Response to the “Taste and Television” Panel
by: Leigh H. Edwards / Florida State University
Cautionary comments about the place of taste in television studies.
Studio 60 and the Limits of Self-Critique
by: Tim Gibson / George Mason University
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip promises a “behind the screens” look into the television industry. Here viewers sit ringside in the battle between art and commerce, as a team of actors, writers, and producers work frantically to broadcast ninety minutes of Saturday-Night-Live-style sketch comedy each week.
Intervention and the Kodak Moment
by: Eric Freedman / Florida Atlantic University
Photographic objecthood, migratory patterns and the familial gaze in A&E’s Intervention
Muslim-Mania and the Liberal Impulse on British TV
by: Sarita Malik / Brunel University
British factual television is widely considered to be the best in the world, yet the coverage of stories foregrounding Muslims has been both sensationalist and simplistic.
More Food for Thought…
by: Janet McCabe and Kim Akass
Vesuvio, Artie Bucco, and Melodramatic Melancholy on The Sopranos.
Editorial: A Netroots Majority
by: Katherine Haenschen / FLOW Staff
Progressive Internet groups are finally changing the political map.
Enemies Within
by: John Corner / University of Liverpool
The limits and possibilities of political critique on Spooks.
The YouTube Community
by: John McMurria / DePaul University
While the idealization of YouTube as a self-organizing, radically democratic community for sharing clip culture certainly helped to buffer what could be considered an act of selling “the community” as property to corporate giant Google, the image of YouTube as a revolutionary alternative to corporate media culture has nevertheless been a powerful one.
How Do I Explain This?
by: Jennifer Warren / Independent Scholar
At Burning Man, everywhere you look, there are art installations and art cars and art bikes and art camps and artful people.
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip: Channeling Howard Beale
by: Chuck Tryon / Fayetteville State University
NBC’s “quality” television offering questions the quality of television. But will it provide further insight into the institution of television?
Segregados: Why it is OK to Ignore Spanish-Speaking Television
by: Hector Amaya / Southwestern University
The segregation of Spanish-speaking entertainment from the rest of mainstream television serves not only as a barrier to Latino integration into American society, but also reinforces the idea that there is something logical and reasonable about segregating Spanish from our English-speaking lives.
Paris Hilton–Anthropologist: The Production of Cross-Cultural Difference in First-Person Adventure Television
by: Adam Fish / UCLA
With emphasis on cultural encounters, first-person, reality-based adventure television shares formal and theoretical similarities with select phases in the history and methodology of ethnography.