lost is the best show on American broadcast television.