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Quality Television, Melodrama, and Cultural Complexity
Â Michael KackmanÂ /Â University of Texas – AustinÂ Â

October 31, 2008 Michael Kackman / University of Notre Dame 15 comments

Looking to the ways in which Quality TV (and Lost in particular) negotiates the territory between melodrama and elitist aesthetics.

The Bronze Fonz: Public Art/Popular Culture in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Michael Z. Newman / University of Wisonsin-Milwaukee

October 31, 2008 Michael Z. Newman / University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 7 comments

A look at a Wisconsin’s monument to the Fonz of Happy Days.

Another Green World: Lifestyle Televisionâ€™s Environmental Turn
Martin Roberts / The New School

October 31, 2008 Martin Roberts / The New School One comment

A consideration of the recent turn to the environmentally-conscious in lifestyle media.

A Specter is Haunting Television Studies
Jeffrey Sconce / Northwestern University

October 31, 2008 Jeffrey Sconce / Northwestern University 12 comments

What do media studies and the current financial crisis have in common?

Viva Viagra! Or, How Race Dances Around Erectile Dysfunction
Priscilla PeÃ±a Ovalle / University of Oregon

October 30, 2008 Priscilla PeÃ±a Ovalle / University of Oregon 3 comments

A look at how the fabricated white-by-default world of Viagra and its dance/sex equation are racialized.

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5 Jan

Benjamin M. Han argues that while one might be inclined to identify specific elements of the film that appeal to the global audience, Kpop Demon Hunters prompts us to examine questions of national identity in terms of its Koreanness.

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30 Dec

In "K-pop Beyond the Trend" Dr. Crystal Anderson explores how K-pop music maintains relevance beyond the cultural moment, unlike the fast trending nature of other popular Korean music genres.

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26 Dec

In "Yet Another KPDH Thought Piece: Socially Conscious and Popular?" Dr. David Oh investigates how Kpop Demon Hunters has managed to maintain its popular status despite the film’s counterhegemonic tendencies.

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23 Dec

Kallia O. Wright analyzes Dr. Bailey’s heart attack in Grey’s Anatomy, revealing how racial and gender stereotypes shape Black women’s medical treatment and self-advocacy within biased healthcare systems.

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