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Archive for April, 2006

Is It Live or Is It Real?: Live Television's Shrinking Significance in Modern Life

By: Jeffrey Johnson / Michigan State University
Are the excitement and spontaneity of live television really gone or have they just adopted a different form?

Coming Soon: A Supplement to The Velvet Light Trap: An Interview With Student Filmmakers/Teachers

By: Marnie R. Binfield and Jean A. Lauer / The University of Texas at Austin
In the next two issues of Flow, we will be running a special feature: a two-part interview with student filmmakers and screenwriters who also teach filmmaking at the University of Texas. Look for it here in the May 12th issue (Vol. 4 Issue 5) and the May 26th issue (Vol. 4 Issue 6).

How Network Branding, Promotion and Scheduling Determine the Success or Failure of Network Shows

By: Amanda D. Lotz / University of Michigan
How network branding, promotion and scheduling determine the success or failure of network shows.

Simply Propaganda?

By: John Corner / University of Liverpool
The problem with propaganda? The misleading deployment of the term.

The Regeneration of Doctor Who: The Ninth Doctor and the Influence of the Slayer

By: Nichola Dobson / Independent Scholar
A look at the mutual influence of television between US and Britian.

Editorial: Now That We've Found Internet Programming, What Are We Gonna Do With It?

By: David M. Gurney / University of Texas at Austin
A meditation on where viewing habits are migrating at a time when the profile of internet broadcasting is increasing by the day.

The Lure of American Idol Explained: Parasocial Relationships and Emotional Vicarious Living in Live TV

By: Carol Morgan / Wright State University
It may be “mindless” television, but the relationships formed between the home audience and the contestants of American Idol illuminate the current state of the American Dream.

Life on Animal Planet

By: Mark Andrejevic / University of Iowa
Animal Planet documentaries offer a disturbing mirror through which to view the pathologies of our current social reality.

Attend the Flow Conference!

By: Flow Staff
Join one of the roundtables at the upcoming Flow conference!

Where the Boys Are: Postfeminism and the New Single Man

By: Diane Negra / Brown University
In films such as Wedding Crashers and Failure to Launch, the emergent “problem” single man offers an opportunity to think about the nature and function of postfeminist masculinities in current popular culture.

Introducing Television

By: Jonathan Gray / Fordham University
The key to any television program’s themes, characters and stylistic characteristics are often mapped out within the first few moments of every episode, in the introductory sequence.

À la carte Culture

By: John McMurria / DePaul University
What are the cultural repercussions of an à la carte cable? And does anyone in the FCC care?