Archive for July, 2010
The Harnessed Mob: Where’s the Glee, When Flash Mobs Have Network Sponsors?
Mary Beltran / University of Wisonsin, Madsion
Mary Beltran analyzes the flash mob trend and what it means for Fox’s musical darling, Glee.
Save Our Schools Hawai’i: Tactical Media In the Digital Age
Konrad Ng / University of Hawai’i at Mānoa
A study of the activism of Save Our Schools Hawaii (SOS808) in response to Gov. Lingle’s furloughs during the school year.
I Love Shari: My Queerly Feminist Life with TV
Alexander Doty / Indiana University
A queer look back at the author’s kid and teen TV icons.
Pepot and the Archive: Cinephilia and the Archive Crisis of Philippine Cinema
Bliss Cua Lim / University of California, Irvine
An exploration of the historical and current institutional archival issues for Philippine cinema alongside a native filmmaker’s alternative, artistic preservation of the nation’s cinematic history
Niche Market, Global Scale: Simulcasting Anime Online
Amanda Landa /Flow Staff
A discussion of the recent growth in simulcasting anime content and television distribution across national borders.
“That’s All I Intend to Share Right Now”: Adultery and Privacy in The Good Wife
Suzanne Leonard / Simmons College
Suzanne Leonard deconstructs the notion of the martyred wife in The Good Wife.
Iggy Does Dinah!: Musical Performance On Talk TV
Kyle Barnett / Bellarmine University
Iggy Pop, Dinah Shore, and the “rituals of hospitalities” on daytime talk shows.
Familiarity Breeds Desire: Seriality and the Televisual Title Sequence
Lisa Coulthard / University of British Columbia
Examining the role of opening title sequences as a space of pleasure in image and sound, setting the stage, tone and atmosphere for the ensuing action.
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