A journal of television and new media

Volume 1 rss

<p></p><p>Everything Will Flow

Everything Will Flow(18)

March 18, 2005

by: Will Brooker / Richmond University
In an article from 2000, seeking a word to describe the cross-platform convergence of early 21st century popular culture…I fixed on “overflow” as an update of Raymond Williams’ 1974 coinage, “flow.”

Boy Soaps: Liberalism Without Women

by: Allison McCracken / DePaul University
What’s old is new again on television, as prime-time boy soap operas like Everwood, Jack and Bobby, Life As We Know It, Summerland, The Mountain, One Tree Hill, Smallville and The OC have come to replace girl-centered teen dramas like My So-Called Life, Popular, and Buffy.

The Indianization of Indian Television

by: John Sinclair / University of Melbourne
It is now almost a decade and a half since international satellite services were first seen via cable to the home in India, inaugurating an era of the profusion of private channels in a society that had previously only known a government-controlled national broadcasting network, Doordarshan.

Hey, Klaatu! Call Peter!: The State of Fluff, part 1

by: Eileen R. Meehan / Louisiana State University
When Frank Rich nails media wastrels, they stay nailed.


More in this category:

Monthly Archives
Recent Comments
Helpful Tools