Of all the David Frosts, I am the David Frostiest.
Assistant Professor Elizabeth Cohen at Scientific American says: According to [Zillman’s] affective disposition theory, people enjoy entertainment when characters that they identify as the “good guys” win, and the “bad guys” get the justice they deserve. And yet for a long time, we the audience have apparently enjoyed watching characters on TV do bad/immoral things …
When we like a TV show, why do we like it? What is it about a TV show or any media content that makes it good? Perhaps you don’t care. “It’s enough that I like it,” you say. “I don’t need to know more than that.” That may be fine for you. But media content …
I’ve been looking for any book reviews out there of “Girls and Philosophy.” The first one I’ve found was at Salon.com well before the book hit the stores. The Salon writer, Anna Silman, interviews the editors (she calls them the “authors”) about the characters’ existentialism and more. There’s an essay in the book where the …
People are talking about Alexis Madrigal’s excellent investigative piece into Netflix’s content ontology and architecture. You know those super-specific genre categories that Netflix recommends to you? I watch “Bowling for Columbine” and Netflix recommends to me other “Critically-acclaimed Fight-the-System Documentaries” such as “Gasland.” There’s “Cerebral Foreign Horror Movies,” and “Witty Dysfunctional-Family TV Animated Comedies,” for …