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Quality Television, Melodrama, and Cultural Complexity
 Michael Kackman / University of Texas – Austin  

October 31, 2008 Michael Kackman / University of Notre Dame 15 comments

Looking to the ways in which Quality TV (and Lost in particular) negotiates the territory between melodrama and elitist aesthetics.

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The Bronze Fonz: Public Art/Popular Culture in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Michael Z. Newman / University of Wisonsin-Milwaukee

October 31, 2008 Michael Newman / University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee 7 comments

A look at a Wisconsin’s monument to the Fonz of Happy Days.

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Another Green World: Lifestyle Television’s Environmental Turn
Martin Roberts / The New School

October 31, 2008 Martin Roberts / The New School One comment

A consideration of the recent turn to the environmentally-conscious in lifestyle media.

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A Specter is Haunting Television Studies
Jeffrey Sconce / Northwestern University

October 31, 2008 Jeffrey Sconce / Northwestern University 12 comments

What do media studies and the current financial crisis have in common?

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Viva Viagra! Or, How Race Dances Around Erectile Dysfunction
Priscilla Peña Ovalle / University of Oregon

October 30, 2008 Priscilla Peña Ovalle / University of Oregon 3 comments

A look at how the fabricated white-by-default world of Viagra and its dance/sex equation are racialized.

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Over*Flow: “'It's Not Dark Humor If It's Not Your Trauma - You're Just Bad People': The Exploitive Nature of TikTok Meme Cultures
Moa Eriksson Krutrök / Umeå University, Sweden

Over*Flow: The Costs of Hope in The Chair and The Bold Type
Kelly Coyne / Northwestern University

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Nina Linhales Barker discusses the complications of Latina fans wanting to see themselves represented in Netflix's Bridgerton. @ninabaeker

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Our summer issue featuring work from some of our graduate student staff is LIVE! Head over to http://flowjournal.org to read work from @ninabaeker, Tara Coughlin, @GarnerSidney, @kthoov, @itsnottvitspete, Emily McTiernan, @silverstephany, and Hannah Wold!

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Happy 100 yrs+1 day @TheNormanLear! @EmersonCollege's esteemed alum also made #Maude which I wrote @ @FlowTV & which couldn't be timelier https://www.flowjournal.org/2021/11/maude-and-me/ On My 100th Birthday, Reflections on Archie Bunker and Donald Trump https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/27/opinion/archie-bunker-donald-trump-norman-lear.html?smid=tw-share @nytopinion @Emerson_ORCS

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