What a difference five weeks of pointless, mind-numbing misery, humiliation, and dysfunction makes, huh? Our…
Category: television
The student: Since the beginning of time, man has reached for greater heights. The talking…
Like The Andy Griffith Show, the near total absence of black characters on The Beverly Hillbillies made the show’s southernness more viable to its millions of viewers. It taught them that erasing was easier than confronting the weighty problem of white southern racism.
Sometimes, you have a dream whose metaphorical meaning is so thuddingly obvious it almost seems…
America’s preposterous debate over “civility” in politics has somehow tumbled into Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood, of…
One of the few (very few) pleasures of having cable and paying out an obscene…
Finally, we wind down our retrospective of the “anus horribilis” with the rest of the…
Scholars in recent years have studied a variety of different media to challenge the ever-present…
