Greetings,

We want to let you know that the new issue of Flow: A Critical Forum
on Television and Media Culture is available at http://flowtv.org.

This issue features columns from: Norma Coates, Ann Johnson, Yvonne
Tasker, and Graeme Turner.

This issue's columns in brief:

"We Are All Oldies: The Death of Youth Music" by Norma Coates
http://flowtv.org/2010/10/we-are-all-oldies/
Norma Coates asserts that rock as youth music is dead and heading to
the morgue in this provocative article.

"Misunderstanding Bruce Springsteen, the Dead Kennedys, and Devo" by
Ann Johnson
http://flowtv.org/2010/10/misunderstanding-bruce-springsteen/
Ann Johnson looks at commonly "misunderstood" songs, the ways artists
have made their songs amenable to misuse and their attempts to
reassert control over such songs.

"Action Television/Crime Television: Sensation and Attraction" by
Yvonne Tasker
http://flowtv.org/2010/10/action-television-crime-television/
An argument for a more thorough understanding of the formal
relationship between action spectacle and narrative as a distinctive
yet neglected aspect of crime television.

"'Choice Fatigue,' Community, and the Mutations of Television" by
Graeme Turner
http://flowtv.org/2010/10/choice-fatigue-community-and-the-mutations-of-television/
An Australian scholar relates his experience of "choice fatigue" while
visiting and viewing cable programming in the United States, and
examines whether expanded choice limits the role of television in
communities and nations.

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Best wishes,

Flow Editorial Staff

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