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: Mary Beltrán, Carolyn E. Brown,  
Charlotte Howell, Ann Johnson, Julia Lesage, Kelli Marshall, Janani  
Subramanian

This issue's columns in brief:

?What?s at stake in claims of ?post-racial? media?? by Mary Beltrán
http://flowtv.org/2010/06/whats-at-stake-in-claims-of-post-racial-media/
An examination of the implications of a "post-race" media climate.

?Can Rational Thought Be Entertaining?? by Ann Johnson
http://flowtv.org/2010/06/can-rational-thought-be-entertaining/
A look at reason-based entertainment in television shows Mythbusters  
and Bullshit.

?The Revolution is Televised? by Julia Lesage
http://flowtv.org/2010/06/the-revolution-is-televised/
Recent Burmese video footage prompts the question: How do we preserve  
and document revolution?

?A Bitter Pill: Nurse Jackie and a Discourse of Discontent? by Janani  
Subramanian
http://flowtv.org/2010/06/a-bitter-pill-nurse-jackie/
An exploration of Showtime's Nurse Jackie as another entrant into the  
growing group of older female protagonists across both network and  
cable programming.

?ABC?s The Middle: Redefining the Working-Class Male? by Kelli Marshall
http://flowtv.org/2010/06/abcs-the-middle-redefining-the-working-class-male/
A consideration of how ABC's The Middle transgresses its working-class  
sitcom roots by re-positioning the blue-collar male.

?The Minutemen in the Media: The Rise and Fall of the Populist  
Movement? by Carolyn E. Brown
http://flowtv.org/2010/06/the-minutemen-in-the-media/
Analysis of the rise and fall of the border-patrolling Minutemen volunteers.

?The Fantastic, Feminist Religion of Wonderfalls? by Charlotte Howell
http://flowtv.org/2010/06/the-fantastic-feminist-religion-of-wonderfalls/
An analysis of Fox's short-lived Wonderfalls and representations of  
feminist religion on television
The Fantastic, Feminist Religion of Wonderfalls

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Flow Editorial Staff

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