A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
“Back Where I Started From”: California in Some Recent Television Series
by: Mary Desjardins / Dartmouth College
A meditation on the continued use of California as a narrative landscape of budding potentialities and stifling eventualities through revived melodramas like The O.C. and Veronica Mars, and reality programs such as The Real Housewives of Orange County and Laguna Beach.
Leader of the Pack: The Charisma of The Dog Whisperer
by: Mary Desjardins / Dartmouth College
The Dog Whisperer might be telling us just as much about the gendered behavior of humans as it does how to control the behavior of our four-legged companions.
Our Television-Made Parents, or Watching TV with My Mother
by: Mary Desjardins / Dartmouth College
In paying attention to the generation of media audiences who were among the first studied by media researchers we have an opportunity to think about how media address and media consumption has been sustained and changed in the course of a single generation’s life time.
