2.08 – Flow

This Issue on Flow (08 July 2005)

July 8, 2005 Matthew Thomas Payne / FLOW Staff One comment

by: Matthew Payne / FLOW Staff
Welcome to Issue 8.

Race Fictions: Crash, Do the Right Thing and La Haine

July 8, 2005 John Downing / Southern Illinios University 5 comments

by: John Downing / Southern Illinios University
The portrayal of modern race relations in Paul Haggis’ Crash is compared to Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing and Matthieu Kassovitz’s La Haine.

Academic Scandals and the Broadcast Media

July 8, 2005 Rhonda Hammer and Douglas Kellner / UCLA 2 comments

by: Rhonda Hammer and Douglas Kellner / UCLA
Publish and Perish … the politics of academic scandals.

Reentry

July 8, 2005 Mimi White / Northwestern University 5 comments

by: Mimi White / Northwestern University
Mimi White explores the differences and similarities between television as an everyday practice in the U.S. and in Finland upon returning from abroad.

Report from Ringside: The Contender Live Finale

July 8, 2005 Mary Beth Haralovich / University of Arizona 2 comments

by: Mary Beth Haralovich / University of Arizona
A report back from the live Contender finale, which turns out to be a familial arena as much as a fighting one.

A Slice of American Life

July 8, 2005 Megan Mullen / University of Wisconsin-Parkside 2 comments

by: Megan Mullen / University of Wisconsin-Parkside
Megan Mullen unwraps the ideological twist underneath the nostalgic programming strategies and family oriented programs delivered by AmericanLife TV.

What is Commercialism?

July 8, 2005 Thomas Streeter / University of Vermont 5 comments

by: Thomas Streeter / University of Vermont
What is exactly wrong with for-profit television industries? Thomas Streeter refocuses the conversation over the dangers of commercialism.