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In discussing the decline of celebrity it is a commonplace to remark the many, many "faux pas" of the famous, and how all these ha...

Older TV--TV from before our prestige TV-dominated era--certainly had its particular rhythms and texture that, even when the show isn't ...

As Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky showed in their classic of news media criticism Manufacturing Consent , a single critical detail can crash...

According to Wikipedia , "[a]n n-gram is a sequence of n adjacent symbols in a particular order"--for instance, that particular or...

Tom Clancy's heyday as a novelist was unquestionably in the 1980s , but the "Ryanverse" he created remains an on-screen presen...

As the pandemic proved to be a lingering phenomenon I came to expect that it would mean a long-term structural change for the cinematic mark...

2025 was supposed to be a year of recovery for Hollywood generally, and the superhero film genre particularly, with Marvel seizing on the un...

Back amid the mostly "new network," cable and syndication-based '90s boom in science fiction television some have spoken of as...

In discussing Star Trek (I have in mind the entire saga on the small and large screens from the pilot "The Cage" to the last episo...

When I first considered the idea that cultural genres may follow life cycles--emerge, develop, stagnate, decline, even "die" --and...

The entertainment press has preferred to remember the 2018 romantic comedy Crazy Rich Asians as a great success. The reality, of course, wa...

For me the Star Trek saga properly ended in 2005, with the last episode of Enterprise , if not earlier. (Certainly its best days were well b...

The question that is the title of this post may strike some as odd. After all, does the reality TV genre not get subject to a lot of critici...