Split Reel
The following shows were originally broadcast on Under Surveillance, which ran from 2004-2009 on WLUW.
Popular Culture
— With Leonard Pierce of The Onion’s A/V Club:
- AMC’s Mad Men
- The Depiction of Wealth in Popular Culture
- The Hollywood President
- Transcript: The evolution of our views of “the future” in fiction
- Transcript: The Mafia in Popular Culture
- The Continuing Evolution of the Graphic Novel in Film
- HBO’s The Wire (Seasons 4-5)
- HBO’s The Wire (Seasons 1-3)
- The Automobile in Popular Culture
- The Resurgence of Superheroes in Film and Television
– With Robert Thompson, Director for the Center for Television and Popular Culture at Syracuse University
- The Holidays in Mass Media
- The Politician — Hollywood style
- The Current State of TV Sitcoms
- Sy-Fy’s Battlestar Galactica
– With Timothy Shary, Director of Film and Video Studies at the University of Oklahoma
- The Classroom in Film
- Youth Culture in Global Cinema
- Juno and 2007 Youth-Themed Films
- American Teenagers in Cinema
– With Molly McAshan, Mental-Health Professional and Film Blogger
- Hollywood’s Depiction of the Quest for “Happiness”
- Mental Illness in Pop Culture
- Time Travel in Popular Culture
- Drugs in Pop Culture
– Other Guests
- The American Action Movie, w/guest Eric Lichtenfeld
- Romantic Comedy in Cinema, w/guest Stacey Abbott
- Horror Cinema in Cultural Context, w/guest Kendall Phillips
- The World of Neo-Noir Film, w/guest Mark Conard
- Nuclear War in Mass Media, w/guest Ian Abrams
- Hollywood & American Wars, w/guest Peter Rollins
- Disaster Movies, w/guest Stephen Keane
- The Depiction of Journalism in Film, w/guest Matthew Ehrlich
- Baseball in Cinema, w/guests Stephen Wood and J. David Pincus
- The Rise of the Action Heroine, w/guest Jeffrey Brown
- Music and Cultural Identity, w/guest John Shepherd
- Serial Killers, w/guest Tomas Guillen
Politics — With Political Science Professor Alan Gitelson of Loyola University
