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: Harper Cossar, Hannah Hamad, Tama
Leaver, Julia Lesage, Konrad Ng, Robert Sickels, and Janani Subramanian.

This issue's columns in brief:
"Dan Patrick's Backstage Musical: Watching Production in the Age of
Media Convergence" by Harper Cossar
http://flowtv.org/2010/12/dan-patricks-backstage-musical/
An examination of the way media convergence is shaping contemporary
sports television.

"A 'Whoniverse' of Runaway Brides" by Hannah Hamad
http://flowtv.org/2010/12/a-whoniverse-of-runaway-brides/
Hamad examines the "runaway bride" trope and its dialectical
relationship to femininity as depicted in the UK telefantasy series
Doctor Who.

"The Anti-Social Network" by Tama Leaver
http://flowtv.org/2010/12/the-anti-social-network/
Leaver investigates how David Fincher's The Social Network reflects
the nature and sociability of social network users as well as the
communication tool's complex creators.

"Bottlenecks and Flows: Media Scholars Consuming Electronic and
Televisual Media" by Julia Lesage
http://flowtv.org/2010/12/bottlenecks-and-flows/
A call to media scholars to begin open and productive conversation
about how media are consumed, streamlined, archived, and pedagogically
utilized.

"'Asian Enough': Race, Nation and Misrepresentation" by Konrad Ng
http://flowtv.org/2010/12/asian-enough/
An exploration of Asian American and Canadian representations in
popular discourse and Justin Lin's Better Luck Tomorrow.

"Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle: Glee and Pastiche" by Robert Sickels
http://flowtv.org/2010/12/reduce-reuse-and-recycle/
The once-breathlessly pleasurable practice of inserting sly
intertextual references may be reaching the point of oversaturation as
evidenced by the current season of Fox's Glee.

"Fairly Normal Activity: Horror and the Static Camera" by Janani Subramanian
http://flowtv.org/2010/12/fairly-normal-activity/
When "nothing is happening" in Paranormal Activity 1 and 2, the empty
room scenes as captured by static cameras in the franchise become
suspenseful moments of audience reflexivity.

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Flow Editorial Staff

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