How Not to Format (or, What the Global Format Trade Could Teach Tim Gunn)
Tim Gunn’s Guide to Style fails because it adheres too tightly to its own conventions.
Read moreUrban Fortunes:
Television, Gentrification, and the American City
In addition to presenting viewers with images of urban mayhem, American television now offers a new vision of the city as a bourgeois playground—a bright-lights stage upon which popular fantasies of wealth, power, and distinction can be indulged. Yet, this said, there is still something about this recent celebration of the gentrified city that rankles.
Read moreWhite Channels
The most striking change on white supremacist websites involves mediacasts and post links to other media.
Read moreIn Search of Bigfoot:
The Use and Obsolescence of Bionics
NBC’s resurrection of (The) Bionic Woman has prompted me to think through the contemporary relevance of bionics, and map its reintroduction against the popular imaginary of the mid-1970s.
S, M, L, XL: The Question of Scale in Screen Media
Munt examines the fragmentation of the contemporary screenscape – and the screen-anxiety it produces
Is Internet Politics Better Off Than It Was Four Years Ago?
Will YouTube provide a partcipatory space for citizens in the upcoming election?
Overflow:
Musings on HBO’s Tell Me You Love Me
Two of our senior editors take on HBO’s newest dramatic offering, Tell Me You Love Me.
YouTube, Dance and Reform: The Body Caught in the Act
How has YouTube transformed the study of choreography and the way we think about movement?
The Cult of Æon Flux
What happened to the transgressive pleasures of Aeon Flux when it moved from small screen to large?
Getting the Big Picture on Television on the Internet
As television continues its transfer over to the digital and networked existence, the Internet will be playing an essential part of that process. Ensuring fair and equitable access will require understanding the nature of the Internet–which is both decentralizing and centrifugal.
Read moreConvergence as Conflict: the Tasing of Andrew Meyer
by: Ted Gournelos / University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
The recent events at the University of Florida cause us to consider how protest functions within the campus environment.
Read moreTelevision’s Docile Subservience to the Law
by: Hector Amaya / Southwestern University
The abundance of legal and law enforcement programming begs some exploration.
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