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Youth, representation, and the contemporary history of Canadian TV(0)
Canadian (over)production of teen TV says something about the role Canada plays in the global TV market, teaching us about the space where technological innovation and the production of national cultures and voices intersect.
Institutions That Fail, Narratives That Succeed:
Television’s Community Realism Versus Cinema’s Neo-Liberal Hope
Why The Wire and Friday Night Lights are so fundamentally different from Freedom Writers and We Are Marshall–and why that matters.
“A-loan A-gain:”
In the Shadows of Lifestyle Television
An look at daytime loan commercials reveals that the home we are encouraged to love and cherish more than ever has shaky foundations.
Urban Fortunes:
Television, Gentrification, and the American City
In addition to presenting viewers with images of urban mayhem, American television now offers a new vision of the city as a bourgeois playground—a bright-lights stage upon which popular fantasies of wealth, power, and distinction can be indulged. Yet, this said, there is still something about this recent celebration of the gentrified city that rankles.