A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
Report from Ringside: The Contender Live Finale
by: Mary Beth Haralovich / University of Arizona
A report back from the live Contender finale, which turns out to be a familial arena as much as a fighting one.
Oscar Clips Clips; Audience Insight Dips
by: Mary Beth Haralovich / University of Arizona
The Oscars® telecast missed a chance to educate and inform.
The Credibility of Reality TV and Its Lineage with other Photographic Arts
by: Mary Beth Haralovich / University of Arizona
Recently, I was asked to comment on the credibility of reality television as compared to the credibility of street photography by artists like Diane Arbus, Robert Frank and Cindy Sherman.
TV Legal Drama Speaks to U.S. Citizens
by: Mary Beth Haralovich / University of Arizona
In the early 1970s, Dirty Harry famously took on the issue of constitutional rights for US citizens suspected of crimes. Clint Eastwood’s cop movie launched the popular narrative enigma that would influence decades of television legal drama . . .
Casting Shirley Partridge: The Reality TV Audience as Talent Scout
by: Mary Beth Haralovich / University of Arizona
Reality television is developing a new force on the creative side of television production as the TV audience joins television executives in the creation of entertainment programming.
