David Milch will discuss his career as a writer and creator, including of Hill Street Blues, NYPD Blue (co-created with Steven Bochco), and the pioneering HBO series Deadwood.
TV News in Transition
No aspect of television has changed more decisively in recent years than its news programming.
TV You’ll Want To Pay For
Graduate student Ivan Askwith has an article in today’s edition of Slate, entitled “TV You’ll Want To Pay For: How $2 Downloads Can Revive Network Television.”
The Power and Pleasures of Reality TV
CMS Director Henry Jenkins discusses “The Power and Pleasures of Reality TV” in this interview with Chicago Public Radio.
Applied Humanism: The Re:constructions Project
“By Monday morning, the site, Re:constructions, had launched with more than one hundred essays [about immediate reactions to 9/11].”
Rethinking the Informed Citizen in an Age of Hybrid Media Genres: Tanner ’88, K-Street, and the Fictionalization of News
R.J. Bain on becoming informed about politics by viewing entertainment programs that combine fiction with current political events, issues, and figures.
Media in Transition 3: Television
The third Media in Transition conference centers on television’s political and cultural role at the dawn of our new millennium.
