The whole world is watching (literally) every time Truman Burbank (Jim Carrey) makes the slightest move. Unbeknownst to him, his entire life has been an unending soap opera for consumption by the rest of the world. Everyone he knows, including his mother (Holland Taylor) and his wife (Laura Linney), is really an actor, paid to […]
Two & A Half Men: The Series
The Harper brothers Charlie (Charlie Sheen) and Alan (Jon Cryer) are almost opposites but form a great team. They have little in common except their dislike for their mundane, maternally cold and domineering mother, Evelyn (Holland Taylor).Alan, a compulsively neat chiropractor and control-freak, is thrown out by his manipulative wife Judith (Marin Hinkle) who nevertheless […]
Making Sense of Television
Taking the soap opera as a case study, this book explores the parasocial interaction people engage in with television programs. It looks at the nature of the active viewer and the role of the text in social psychology. It also investigates the existing theoretical models offered by social psychology and other discourses. This book takes […]
Masters of Horror: Cigarette Burns
John Carpenter’s installment in the Masters of Horror cable-TV anthology series looks at the ominous, underground mystique surrounding a notorious 1970s horror classic, something Carpenter should know about. Cigarette Burns tracks the search for said opus, Le Fin Absolue du Monde, by the owner of a repertory theater (Norman Reedus) on behalf of a highly […]
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