Indian Idol and Flash Fandom fandom reality TV international TV formats American Idol Indian Idol regionalism India Amit Paul flash fandom Curator's Note In summer 2007, media coverage of Indian Idol-3 focused on how finalist Amit Paul managed to cre ...
Primetime Portrait: The Depiction of Asperger’s on "Parenthood" representations of disability network television autism Asperger's Curator's Note Parents of children who have forms of autism praise Parenthood’s depiction of a family wi ...
From Bartlet to Knope: Politics and instructional television The West Wing Politics as Entertainment Leslie Knope Jed Bartlet instructional TV Curator's Note The West Wing seems to be a unique example in recent American television. Despite its long t ...
Commoditized Visibility: Coca-Cola, The World Cup, and the People politics of visibility Fùtbol! Reflections on the World Cup Coca-Cola branding Curator's Note A man rides in a small boat over the calm waters of the Amazon at dawn; a young woman in h ...
Love's Paradox Western Once Upon a Time in the West Nancy love Hate Curator's Note For Jean-Luc Nancy, love’s meaning is to be found entirely in the act of its utterance. To define the term further, to elucidate the qualities that one loves or d ...
The Winning Side?: Agent Harris and the FBI on HBO’s The Sopranos narrative ambiguity The Sopranos. HBO Paul Levinson closure Curator's Note While the “closure junkies,” as Paul Levinson recently called them on his Infinite Regress blog, continue to ...