A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
By: L.S. Kim / University of California, Santa Cruz
We’ve seen people trade spaces and trade spouses on television to varying degrees of success, exploitation, and humor. But is it actually possible to trade races? The new program, Black. White., puts this question to the test.
Our Television-Made Parents, or Watching TV with My Mother
by: Mary Desjardins / Dartmouth College
In paying attention to the generation of media audiences who were among the first studied by media researchers we have an opportunity to think about how media address and media consumption has been sustained and changed in the course of a single generation’s life time.
By: Moya Luckett / New York University
The debates over both Big Love and South Park suggest that religion is the most volatile issue in American culture and one that generally proves problematic for fictional representation.
By: Elana Levine / University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Even the bunnies reinforce gender hierarchies: the intellectual and emotional struggle over children’s television.
By: Thomas Aiello / University of Arkansas
What’s in a “colder tasting” or “better tasting” beer? In this article, Aiello takes on advertising at its “best.”
By: Elliot Panek / Flow Staff
Can a recording stand in for a live performance?