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Author: Mary Desjardins / Dartmouth College

“Back Where I Started From”: California in Some Recent Television Series

August 18, 2006 Mary Desjardins / Dartmouth College 3 comments

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.

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Leader of the Pack: The Charisma of The Dog Whisperer

May 26, 2006 Mary Desjardins / Dartmouth College 3 comments

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.

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Our Television-Made Parents, or Watching TV with My Mother

March 31, 2006 Mary Desjardins / Dartmouth College 4 comments

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.

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Classifying Dahmer: Protecting Netflix’s Homonormative Canon
Dan Vena / Queen’s University & Sarah Woodstock / University of Toronto

"I’m the Industry Baby”: The Political Economy of Lil Nas X
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27 Jan

New to Over*Flow: Dan Vena and Sarah Woodstock argue that Netflix’s removal of Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story from its LGBTQ TV category discards “unacceptable” queer history and protects the homonormativity of Netflix’s LGBTQ library.
https://www.flowjournal.org/2023/01/overflow-classifying-dahmer/

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21 Jan

Check out this call for papers from our colleagues! 10 days until submissions are due.

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13 Jan

Hey folks! We are officially extending this CFP until Sunday, January 15

Looking forward to reading your submissions!

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