Archive for October, 2007
The Good, The Bad, and the Best
A&E’s reality series Dog: The Bounty Hunter presents intersections of crime, religious faith, and branding.
A Tale of Two Slackers
The slacker heroes of Chuck and Psych may have more in common than would first appear.
‘Screenifying’ Choreography: The New Parameters of Social Interaction as Envisioned by Bill T Jones’ Blind Date
The screen’s ubiquitous presence in the modern world has transformed our lives from how we interact to the way we move. In this transformation have we all become sitting ducks?
Sports Commentary and the Problem of Television Knowledge
Given the ubiquity of sports commentary on television, there must be some perceived purpose behind it. But what might that purpose be?
Guy-Coms and the Hegemony of Juvenile Masculinity
“Guy-Coms” are making juvenile mascuinity hegemonic in U.S. culture.
Youth, representation, and the contemporary history of Canadian TV
Canadian (over)production of teen TV says something about the role Canada plays in the global TV market, teaching us about the space where technological innovation and the production of national cultures and voices intersect.
Institutions That Fail, Narratives That Succeed:
Television’s Community Realism Versus Cinema’s Neo-Liberal Hope
Why The Wire and Friday Night Lights are so fundamentally different from Freedom Writers and We Are Marshall–and why that matters.
“A-loan A-gain:”
In the Shadows of Lifestyle Television
An look at daytime loan commercials reveals that the home we are encouraged to love and cherish more than ever has shaky foundations.
How Not to Format (or, What the Global Format Trade Could Teach Tim Gunn)
Tim Gunn’s Guide to Style fails because it adheres too tightly to its own conventions.
Urban Fortunes:
Television, Gentrification, and the American City
In addition to presenting viewers with images of urban mayhem, American television now offers a new vision of the city as a bourgeois playground—a bright-lights stage upon which popular fantasies of wealth, power, and distinction can be indulged. Yet, this said, there is still something about this recent celebration of the gentrified city that rankles.
White Channels
The most striking change on white supremacist websites involves mediacasts and post links to other media.
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