A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A discussion about how Community encourages the audience to remember a shared past as a way to empathize with characters whose dreams aren’t coming true, yet who keep going anyway.
Read moreA consideration of product placement and native advertising.
Read moreDr. Amanda Lotz summarizes some of the current issues as well as the current possibilities of the television industry, as discussed during the third Core Conversation of the 2014 Flow Conference.
Read moreMichael Kackman outlines the conversation between David Milch, Michael Zinberg, Howard Rosenberg and Dr. Horace Newcomb at the second Core Conversation of the 2014 Flow Conference.
Read moreConference Co-Coordinator Charlotte Howell reflects on opening the call for questions for the 2014 Flow Conference and the new kinds of questions which that helped raise in the roundtables.
Read moreDerek Kompare relates his discussion from the Core Conversation focusing on TV preservation, examining past media within the contemporary media landscape along with the whys and hows of its preservation and access.
Read moreAvi Santo, one of the original founders of the Flow journal and Flow Conference, compares this year’s “unconference” with past incarnations.
Read moreThe organizers of the 2014 Flow Conference would like to acknowledge the funding contributions of: UT Austin Radio-Television-Film Department Media Studies Area UT Austin Graduate School’s Fund for Academic Enrichment UT Austin Department of American Studies UT Center for Women’s and Gender Studies University Co-Op Prof. Joe Straubhaar UT Student Government Special thanks to: Additional thanks to: Laura Byerley […]
Read moreAn examination of “white privilege” in the context of prison reform in Orange is the New Black.
Read moreAn examination of Lost as an “enigma serial,” in which the entire series moves towards resolving the central, driving enigma.
Read moreA consideration of the process of public shaming in its application to modern Renaissance men in the American arts.
Read moreContemporarily, Indian Cinema is taking a big leap by making subject-oriented films. But whenever we see community-marked characters in the mainstream films, they are indeed stereotyped.
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