Feeling Blue: Katrina, The South, and The Nation
by: Tara McPherson / University of Southern California
A consideration of regional politics in Katrina coverage.
Tag: Race/Ethnicity
The Los Angeles Misanthrope
by: Walter Metz / Montana State University at Bozeman
Online publication, such as Flow, allows academics the much needed space to contemporaneously intervene into the reception of films and TV programs while they are still attended by the general population. The benefit of these interventions is changing the nature of reception by making it relevant to its time.
Hurricane Spectacles and the Crisis of the Bush Presidency
by: Douglas Kellner / UCLA
(How) will the Bush image weather criticism leveled at his administration in the wake of Hurricane Katrina?
Reality TV
by: Derek Kompare / Southern Methodist University
How Hurricane Katrina can reshift how we define reality TV worth watching.
Where’s the Beef?
by: Daniel Bernardi / Arizona State University
A look at pornography, hate speech, Donna Haraway’s cyborg metaphor, and their relationship to race in America.
Overhaulin’ TV and Government (Thoughts on the Political Campaign to Pimp Your Ride)
by: James Hay / University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign
These days, the expression “overhauling” is in the air (and “on the air.”)
Domestic Reality TV
by: Allison McCracken / DePaul University
I have finally found a reality program that I can watch without cringing with embarrassment for the participants and/or becoming enraged at the producers. Not surprisingly, it’s trailing in the ratings and on the brink of cancellation.
Black Zen Masters in the Dojo of Reality Television
by: L.S.Kim / University of California, Santa Cruz
Typically in reality television, the host is white – famous examples include Jeff Probst in Survivor, Ryan Seacrest in American Idol, and Regis Philbin in Who Wants to be a Millionaire? whose through-the-roof ratings jump-started the reality programming watershed. But in America’s Next Top Model, The Road to Stardom, and Pimp My Ride, the hosts are African American and already stars.
Apology
by: Cynthia Fuchs / George Mason University
Apologizing is an art. And apologizing for TV is something else.
Race and Reality…TV
by: L. S. Kim / University of California, Santa Cruz; UCLA
A prime-time line-up without reality television programming seems a lifetime ago.
10,000 Years of Media Flow
by: Faye Ginsburg / New York University
It’s one of those unseasonably warm Saturdays in November, a beautiful autumn day in New York City that competes with the films being shown in darkened rooms during the annual Margaret Mead Film Festival.