Archive for the ‘Genre’ Category
Earlier today, I debuted my newest video essay at the Society for Cinema & Media Studies conference – alas held online rather than in Chicago as planned. It was part of a great panel on “Genre in the Age of Transmedia,” where the presentations included both typical papers and videographic pieces. I screened this new […]
Filed under: Conferences, Genre, Television, TV Shows, Videographic Criticism | 1 Comment
Tags: breaking bad, scms, videographicBB
I saw Gravity this weekend, and like many viewers and critics, I loved it. And as a sign of that enjoyment, I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it. As I always do when I encounter a piece of culture that I love, I’ve been reading about it, looking for critics who can explore […]
Filed under: Film, Genre, Narrative, Not Quite TV | 12 Comments
Tags: Gravity
Complex TV: Serial Melodrama
So. For those readers who have been following my book-in-progress Complex TV, you may have noticed a lengthy hiatus since I last posted a chapter. Not coincidentally, the last chapter I posted was in August 2012, shortly before returning to the classroom after my sabbatical. Since then, my writing process has stalled considerably, in large […]
Filed under: Complex TV, Genre, MediaCommons, Narrative, Representations, Television, TV History, TV Shows | 3 Comments
Tags: breaking bad, friday night lights, Lost, melodrama, soap opera, the good wife, The Wire, Veronica Mars
Like millions of others, I’ve had the Olympics on quite often over the past few days and will continue to care about sports that I know little about for another 11 days. And like thousands of others, I’ve enjoyed making fun of NBC’s erratic coverage, tape-delays, ethnocentrism, weak commentary, and inexplicable employment of Ryan Seacrest […]
Filed under: Genre, Television, TV Industry | Leave a Comment
Tags: #NBCFail, nbc, Olympics, Ryan Seacrest
An old college friend posted the following on Facebook yesterday: “So I keep watching the show Louie, which I find to be the most depressingly realistic TV I’ve ever seen. I think it’s a really good show, but it’s about as far from comedy as one can get. Why is it called a comedy? The […]
Filed under: Genre, Taste, Television, TV Shows | 9 Comments
Tags: jazz, louie
One of my most-clicked (if not read) posts concerns how my approach to prime time serial television relates to the traditional daytime soap opera. Last year I was asked to expand on those ideas via an interview to be included in an anthology edited by Sam Ford, Abigail De Kosnik, and C. Lee Harrington, entitled […]
Filed under: Genre, Narrative, Television | 6 Comments
Tags: interview, soap opera
The Lost Payoff
Gotta take a break from grading to write about Lost‘s rollicking season finale, and season 5 in general. Spoilery goodness beneath the fold.
Filed under: Genre, Narrative, Television, TV Shows | 9 Comments
Tags: Lost
First off, I just wanted to mention that I’ll be at Media in Transition 6 this weekend, so if you’re in Cambridge, say hi! I’m a respondant on a panel about using moving images as a rhetorical mode of film & media criticism on Sunday morning – it should be an interesting discussion. In the […]
Filed under: Genre, Press, Television, TV Shows | 13 Comments
Tags: britain's got talent, reality tv, susan boyle
The Predicability of Reality TV
In an article from Advertising Age about pursuing cross-media branding & product integration in Dancing with the Stars, I was struck by the following quotation: One reason for the fascination with the reality game shows is that they tend to play out the same way, episode after episode. “Week in and week out, you know […]
Filed under: Genre, Television, TV Shows | 2 Comments
Tags: reality tv, television genre
Political vs. emotional bias
As I’ve written about before, I’m not convinced by accusations of political bias in the media – generally claims of “liberal bias” are motivated by right-wingers trying to frame the debate and make “liberal media” an unquestioned assumption. The larger biases in the media are tied to the corporate world of sponsorship and media ownership, […]
Filed under: Genre, Media Politics | 3 Comments
I’ve previously blogged about the relationship between soap operas & prime time narrative, participating in a conversation at Henry Jenkins’s blog and Sam Ford’s post on the Convergence Culture blog. Basically, I think the majority of serialized shows in prime time do not take much from soap operatic narrative strategies beyond the serial form–the pacing […]
Filed under: Genre, Narrative, Representations, Television, TV Shows | 2 Comments
Tags: Rescue Me
Just TV 