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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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Let Me Tell You—

March 9, 2007 Craig Jacobsen / Mesa Community College 6 comments

by: Craig Jacobsen / Mesa Community College
What’s new, or at least notable by degree, is the attention being given to the portrayal of storytelling within broadcast network programming.

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Get Lost in a Good Story: Serial Creativity on a Desert Island

September 23, 2005 David Lavery / Brunel University 7 comments

by: David Lavery / Middle Tennessee State University
Can Lost sustain its suspense while retaining the good faith of and credibility with a deeply inquisitive viewership, determined to puzzle out its mysteries?

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I Love Lucy in the Sixties

September 23, 2005 Heather Hendershot / Queens College 4 comments

by: Heather Hendershot / Queens College
How are our televisual memories and self-perceptions challenged when we revisit the shows of our youth?

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An Analog Form in a Digital Box: Sitcoms, Mitcoms, and New Media Pliancy

September 23, 2005 Judd Ethan Ruggill and Ken S. McAllister / University of Arizona 3 comments

by: Judd Ethan Ruggill and Ken S. McAllister / University of Arizona
Everyone Frags Raymond — When Computer Games & TV Forms Collide

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Bring the War Home: Iraq War Stories from Steven Bochco and Cindy Sheehan

September 9, 2005 Aniko Bodroghkozy / University of Virginia Leave a comment

by: Aniko Bodroghkozy / University of Virginia
What Over There and the coverage of Cindy Sheehan can tell us about who has a stake in the current war in Iraq.

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To Have and Have not (You Don’t Know What You’ve Got Till It’s Gone)

September 9, 2005 John Hartley / Queensland University of Technology, Australia 36 comments

by: John Hartley / Queensland University of Technology
The afterlife of Dead Like Me on Australian cable television and the pleasures and perturbances of watching an already-in-the-grave series.

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What is Lost?

September 9, 2005 David Golumbia / University of Virginia 7 comments

by: David Golumbia / University of Virginia
David Golumbia takes the Lost discussion one step further.

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Evaluating TV Smarts in the Public Sphere

May 13, 2005 Allison McCracken / DePaul University 7 comments

by: Allison McCracken / DePaul University
Steven Johnson (Everything Bad is Good for You) writes that television can be a “cognitive workout.” Whose television is he talking about?

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“Roswell! Roswell! The People Have a Right to Know!”: The State of Fluff, part 2.

May 13, 2005 Eileen Meehan / Louisiana State University 7 comments

by: Eileen Meehan / Louisiana State University
“Peter Jennings Reporting: UFOs — Seeing Is Believing,” serves as an example of the state of network news reporting.

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Faith-Based Plot Initiatives

April 25, 2005 Mimi White / Northwestern University 18 comments

by: Mimi White / Northwestern University
An inquiry into the form and function of divinity in Joan of Arcadia.

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Belaboring Reality

March 4, 2005 Heather Hendershot / Queens College 17 comments

by: Heather Hendershot / Queens College CUNY
In season one of The Simple Life, the apparently soulless Nicole Ritchie and Paris Hilton spend a month in rural Arkansas disappointing the Ledings, the humble, hard-working farm family that has agreed to take them in.

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31 May

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That’s a wrap on Volume 28. Shout out to our wonderful contributors and staff this past year. Also, be on the lookout out for our grad student issue that goes live in August!

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30 May

Nicole Erin Morse examines how The Matrix (1999) interrupts and deconstructs the male gaze. @cinefeminism

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