This Week on Flow (April 29, 2005)
by: Marnie Binfield and Bryan Sebok / FLOW Staff
Welcome to FLOW.
Category: 2.03
Fans of Lesbians on TV: The L Word’s Generations
by: Jill Dolan / University of Texas at Austin
What The L Word gets “right” about lesbian relationships.
The Media and Death: The Case of Terri Schiavo and the Pope
by: Douglas Kellner / UCLA
Why does the “Culture of Life” movement reek of death?
The Problem of Morality in Media Policy
by: Thomas Streeter / University of Vermont
Beyond Janet Jackson’s breast: an investigation of how to rethink the moral discourse of media reform.
Oscar Clips Clips; Audience Insight Dips
by: Mary Beth Haralovich / University of Arizona
The Oscars® telecast missed a chance to educate and inform.
Faith-Based Plot Initiatives
by: Mimi White / Northwestern University
An inquiry into the form and function of divinity in Joan of Arcadia.
Television’s Gated Communities
by: Megan Mullen / University of Wisconsin-Parkside
New strategies in cable television are reinforcing the metaphor of cultural gated communities.
The West Wing–A Hyperreal, Not a Reality Show
by: Trudy L. Hanson / West Texas A&M University
The West Wing just might be more important than politics in real life. Is that necessarily a bad thing?