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“Back Where I Started From”: California in Some Recent Television Series
The O.C. “The dust of gold is in the air.” Carey McWilliams, California: The Great Exception (1949) Marissa Cooper (Mischa Barton): “Who are you?”Ryan Atwood (Benjamin Mackenzie): “Whoever you want me...
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“Israeli Idol” Goes to War: The Globalization of Television Studies
IN ADDITION TO OUR REGULAR COLUMNISTS AND GUEST COLUMNS, FLOW IS ALSO COMMITTED TO PUBLISHING TIMELY FEATURE COLUMNS, SUCH AS THE ONE BELOW. THE EDITORS OF FLOW REGULARLY ACCEPT SUBMISSIONS FOR THIS...
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Hate, Dislike, Disgust, Distemper, and Distaste
Killing the TV One day at University of California, Berkeley, as I rushed into a 250-student lecture class, I was hailed by a student in the front row. Normally, I liked to wait until after the class...
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24: Jumping the Shark Every Minute
The following is a somewhat revised version of the afterword to Reading 24: TV Against the Clock, edited by Steven Peacock (forthcoming from I. B. Tauris).1 Kiefer Sutherland on the cover of Rolling...
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lonelygirl15: The Pleasures and Perils of Participation
lonelygirl15 Video Blog on You Tube IN ADDITION TO OUR REGULAR COLUMNISTS AND GUEST COLUMNS, FLOW IS ALSO COMMITTED TO PUBLISHING TIMELY FEATURE COLUMNS, SUCH AS THE ONE BELOW. THE EDITORS OF FLOW...
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Rethinking Meaning Making: Watching Serial TV on DVD
The Sopranos DVD Boxed sets Much has changed about how we can watch TV in the past twelve months. It has not even been a year since ABC first allowed us to download new programs in exchange for a...
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Television and the Practice of “Criticism”
TV Criticism Cartoon The idea of “criticism” as a practice of analysis and of knowledge in the arts has long been a matter of dispute. What is the function of criticism? What kind of connections...
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Reality TV Is Undemocratic
Reality Surveillance Cartoon The adjective, “democratic,” like its somewhat more dramatic modern ancestor, “revolutionary,” is rapidly becoming one of the more overused and under-defined terms in the...
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Wasn’t That Show Cancelled? – The Increasing DVD Phenomenon
Invasion DVD Set As the new fall season begins (and we in Britain wait patiently for an extra couple of months before the shows arrive), there is a great deal of chatter about what the hot new shows...
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The Best of Television: The Inaugural Flow Critics’ Poll
The Colbert Report on Comedy Central Welcome to the first (perhaps annual) Flow Critics’ Poll. Polls of critical evaluations have a long tradition in nearly every medium, with annual rankings of film,...
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