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Archive for October, 2008

<strong>Quality Television, Melodrama, and Cultural Complexity</strong><br /><em> Michael Kackman / University of Texas – Austin </em> 

Quality Television, Melodrama, and Cultural Complexity
 Michael Kackman / University of Texas – Austin  

Looking to the ways in which Quality TV (and Lost in particular) negotiates the territory between melodrama and elitist aesthetics.

<strong>The Bronze Fonz: Public Art/Popular Culture in Milwaukee, Wisconsin </strong><br /><em> Michael Z. Newman / University of Wisonsin-Milwaukee </em>

The Bronze Fonz: Public Art/Popular Culture in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Michael Z. Newman / University of Wisonsin-Milwaukee

A look at a Wisconsin’s monument to the Fonz of Happy Days.

<strong>Another Green World: Lifestyle Television’s Environmental Turn</strong><br /><em> Martin Roberts / The New School</em>

Another Green World: Lifestyle Television’s Environmental Turn
Martin Roberts / The New School

A consideration of the recent turn to the environmentally-conscious in lifestyle media.

<strong>A Specter is Haunting Television Studies</strong><br /><em>Jeffrey Sconce / Northwestern University</em>

A Specter is Haunting Television Studies
Jeffrey Sconce / Northwestern University

What do media studies and the current financial crisis have in common?

<strong>Viva Viagra! Or, How Race Dances Around Erectile Dysfunction </strong><br /><em> Priscilla Peña Ovalle / University of Oregon </em>

Viva Viagra! Or, How Race Dances Around Erectile Dysfunction
Priscilla Peña Ovalle / University of Oregon

A look at how the fabricated white-by-default world of Viagra and its dance/sex equation are racialized.

<strong>Sarah Palin and the Media</strong><br />

Sarah Palin and the Media

Flow Senior Editorial Staff

An introduction to our special issue.

<strong>Tigh/Roslin 2008: When Politics Turn Fictional </strong><br /><em> Emily Regan Wills / The New School for Social Research </em>

Tigh/Roslin 2008: When Politics Turn Fictional
Emily Regan Wills / The New School for Social Research

<strong>Reading Sarah Palin </strong><br /><em> Bernadette Barker-Plummer / University of San Francisco </em>

Reading Sarah Palin
Bernadette Barker-Plummer / University of San Francisco

<strong>Rule 34 and Epic Raids: Sarah Palin as a Victim of Internet Pranksterism </strong><br /><em> Daniel Metz / University of Texas – Austin </em>

Rule 34 and Epic Raids: Sarah Palin as a Victim of Internet Pranksterism
Daniel Metz / University of Texas – Austin

<strong>A Girl and a Gun: Photoshop Fakes Sarah Palin</strong><br /><em>Patrick Kinsman / IUPUI</em>

A Girl and a Gun: Photoshop Fakes Sarah Palin
Patrick Kinsman / IUPUI

<strong>In the Feminine Ideal, We Trust</strong><br /><em>Janet McCabe / Manchester Metropolitan University </em>

In the Feminine Ideal, We Trust
Janet McCabe / Manchester Metropolitan University

<strong>Palin’s State</strong><br /><em>John Streamas / Washington State University </em>

Palin’s State
John Streamas / Washington State University

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