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Abject Producers
Great points about the different impacts, responses and solidarities between Hollywood and the adult film industry. Echoing Nina, I'm wondering whether the lower visibility of production crew members undermines the entire industry. A similar fate onc ... -
Representations of Authority
Great scene to choose, Steven. In writing my own book on CSI, I appreciated your analysis of the episode, and your book as a whole, as a thoughtful consideration of how the series structures its very epistemology. Authority is granted and challenged in bo ... -
One of the things that's
One of the things that's always drawn me to CSI is its representation of work. I admit to this voyeurism, particularly in the "investigation montages," where the CSIs painstakingly search for or process the evidence, as sexy techno music th ... -
Re: Strike You!
Excellent video and
Excellent video and comments. Like the best of the online media (i.e., not only video) that's come out since the start of the strike, it's as provocative as it is entertaining. Both Avi and Julia raise really important points about both labor re ... -
Re: Strike You!
Excellent point about
Excellent point about vocational rituals, and about new media. I've often wondered when (and probably not if) blogging will be an expected pre-tenure task (a la article publishing). Apparently, it already is in a few fields and departments in the sci ... -
Excellent clip and comments.
Excellent clip and comments. I'm struck as well by how these representations are tucked away in historical dramas throughout that era. Roots, for example, has similar scenes of masculine (and feminine) bonding that recast eighteenth and nineteenth ce ... -
Wow! I'm still picking my
Wow! I'm still picking my jaw up off the floor. I've only ever seen a couple of episodes of CSI Miami, and now I remember why. You hit the nail on the head in terms of formula, to the degree that one could easily conceive of similar videos for e ... -
Great comparison, Allison,
Great comparison, Allison, and a cool video as well. DS9 is still my favorite Trek series, for exactly the reasons you cited. In BG, there is a real sense of Ron Moore effectively responding to the Trek franchise. He and David Eick (as well as a very like ... -
Very interesting clip, and
Very interesting clip, and comments about the fate of soaps (and comics) in this media environment. As you well know, soaps have historically dabbled a bit more in these kinds of experiments than most other TV genres (e.g., Dark Shadows, Passions, and var ... -
I'm still catching up on
I'm still catching up on seasons 5-7, and rewatching the entire run more closely, but my sense is that they've been fairly consistent on these counts throughout, taking in not only the attractions of the Strip, but other Vegas-tied factors (e.g. ...