In response to my previous post and the comments, I want to try and pick at the idea of pleasure and academics. The "guilt" aspect of watching certain shows always seems to coincide with a personal sense of fandom- an almost illogical sense that this show, this representation and set of images, somehow connects with you in your gut and therefore you have to justify the link to your head. So not everyone is going to like Buffy or Veronica Mars- and they don't have to and they probably shouldn't. I might never like 24, or have more than a passing acquaintance with the X-files or Starwars or the Matrix. But what is important about these shows is how they create counter(is that the right word?) cultures or subcultures maybe. Narrowcasting makes sure one audience or another is addressed and that audience feels compelled to undestand why these shows are aimed at them and how they work- how do you identify a niche, sell it and compel it. As the media side of Film and Media grows, more and more people will come into conflict with the cannon of film and the postmodern chaos of television. b/c TV is so fast, so fleeting, it often captures the identity of a moment in a way films cannot.
So this is a Flow article on VM and discusses how identity and the self are captured by these narrowcast shows like Battlestar Galactica, etc. :
http://jot.communication.utexas.edu/flow/?jot=view&id=2074
and for true convergence check out this fan remix of VM and Battlestar explaining the origin of the word "Frak.":
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