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Archive for July, 2005

Separated at Birth?

by: Justin Wyatt / ABC Television Network
The charms of The Andy Milonakis Show.

Teaching Television, or What I’ve Learned From Flow

by: Derek Kompare / Southern Methodist University
Rediscovering the excitement of teaching television studies.

Bussing the News

by: Vicki Mayer / Tulane University
A snapshot of how real people discuss the news in an unexpected public forum.

The latest in reality TV? Māori Television stakes a claim on the world stage

by: Faye Ginsburg and April Strickland / NYU
A closer look at Maori Television.

“C’mon Get Happy!” Partridge Family Values

by: Allison McCracken / DePaul University
Why the Partridges are better than the Bradys.

Colostomy Bags, Masturbation and Naked Chicken Dancing: The Information World According to Avid Merrion

by: James Walker / Nottingham Trent University
Examining “celebrity culture” through Bo’ Selecta.

Fluff: “The Final Frontier”

by: Eileen Meehan / Louisiana State University
Part three of Meehan’s series on the state of fluff television: more on Peter Jennings’ report on UFOs and how it fails to satisfy as either news or fluff.

Race Fictions: Crash, Do the Right Thing and La Haine

by: John Downing / Southern Illinios University
The portrayal of modern race relations in Paul Haggis’ Crash is compared to Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing and Matthieu Kassovitz’s La Haine.

Academic Scandals and the Broadcast Media

by: Rhonda Hammer and Douglas Kellner / UCLA
Publish and Perish … the politics of academic scandals.

Reentry

by: Mimi White / Northwestern University
Mimi White explores the differences and similarities between television as an everyday practice in the U.S. and in Finland upon returning from abroad.

Report from Ringside: The Contender Live Finale

by: Mary Beth Haralovich / University of Arizona
A report back from the live Contender finale, which turns out to be a familial arena as much as a fighting one.