Archive for August, 2007
Durham County: “HBO can eat its heart out”
by: Michele Byers / Saint Mary’s University
Durham County (2007) is a hybrid creature–exportable Canadian drama stripped of all national and cultural
markers and defying generic conventions. The six-episode series about a cop and a serial killer competes with the US specialty cable market and is grabbing both audience approval and critical acclaim.
The Seven Steps to Getting a Job in Television
by: Alan McKee / Queensland University of Technology
You want to work in television, do you? These seven steps might prove useful.
Punk-Rock Presidency: The State of Presidential Satire on Television
by: Jeffrey P. Jones / Old Dominion University
Presidential caricature on television has come a long way from the days of presidential impersonators on late-night talk shows or sketch comedy send-ups on Saturday Night Live. The bookending of the Bush presidency by Comedy Central’s That’s My Bush! and
Lil’ Bush announces a bold new era in the satirization
of a sitting president.
Flow Poll #4: Emmy Nominations — Part II
by: Flow Staff
Vote for your favorite comedic and dramatic actors and actresses in Part Two of our Emmy Nominations Poll.
Pixarvolt – Animation and Revolt
by: Judith Halberstam / University of Southern California
In contemporary animated feature films for kids, a genre I call “pixarvolt,” certain topics which would never ever appear in adult films are central to the success and emotional impact of the narrative.
Talent: No Alarms and No Surprises, Please.
by: Gareth Palmer / University of Salford
What is talent now? A starry rope-ladder to the celebrity scaffold? Or a gift? You decide…
Dish Towns USA (or Rural Screens)–Part 2
by: Joan Hawkins / Indiana University, Bloomington
People work long hard hours in multiple jobs to make ends meet, and they frequently have little money left over for the kinds of services that many of us consider essential—services like communication.
Getting to know you: reasons why when Kevin Martin speaks, people should listen
by: Raymond Cha / Independent Scholar
Typically, stories covering telecommunications’ complex economic and regulatory issues are fifth-page Business or Technology section news items, if they get mentioned at all. However, when Google weighs in on an issue, the news media perks up.
Flow Poll #3: Emmy Nominations — Part I
by: Flow Staff
If you were in the other Academy, who would you vote for?
Why Political Journalists Should Get Into Top Gear
by: Stephen Harrington / Queensland University of Technology
How the rise of car culture in Australia suggests ways to increase political literacy.
Notes from Economy Class
by: Eric Freedman / Florida Atlantic University
The airline seat is an often-overlooked signpost of convergence — a site of convergent media, convergent functionalities, convergent spaces, and convergent
subjects.
Inland Empire: The Cinema in Trouble?
by: Alex Munt / Macquarie University
Can the death and destruction–of the feature, of celluloid, and cinema-going–be a good thing?
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