----- Original Message -----
From: Gary Handman <ghandman@library.berkeley.edu>
Date: Thursday, August 26, 2004 8:09 pm
Subject: [Videolib] Tee Vee in Academia
> ...and just to broaden this discussion:
>
> How many academic types out there are venturing into the vast
> wasteland? As I think I mentioned awhile back, I've amassed a
> fair amount
> of programming over the past couple of years, but it always seems
> like a
> crap shoot. I've tried to move along genre lines, along cultural
> construction of race, gender, ethnicity lines, etc...but it's a
> tough go
> compared to feature film. How many seasons of Sex and the City to
> get? Which cop shows will stand as parts of the TV canon? (TV
> what?). I've taken some lead from mass comm and gender studies
> faculty
> (film faculty could care less!), but otherwise, I'm flying pretty
> blind. There's no doubt in my mind that buying this stuff is
> important--like film, TV has become grist for study across the
> disciplinary
> board. Still...
>
> Colleagues in academe...whaddaya say?
>
> Gary
>
>
>
> Gary Handman
> Director
> Media Resources Center
> Moffitt Library
> UC Berkeley
> ghandman@library.berkeley.edu
> http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC
>
> ****
>
> "Movies are poems, a holy bible, the great mother of us."
> --Ted Berrigan