Thoughts on Dark Camp
Lokeilani Kaimana / FLOW Staff
Lokeilani Kaimana interrogates Christeene’s music video Bustin’ Brown’ as an example of dark camp.
Read moreMonth: August 2011
Thoughts on Dark Camp
Primetime Gametime
Steven Boyer / University of Glasgow
Steven Boyer investigates the failure of Microsoft’s Primetime.
Read moreDoing Double Duty: Toward a Theory of “Compound Otherness” on Television
Alfred L. Martin, Jr. / Flow Co-Managing Editor
Alfred L. Martin, Jr., works toward a theory of compound otherness on television.
Read more“Who Gon Check Me Boo”: Reality TV as a Haven For Black Women’s Affect
Kristen Warner / University of Alabama
Warner’s contribution analyzes the way in which black women engage with texts within shows such as the Real Housewives franchise outside the bounds of whiteness.
Read moreMore than just ‘Lip Service‘?- Stereotypes in lesbian focused drama
Faye Davies / Birmingham City University
A discussion of the representation of butchness and bisexuality in the lesbian TV drama.
Read more“It’s a Very Curious English Thingâ€: Failed Pilots for American Remakes of British Television
Iain Robert Smith / Roehampton University
The failure of American adaptations of British shows such as Spaced, Red Dwarf and The IT Crowd can be attributed to its lack of success in adapting to the new national context.
Read moreThe Children of Chuck Barris: Reality TV in the 1970s
R. Colin Tait / FLOW Staff
A look at how The Gong Show and Battle of the Network Stars influenced a legion of contemporary reality shows, and defined network TV production models.
Read moreStrange Steeples
Paul Gansky / FLOW Co-Managing Editor
Tesla, RKO, Glen Campbell, and a century of art on radio towers and the melancholy of distance, all seared together with a tremendous ZAP! of low-frequency whistlers.
Read moreMining Collective Memory: Fairytales grow up, take their shirts off
Camille DeBose / DePaul University
Between true stories, original screenplays, faithful adaptations, and the spirit of the source text.
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