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Trading Races: Black. White. on the FX Network

March 31, 2006 L.S. Kim / University of California, Santa Cruz 5 comments

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.

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Our Television-Made Parents, or Watching TV with My Mother

March 31, 2006 Mary Desjardins / Dartmouth College 4 comments

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.

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Trapped in the Closet: Television Struggles to Represent Religion

March 31, 2006 Moya Luckett / New York University 5 comments

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.

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Kids, TV, and the Life of the TV Scholar/Parent

March 31, 2006 Elana Levine / University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee 6 comments

By: Elana Levine / University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Even the bunnies reinforce gender hierarchies: the intellectual and emotional struggle over children’s television.

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The Linguistics of Taste

March 31, 2006 Thomas Aiello / University of Arkansas 2 comments

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.”

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Editorial: Using Our Illusions

March 31, 2006 Elliot Panek / Emerson College One comment

By: Elliot Panek / Flow Staff
Can a recording stand in for a live performance?

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Stefania Marghitu explores the intersections between gender, genre, and authorship via Rose Matafeo's Starstruck. @DearStefania

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Cara Dickason examines how corporations sell Smart TVs as domestic surveillance technologies through gendered formulas. @CaraDickason

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Isabel Molina-Guzmán discusses how Bridgerton's escapist narrative produces a nostalgia that simultaneously erases histories of racial conflict, generates pleasure in non-white audiences, and maintains white subjectivity. @LaProfaMolina

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