Tag: Television
Bob Dylan brings links between JFK assassination and coronavirus into stark...
Aniko Bodroghkozy, University of Virginia
Over the past few weeks, the coronavirus has turned the country’s cultural spigot off, with sports suspended, museums closed and...
The battle between NBC and CBS to be the first to...
Mike Conway, Indiana University
When the Berlin Wall was completed in August 1961, East German residents immediately tried to figure out ways to circumvent the...
4 reasons why we’ll never see another show like ‘Friends’
Martie Cook, Emerson College and Manuel Basanese, Emerson College
On Sept. 22, 1994, six telegenic 20-somethings frolicked in a fountain in front of credits that...
Is it even possible to connect ’13 Reasons Why’ to teen...
Emily Lund, University of Alabama and Michael R. Nadorff, Mississippi State University
Netflix recently released the third season of “13 Reasons Why,” and the Salt...
The strange connection between Bobby Kennedy’s death and Scooby-Doo
Kevin Sandler, Arizona State University
Scooby-Doo, one of the most enduring animated characters ever to emerge from U.S. television, celebrates his 50th birthday this month.
Created...
You’d be better off lighting your money on fire than giving...
Liberty Vittert, Washington University in St Louis
Alright, you want to make this country a better place for yourself, your children and the many generations...
From ‘Pretty Little Liars’ to ‘The OC,’ television producers need to...
Cristel Antonia Russell, American University Kogod School of Business
Teen drinking is rampant on television these days.
From “Pretty Little Liars” to classic shows like “The...
What Orwell’s ‘1984’ tells us about today’s world, 70 years after...
Stephen Groening, University of Washington
Seventy years ago, Eric Blair, writing under a pseudonym George Orwell, published “1984,” now generally considered a classic of dystopian...