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Pop Culture 2.0?
Originally posted September 6, 2006 It’s the end of an era. Two of the most influential figures in American pop culture were fired this week: Tom Freston and Robert Christgau. Freston, who was head of...
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Ted’s Top TV Shows of 2010
1. Louie 2. Community 3. Breaking Bad 4. Parks & Recreation 5. Lost 6. No Reservations 7. Mad Men 8. Top Chef 9. Sunday Night Football 10. Pardon the Interruption 11....
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Centaur Manifesto
I’m writing a book about centaurs and cyborgs – about trying to bring together mythos and logos, magic and science, Carl Jung and Karl Marx, Maria Von Franz and Fredric Jameson. I’m podcasting the book...
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Tedcast #3: Interviewed by Erik Davis
The third Tedcast takes a break from my Fantasy & Science Fiction lectures to present an interview with me conducted by Erik Davis. Erik hosts Expanding Minds on the Progressive Radio Network, and...
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Ted’s Top 50 TV Shows of the 2000s
Originally posted December 29, 2009 This was the decade in which TV became America’s most exciting creative medium. When the most compelling auteurs were not filmmakers, but showrunners like Joss...
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Media and Popular Culture, Spring 2011
Media and Popular Culture Film 4810, Spring 2011 Mondays & Wednesdays 1:30-2:45, Aderhold 303 Office: 738 One Park Place South Email: ted3k@me.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/tedfriedman...
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Ted’s Movie Database
The complete Ted’s Movie Database, featuring the Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead rating system, is now back online. It’s part of the new Lists section, which includes year-end Top 10s and...
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Pop Music Week on In Media Res [Updated through Friday]
This week the digital humanities journal In Media Res will be posting a series of short pieces I organized on pop music. All the contributors are old friends who worked with me in college on the zine...
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History in RealTime: @tedfriedman on 2/11/11 (in chronological order)
SalmaCNN Salma Abdelaziz In an incredibly tense moment Egyptians use their famous humor to lighten the mood and find out #ReasonsMubarakIsLate #jan25 hyperlocavore Liz McLellan RT @mmflint: RT...
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What I’ve Been Up to the Last Five Years
I recently had to write up what I’ve been working on over the last five years for my “post-tenure dossier,” so I thought I’d excerpt that here to explain how I got from Electric Dreams: Computers and...
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New Interview on the Diet Soap Philosophy Podcast
SF writer Douglas Lain interviewed me for his philosophy podcast, Diet Soap. We talk about myth, ideology and flying saucers: The essay of mine we talk about, “Myth, the Numinous and Cultural Studies,”...
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Marx, Jung & Yoda: The Dialectics of The Force
Here’s a talk about Star Wars and myth that I gave last month at the Academy of Religious Studies conference in San Francisco. Feedback is welcome – I’m in the process of turning this into the...
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Ted’s Top TV of 2011
1. Portlandia 2. Enlightened 3. Breaking Bad 4. Louie 5. Community 6. Parks and Recreation 7. Justified 8. Childrens Hospital 9. The Amazing Race 10. The Great Food Truck Race 11. Curb Your Enthusiasm...
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Media and Cultural Studies, Spring 2012
COMM 6160/8690, Spring 2012 Thursdays 4:30-7:00 PM, Sparks 321 Ted Friedman Office: 738 One Park Place South ted@tedfriedman.com http://twitter.com/tedfriedman http://tedfriedman.com Course Description...
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Ted’s Top TV of 2012
1. Breaking Bad 2. Louie 3. Mad Men 4. 30 Rock 5. Girls 6. Childrens Hospital 7. Game of Thrones 8. Parks and Recreation 9. The Mindy Project 10. Community 11. New Girl 12. Justified 13. The Amazing...
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Ted’s Top TV of 2013
Breaking Bad Game of Thrones Girls 30 Rock Parks and Recreation Orange Is the New Black Mad Men Pardon the Interruption Top Chef NFL RedZone The Daily Show The Mindy Project Childrens Hospital Brooklyn...
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