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“Israeli Idol” Goes to War: The Globalization of Television Studies

August 18, 2006 Sharon Shahaf / University of Texas at Austin 8 comments

by: Sharon Shahaf / University of Texas at Austin
Kohav Nolad, Israel’s version of “Idol,” illustrates the dialectic between local and global trends in TV as the program transforms itself in a time of war.

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“Back Where I Started From”: California in Some Recent Television Series

August 18, 2006 Mary Desjardins / Dartmouth College 3 comments

by: Mary Desjardins / Dartmouth College
A meditation on the continued use of California as a narrative landscape of budding potentialities and stifling eventualities through revived melodramas like The O.C. and Veronica Mars, and reality programs such as The Real Housewives of Orange County and Laguna Beach.

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The New Soaps? Laguna Beach, The Hills, and the Gendered Politics of Reality “Drama”

August 18, 2006 Elana Levine / University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee 5 comments

by: Elana Levine / University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee
How genres collide on MTV’s prime-time.

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Recap Nation: Repetition and the TV Program as Commodity

August 18, 2006 Moya Luckett / New York University Leave a comment

by: Moya Luckett / New York University
The internet has seen an explosion in the number of programs offering recaps of television programs. How are these recaps serving to extend and repeat television’s texts, and what does their popularity say about viewers’ relationship with recaps?

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Sitcom Aesthetics, Intertextuality, and Lucky Louie

August 18, 2006 Walter Metz / Montana State University at Bozeman One comment

by: Walter Metz / Montana State University at Bozeman
At first Lucky Louie seems like a a sex- and expletive-filled version of The Honeymooners, but, after ten episodes, it also appears to be is the most intertextually rich show on television.

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Classifying Dahmer: Protecting Netflix’s Homonormative Canon
Dan Vena / Queen’s University & Sarah Woodstock / University of Toronto

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27 Jan

New to Over*Flow: Dan Vena and Sarah Woodstock argue that Netflix’s removal of Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story from its LGBTQ TV category discards “unacceptable” queer history and protects the homonormativity of Netflix’s LGBTQ library.
https://www.flowjournal.org/2023/01/overflow-classifying-dahmer/

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21 Jan

Check out this call for papers from our colleagues! 10 days until submissions are due.

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13 Jan

Hey folks! We are officially extending this CFP until Sunday, January 15

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