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Author: Dana Polan / New York University

Raymond Williams on Television: Notes Toward Further Research
Dana Polan / New York University

May 21, 2013 Dana Polan / New York University One comment

Dana Polan reflects on Raymond Williams’s “Television: Technology and Cultural Form.”

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Foucault TV

June 16, 2006 Dana Polan / New York University 3 comments

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?”

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Food for Thought

April 14, 2006 Dana Polan / New York University One comment

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.

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Television’s Aesthetic of Dead-Ness

August 5, 2005 Dana Polan / New York University Leave a comment

by: Dana Polan / New York University
On “Jumping the Shark” and other ways popular culture frustrates and reneges on its promises.

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I Got Plenty of Nothing (and Nothing’s Plenty for Me): Television’s Politics of Abundance

May 27, 2005 Dana Polan / New York University 4 comments

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.

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Flow is a critical forum on media and culture published by the Department of Radio-Television-Film at the University of Texas at Austin. Flow’s mission is to provide a space where scholars and the public can discuss media histories, media studies, and the changing landscape of contemporary media.

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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
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Maggie Hennefeld discusses efforts to curate 99 silent films spotlighting early film feminism, and discusses the challenges of navigating the early feminist film archive. @magshenny

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Helen Wheatley discusses the recent proliferation of afterlife-themed television shows and how creators navigate multiple conceptions of "post-death experience." @hmwheatley

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I'm thrilled to share this short piece about @NastySilents just out in the new issue of @FlowTV!! I talk about our approach to curating the messiness of the feminist archive (w/a bit of dishing about a celebrity intro snafu). I hope you enjoy! 🎞️🍽️https://www.flowjournal.org/2022/05/cinemas-first-nasty-women/

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