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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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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How do we teach television aesthetics, and what does it mean to analyze or evaluate television aesthetics?
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Onscreen violence against women has made several otherwise compelling programs unwatchable.
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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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