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 Kiri Miller, Celine Parreņeas
Shimizu, Miranda J. Brady, Ted Friedman, Alexander Cho, Aswin
Punathambekar and Konrad Ng.
This issue's columns in brief:
"Fieldnotes form a Rock Band Bar Night" by Kiri Miller
(http://flowtv.org/?p=4148)
Performance ethnography: a critical look at the collaborative and
social aspects of playing Rock Band.
"On Hypersexual Filipina Video Ho: Demanding Powerful, Painful,
Pleasurable and Political Critique" by Celine Parreņas Shimizu
(http://flowtv.org/?p=4152)
Revisiting the music video for the Black Eyed Peas? ?Bebot? in search
of empowered Filipina subjectivity.
"Museum TV and Hollywood Films: How the Smithsonian Became Big Media?s
'Pile of Loot'" by Miranda J. Brady (http://flowtv.org/?p=4156)
The success of "Night at the Museum 2: Battle of the Smithsonian"
casts new light on a federal investigation of the museum?s secret
contracts with big media outlets, and reveals a potentially troubling
conflict of interest.
"Myth, the Numinous, and Cultural Studies" by Ted Friedman
(http://flowtv.org/?p=4161)
A renewal of interest in the concept of myth in cultural studies,
tracing its journey from academic hot topic through new age buzz word
towards a popular culture understanding of the term.
"Lady Gaga, Balls-Out: Recuperating Queer Performativity" by Alexander
Cho (http://flowtv.org/?p=4169)
Pop icon Lady Gaga can be read as queer for her purposeful, embodied,
performative critique of the artifice of celebrity.
"Television, participatory culture, and politics: the case of Indian
Idol" by Aswin Punathambekar (http://flowtv.org/?p=4182)
The effect of a reality tv contestant on a region of India rife with
ethnic conflict and what it means for participatory television and
political culture.
"A Look Back at Michael Jackson" by Konrad Ng (http://flowtv.org/?p=4188)
An examination of Michael Jackson?s impact on the considerations of
racial diversity, compared with Kip Fulbeck?s contemporary project,
"Part Asian, 100% Hapa."
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Flow Editorial Staff
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