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, Bridget Conor, Ann
Johnson, Kelli Marshall, Yvonne Tasker, and Graeme Turner

This issue's columns in brief:

"1979 is 2011: Post-Punk on the Road Again" by Norma Coates
http://flowtv.org/2011/01/1979-is-2011/
Coates waxes nostalgic as the punk bands who are returning to the
touring circuit and exploiting the digital environment.

"Problems in 'Wellywood': Rethinking the politics of transnational
cultural labor" by Bridget Conor
http://flowtv.org/2011/01/problems-in-wellywood/
Conor examines the politics of transnational cultural labor in last
fall's Hobbit dispute.

"Let's All Read this Text" by Ann Johnson
http://flowtv.org/2011/01/lets-all-read-this-text/
An exploration of audience response to satire and the "ridiculous"
through a video about a banana.

"Bromance and the Boys of Boston Legal" by Kelli Marshall
http://flowtv.org/2011/01/bromance-and-boston-legal/
Marshall explores the homosocial "bromance" of Alan Shore and Denny
Crane in "Boston Legal" leading up to the series' climax

"Haunting Crime: the Gothic, the Grotesque and the Paranormal" by
Yvonne Tasker
http://flowtv.org/2011/01/haunting-crime/
Tasker examines the linkage between the stylized traditions of the
Gothic and the crime genre.

"Disaster Zones and the Performance of Television" by Graeme Turner
http://flowtv.org/2011/01/disaster-zones-and-performance-of-tv/
The disastrous flooding in Queensland, AU, calls into question the way
in which television engages with local communities during moments of
crisis.

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Best wishes,

Flow Editorial Staff

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