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First Impressions: Fear the Walking Dead

August 28, 2015
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First Impressions: <em>Fear the Walking Dead</em>

Amanda Keeler offers some initial thoughts on the pilot of Fear the Walking Dead and its use of storytelling, genre, setting, and character, pointing out that interpretation will depend largely on which elements of the original Walking Dead series resonate with individual viewers.
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The Walking Deadwood? The Western and the Post-Apocalyptic Tale

February 17, 2015
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The Walking Deadwood? The Western and the Post-Apocalyptic Tale

Can The Walking Dead be read as an unconscious desire to return to the frontier, or a cautionary warning about the destructive path of the modern world?
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The Aesthetic Turn: Toward a Television Aesthetic (Again)

March 6, 2014
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The Aesthetic Turn: Toward a Television Aesthetic (Again)

How do we teach television aesthetics, and what does it mean to analyze or evaluate television aesthetics?
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Murder, Rape, and More Murder on “Quality” TV

April 22, 2013
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Murder, Rape, and More Murder on “Quality” TV

Onscreen violence against women has made several otherwise compelling programs unwatchable.
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Diagnosis: Media Amnesia (and Education)

April 1, 2013
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Diagnosis: Media Amnesia (and Education)

The cycle of obsession and disavowal over new media creates “media amnesia," whereby the promise of yet-another new technology restarts the dialogue on its perceived potential without a thorough investigation into the previous medium’s “failures.”
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