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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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"Blonde is a Kind of Person": A Cultural History of the Dumb Blonde
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New in Over*Flow: @kellymcoyne examines cultural anxiety and ambivalence around the "dumb blonde" stereotype in "Blonde is a Kind of Person": A Cultural History of the Dumb Blonde. Check it out! https://www.flowjournal.org/2023/03/cultural-history-dumb-blonde/

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Monday, Flow day!! Volume 29.05 is now live on the website. ! Head on over to http://flowjournal.org to read the first installment of work by @bimmbles , @trilliz, @kingisafink, @influencerlabor, and @westemilye!

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New in Over*Flow: @rouselaurenc and @melstanfill present the results of a survey of users of popular fan fiction hosting site http://archiveofourown.org, providing updated statistics on fan fiction readers and writers. https://www.flowjournal.org/2023/02/fan-demographics-on-ao3/

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