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<em>Little Mosque on the Prairie</em>: The Life and Times of the CBC

Little Mosque on the Prairie: The Life and Times of the CBC(5)

February 23, 2007

by: Michele Byers / Saint Mary’s University

Little Mosque on the Prairie and a discussion of the success of the the CBC Canadian public broadcaster system.

<p></p><p>Women are from Mars? Part 1

Women are from Mars? Part 1

by: Lynne Joyrich / Brown University
How does–or should–narrative television deal with issues of sexual violence? Lynne Joyrich considers the meaning of rape on Veronica Mars…and in our culture as a whole.

<p></p><p>Towards Freedom: Television, Baudrillard and Symbolic Exchange

Towards Freedom: Television, Baudrillard and Symbolic Exchange

by: Stephen Groening / University of Minnesota
Towards Freedom Television and its complication of the binary “non-communication” vs. “symbolic exchange.”

<p></p><p>Sex, Love, Television – Part 1

Sex, Love, Television – Part 1

by: Judith Halberstam / University of Southern California
What draws American viewers to Desperate Housewives, a show about infidelity, teenage promiscuity, scandal, secrecy, murder and deceit?


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