Volume 2 
The Commitments
(7)
by: Daniel Marcus / Goucher College
For better or worse, contemporary TV dramas ask a lot of their audiences.
The Value of Lost, Part Two
by: Jason Mittell / Middlebury College
Building on his last column, Jason Mittell offers up a gripping example of evaluative criticism to support his claim that “Lost is the best show on American broadcast TV.
Television’s Aesthetic of Dead-Ness
by: Dana Polan / New York University
On “Jumping the Shark” and other ways popular culture frustrates and reneges on its promises.
The Televisual Tour de France on OLN: Confessions of a “Cynic”
by: Walter Metz / Montana State University-Bozeman
For Metz, Lance Armstrong winning an unprecedented seven Tours de France is not a matter of national pride.
More in this category:
Separated at Birth?
Teaching Television, or What I’ve Learned From Flow
Bussing the News
The latest in reality TV? Māori Television stakes a claim on the world stage
“C’mon Get Happy!” Partridge Family Values
Colostomy Bags, Masturbation and Naked Chicken Dancing: The Information World According to Avid Merrion
Fluff: “The Final Frontier”
This Issue on Flow (08 July 2005)
Race Fictions: Crash, Do the Right Thing and La Haine
Academic Scandals and the Broadcast Media
Reentry
Report from Ringside: The Contender Live Finale
A Slice of American Life
What is Commercialism?
Little Green Men
Postfeminism Lost and Found: Tracking the “Runaway Bride”
This Issue on Flow (24 June 2005)
Discovering the Art of Television’s Endings
Flowers Powers: Mars or Venus?
TV Down Under
Some Good News about the News: 5 Reasons Why ‘Fake’ News is Better than Fox ‘News’
What Do We Want from TV Studies?
If We Are So Smart….
This issue on Flow (10 June 2005)
Evaluation, Analysis, Reform, and the Peabody Awards
Pass the Remote: Online News
Four Strategies for Media Reform
Why Fiske Still Matters
Embodied
Benny Hill and Reviving British Comedy
Digital: The Dark Side
Legal Fictions
This Issue on Flow (27 May 2005)
Media Studies for the Hell of It?: Second Thoughts on McChesney and Fiske
Pass the Remote: The iGeneration
The Loss of Value (or the Value of Lost)
I Got Plenty of Nothing (and Nothing’s Plenty for Me): Television’s Politics of Abundance
“Can There Be Television Without Star Trek?”
Live Richly, and Prosper
Northeastern India: Satellite TV’s Forgotten Spectator
This Week on Flow (13 May 2005)
Global Television and Multiple Layers of Identity
Pass the Remote: Catch and Release
Evaluating TV Smarts in the Public Sphere
The Seeds of Doom?
“Roswell! Roswell! The People Have a Right to Know!”: The State of Fluff, part 2.
Move over Marshall McLuhan! Live from the Arctic!
Extreme Health Care
New to You?: NBC’s The Office and the Remake of a Cult British Hit TV Series
This Week on Flow (April 29, 2005)
Fans of Lesbians on TV: The L Word’s Generations
The Media and Death: The Case of Terri Schiavo and the Pope
The Problem of Morality in Media Policy
Oscar Clips Clips; Audience Insight Dips
Faith-Based Plot Initiatives
Television’s Gated Communities
The West Wing–A Hyperreal, Not a Reality Show
This Week on Flow (April 15, 2005)
The Copyright Creative Stranglehold
Pass the Remote: Adult Swim
Disappointment and Disgust, or Teaching?
Inside the Beeb
Flotsam
Copps’s Hypothesis: Indecency and Media Ownership
Symbolic Inversion: Git-R-Done!
Meaningful Mysteries – Psychoanalytic Pleasures in Today’s TV
Notes from the Blogosphere
This Week on Flow
Pass the Remote!
Television For Swing States
Hegemony on a Hard Drive
Reinventing Public Media
The Republic of Tyra
Where’s the Beef?
Terrordome
Martha Stewart: Free but Still in Chains?