Introduction

David Lavery, Prehistory

Angela Hague, History

Angela Hague, Review of Boys Will Be Boys: Critical Approaches to Simon and Simon

The SitCom

Rhonda V. Wilcox, Review of Visual Pleasure and Nasal Elevation: A Television Teleology by Taryn P. Cursive-Waters

Bill Freind, Review of From Gidget to the End of History: Sally Field and the American Century by James Detourne

Dennis Hall, Review of Equinicity: Contending Discourses in Mister Ed by Jerome Stern

Robert Holtzclaw, Review of Cultural Displacement and the Hegemony of Wealth in The Beverly Hillbillies by Justin Addison

Drama

Clifford Mapes, Review of “This is the City-State”: The Idea of the Guardian in the TV LAPD by Xerxes Havelock

David Lavery, Review of Californication and Cultural Imperialism: Baywatch and the Creation of World Culture edited by Andrew Anglophone

Children’s TV

On Mister Rogers:

Kevin Kehrwald, Review of Don’t You Be My Neighbor: Dystopian Visions in Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood by Victoria Neamo

Jeremy Brown, Won’t You be My Rhizome?: A Review of The Piano and the Trolley: The Rhizomatic Mister Rogers by Shelia Rosenberg

Krystal Whitecastle, “Tinky Winky’s got a brand new bag”: The Year's Work in Teletubbies Studies

Cartoons

Michael Dunne, Review of Beavis, Butt-head, and Bakhtin by I. B. Todorov

Stephen Tompkins, Review of They Deconstructed South Park, You Bastards! edited by Lavender Levine

Science Fiction

Paul Malone, Review of Zipping the Great Minds: Max Headroom’s BigTime Philosophy edited by Martyn Dumfries

Soap Opera

Mark J. Charney, Review of The Semiotics of Days of Our Lives: The Possession of Marlena Evans as a Pedagogical Means of Interpretation by Kristen Susan Wortham-Quinn

Brenda R. Weber, Review of Daytime Dialogism: Erica’s Eroica in the Pine Valley Village by Hillary Rodham Clinton “Smith,” and Acronym for Alterity: AMC and the Subaltern by D. Raymond Gardner

Richard Henry, The Case of “Donna Quixotic: The Mirror of Uldolpho” (Episode 18)

Reality TV and Sports

Eugene Halton, No Man is an Island: It Takes a Village Idiot: A Review of On Temptation Island: The View from the Hot Tub by Art Dimsdale

Charles A. Goldthwaite, Jr., Review of Foreign Objects in the Ring: Professional Wrestling and the Politics of Engagement by Lugnut Jones

Allison Graham, Review of Subverting Desires: Spectacles of the Simpson Year edited by André Dross

Greg A. Waller, Review of Tropes of Turbulence by R. Pupkin-Bickle and Mapping Meteorology, Signifying Storms, Deploying Doppler by Georgina Wynette and Tom E. Jones