admin Violence Formula: Analyzing TV, Video and Movies
Violence is the foundation of many films, TV movies, and action series. In fact, violence is often synonymous with "action."…
All Power to the Conglomerate
On October 4, 1957, a rocket took off from an isolated plain near an obscure village in Siberia. Called Sputnik,…
STARTING POINT: Wrestling with Television — 15 Years of Cutting Edge TV Criticism
There’s a provocative new book currently making the rounds by a man who, aided by a host of friends with…
Comics and Culture: The Cartoonist as TV Critic
A mother comes into the family room where her son is watching a noisy action/adventure show with his school books…
Starting Point: In the Light of the Fires
Throughout this issue we address the media’s mandate to provide meaningful political discourse, an abstract phrase that we struggle to…
Making Politics Work
Roger Ailes, media advisor to presidents Reagan and Bush, once told a reporter: “You get up every morning and try…
Brave New World: Rediscovering Democratic Media
Frances Moore Lappé, longtime social philosopher and author of the pioneering study of food resources, Diet for a Small Planet,…
‘America’s Wish Book’ Sells Dreams
Printed and dispersed widely in the latter decades of the nineteenth century, advertisements provided a vehicle by which urban life…
How TV Works
In television most programs are produced by independent production companies who then sell their product to the networks. The networks…
Pictures in the Parlor
If traditional culture defined a world where only the wealthy had access to beautiful color pictures–oil paintings–the proliferation of advertising…