A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
Adieu to The Sopranos; What Next for HBO?
by: Kim Akass and Janet McCabe
Exploring whether the series finale of The Sopranos will be the nail in the coffin for the company that defines itself as not TV, but rather HBO.
Hutto’s Children: Maddening Structures of Absence
by: Hector Amaya / Southwestern University
YouTube allows unseen detained children the chance to be witnessed, but is anyone watching?
Everything is Under Control
by: Daniel Chamberlain / USC
Celebrations of viewer control display a marked historical shortsightedness, reveal a familiar deployment of gendered discourse, and raise questions about inequality of access
in a rapidly tiering television environment.
The Edwardian Country House: An Exegesis
by: Alan McKee / Queensland University of Technology
In the 2002 British reality series The Edwardian Country House 21 people live just as they would have done in the first decade of the twentieth century. Six of them take the role of the family who own the house, while fifteen take the role of the servants. And they live those Edwardian lives – strictly – for three months.
Dancing in the Distraction Factory: CGI, Captured Feet, and Box Office Magic
by: Anna Beatrice Scott / University of California, Riverside
Dancing is a central component to today’s CGI blockbusters. What happens in the transformation from the physical to the digital? What effects has dance had on animation and animation on dance? And how does dancing in the digital realm shape our perception of reality?
Indigeneity for Life: Bro’town and Its Stereotypes
by: Ilana Gershon / Indiana University
The writers of Bro’town insist on a distinction between stereotypes used to reinforce historically and economically grounded inequalities and stereotypes used to indicate differences without consequences.
by: John Corner / University of Liverpool
What does the Royal Navy’s recent hostage crisis in Iran say about television’s involvement in the conduct of war and conflict?
Sanjaya and the Mulatto Millenium
by: Mary Beltrán / University of Wisconsin-Madison
These days it’s a boon to star hopefuls not only to have an ethnically ambiguous look but to be open about their mixed heritage in their publicity.
Sometimes a kiss is just a kiss: (not) responding to the Richard Gere-Shipla Shetty controversy in India
by: Shanti Kumar / University of Texas-Austin
The Indian majority’s non-response to the Gere-Shetty kiss indicates reinforces the notion that diverse cultures in India have known how to live with each other for centuries
I Lost my Wife to Facebook, and Other Myths that Might be True
by: Michele Byers / Saint Mary’s University
Facebook anyone? Looking to the online community, Facebook, the author considers how nostalgia and irony simultaneously figure into this current trend.
Children Playing in Hollywood
by: Judith Halberstam / University of Southern California
Let’s see how Little Children manages to sneak normativity into the plot as resolution for the problem of the community enforcement of …normativity!
Welcome! ¡Bienvenido! Bem-vindo!
by: Juan Piñón and Jean Anne Lauer / FLOW Staff
An introduction to our special trilingual issue on Latin American Media. /
Una introducción a nuestro número especial dedicado a medios en Latinoamérica.