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Kids and Cable: Teaching Regulatory Circumvention
Kit Hughes / Colorado State University

February 3, 2020 Kit Hughes / Colorado State University 2 comments

Kit Hughes explores the cable industry’s dual missions to uphold quality programming for children while pushing for deregulation.

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Strategies of Innovation in ‘High-End’ TV Drama: The Contribution of Cable 
 Trisha Dunleavy / Victoria University of Wellington 

March 6, 2009 Trisha Dunleavy / Victoria University, New Zealand 6 comments

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Brand Loyalty vs. show loyalty, the strange case of Virgin vs. Sky

March 21, 2007 Nichola Dobson / Independent Scholar 2 comments

by: Nichola Dobson / Independent Scholar
Caught in between disputing media cable providers, audiences find alternative ways to circumvent the
media’s economically driven programming strategies.

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“AZN Television: The Network for Asian America”

December 2, 2005 L.S. Kim / University of California, Santa Cruz 25 comments

by: L. S. Kim / University of California, Santa Cruz
It’s a good time to consider the emergence, significance, and implications of television targeted towards Asian Americans.

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Comedy is a Woman in Trouble

November 18, 2005 Heather Hendershot / Queens College 9 comments

by: Heather Hendershot / Queens College
Questioning Comedy Central’s fixation on the male audience.

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When I Grow Up I Want to Be a Boy: Transgeneration‘s Meditation on the “Real”

November 18, 2005 Shana Agid / Sarah Lawrence College 3 comments

by: Shana Agid / Sarah Lawrence College
Thoughts on Transgeneration and TV’s quest to create a viable “normal” transgender person.

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Television’s Gated Communities

April 25, 2005 Megan Mullen / University of Wisconsin-Parkside 19 comments

by: Megan Mullen / University of Wisconsin-Parkside
New strategies in cable television are reinforcing the metaphor of cultural gated communities.

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Over*Flow: “It’s Not Steroids, It’s Testosterone!”: Deconstructing Gender and Sex in Bros (2022)
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20 Sep

New in Over*Flow: @renherold and @cinefeminism examine the deconstruction of cis gay masculinity in the 2022 semi-satirical gay rom-com Bros, reassessing its "bad object" status. Read more here: https://www.flowjournal.org/2023/09/over-flow-gender-sex-bros/

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16 Aug

NOPE is about the eye of the camera, but also Black defiance of it. Read Sophia Abbey's brief but excellent piece at @FlowTV, "Gazing Upwards: Spectacle, Surveillance, and Resistance in Nope." #OpenAccess
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Happy Tuesday, and happy Volume 29.07 release day! The final issue of Flow in the spring features work from @baker_r_r, @Naledgesince82, @caitmckinney, @MichaelSocolow, and Michele White! Read the full issue here: http://flowjournal.org

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TGIF!! Celebrate by reading vol. 29.06-up on the site now. Thx to @jenholt13 @rebeccasholt @kevindriscoll and @TrueIcaRash for their contributions!!

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