New Flow Issue

• "Everybody Knows" by Charles R. Acland: The "nobody knows anything" phrase is a smokescreen for an extensive and concentrated organization of advantage in the arena of commercial cultural enterprise.
• "The Hotness of Cold Opens: Breaking Bad and the Serial Narrative as Puzzle" by Lisa Coulthard: A look at the puzzling cold opens of Breaking Bad.
• "The Fringe Benefits of Symbolic Annihilation" by Esteban Del Río: Gerbner's notion of "symbolic annihilation" frames this discussion of minority representation in mainstream U.S. television, wherein Del Rio notes the conspicuous omission of Filipinos from the televisual space.
• "The History of Postmodern: Mark Ronson's Pop Nostalgia" by Lucas Hilderbrand: Lucas Hilderbrand considers how Mark Ronson's new album reminisces about the glory days of 1980s postmodern pop.
• "Welfare Queen Redux: Teen Mom, Class and the Bad Mother" by Amanda Ann Klein: MTV's Teen Mom deploys a straw man of the "Bad Mother," akin to the Reagan-era welfare queen, to depict unwed, lower-class teen women in a negative light.
• "The Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear: For the Young or the Young at Heart?" by Kelli Marshall: The "Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear" held in Washington, D.C., drew a crowd whose demographic makeup mirrored that ofThe Daily Show and The Colbert Report, contrary to the anticipated Millennial presence touted by several media commentators.
• "Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, and What We Know" by Murray Pomerance: "Can it be that we are capable of seeing -- with our vast technology and hyperstimulated imaginations -- only what was once ourselves, only what we have survived?" Thai film Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives inspires us to think about our own lives.