A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
Studio 60 and the Limits of Self-Critique
by: Tim Gibson / George Mason University
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip promises a “behind the screens” look into the television industry. Here viewers sit ringside in the battle between art and commerce, as a team of actors, writers, and producers work frantically to broadcast ninety minutes of Saturday-Night-Live-style sketch comedy each week.
Intervention and the Kodak Moment
by: Eric Freedman / Florida Atlantic University
Photographic objecthood, migratory patterns and the familial gaze in A&E’s Intervention
Muslim-Mania and the Liberal Impulse on British TV
by: Sarita Malik / Brunel University
British factual television is widely considered to be the best in the world, yet the coverage of stories foregrounding Muslims has been both sensationalist and simplistic.
More Food for Thought…
by: Janet McCabe and Kim Akass
Vesuvio, Artie Bucco, and Melodramatic Melancholy on The Sopranos.
Editorial: A Netroots Majority
by: Katherine Haenschen / FLOW Staff
Progressive Internet groups are finally changing the political map.
by: John Corner / University of Liverpool
The limits and possibilities of political critique on Spooks.