Archive for June, 2010
Dudes Come Clean: Negotiating a Space for Men in Household Cleaner Commercials
Caroline Leader / FLOW Staff
Do male protagonists in household cleaner TV commercials reinforce or challenge the dominant ideology of the female as the traditional homemaker?
“Fight for the Futures We Want”: FlashForward, Temporality and Queer Possibilities
Melanie Kohnen / Georgia Institute of Technology
FlashForward breaks with the linearity of straight time to offer moments of unknowability that challenge the script of life, presenting an opportunity to think about multiple ways of interpreting the place of non-straight representations in ideas of the future.
Bend it Like Shuster: Broadcasting Curling’s Accessibility
Daren C. Brabham / University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Daren Brabham investigates the strange appeal of curling to American spectators.
Lost at the Movies
Robert C. Sickels / Whitman College
An exploration of the intertextual references underscoring the narrative of ABC’s Lost.
Pedaling through the Transnational Public Screen
Esteban del Rio / University of San Diego
Cyclists have taken to the Internet to spread their message: the bicycle can stand as part of the solution to a whole range of problems, including climate change, obesity, traffic, pollution, depression, petrol politics, and even oil spills.
The Minutemen in the Media: The Rise and Fall of the Populist Movement
Carolyn Brown / American University
Analysis of the rise and fall of the border-patrolling Minutemen volunteers.
ABC’s The Middle: Redefining the Working-Class Male
Kelli Marshall / University of Toledo
A consideration of how ABC’s The Middle transgresses its working-class sitcom roots by re-positioning the blue-collar male.
A Bitter Pill: Nurse Jackie and a Discourse of Discontent
Janani Subramanian / University of Southern California
An exploration of Showtime’s Nurse Jackie as another entrant into the growing group of older female protagonists across both network and cable programming.
The Revolution is Televised
Julia Lesage / University of Oregon
Recent Burmese video footage prompts the question: How do we preserve and document revolution?
Can Rational Thought Be Entertaining?
Ann Johnson / Cal State University, Long Beach
A look at reason-based entertainment in television shows Mythbusters and Bullshit.
What’s at stake in claims of “post-racial” media?
Mary Beltran / University of Wisconsin – Madison
Mary Beltran examines the implications of a “post-race” media climate.
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