Raymond Williams on Television: Notes Toward Further Research
Dana Polan / New York University
Dana Polan reflects on Raymond Williams’s “Television: Technology and Cultural Form.”
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Raymond Williams on Television: Notes Toward Further Research
Foucault TV
by: Dana Polan / New York University
What does it mean when a Foucault text shows up in The West Wing finale, besides a “TIVo moment for critical theorists?”
Food for Thought
By: Dana Polan / New York University
The sushi’s on us: How The Sopranos is “assailing the very demographic that makes up its preferred fan base,” via our stomachs.
Television’s Aesthetic of Dead-Ness
by: Dana Polan / New York University
On “Jumping the Shark” and other ways popular culture frustrates and reneges on its promises.
I Got Plenty of Nothing (and Nothing’s Plenty for Me): Television’s Politics of Abundance
by: Dana Polan / New York University
Increasingly, U. S. television reveals itself to have a voracious appetite for material, and there seems to be no limits to its ability to generate new subject matter. There is no visuality or topic so eccentric that television can’t go after them.