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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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Sarah E.S. Sinwell details how one art house cinema continues to adapt to the pandemic while serving its local community. @sinwelleffect

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Maggie Hennefeld discusses efforts to curate 99 silent films spotlighting early film feminism, and discusses the challenges of navigating the early feminist film archive. @magshenny

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Helen Wheatley discusses the recent proliferation of afterlife-themed television shows and how creators navigate multiple conceptions of "post-death experience." @hmwheatley

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