Speak Your Mind
Is this a new golden age of television?
The recent Golden Globe Awards ceremony got us thinking about how television programming has evolved over the last decade. In the accompanying Speak Your Mind video we ask: “Are we in…
Tagged: Jeff Chown
F-bombed
Is our culture really more profane than in the past?
“In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer.” —Mark Twain, a Biography A few years back, Jeff Chown was teaching an NIU…
Power behind the throne
History, modern media converge in NIU course on HBO’s ‘Game of Thrones’
For 20 NIU students, “Game of Thrones” isn’t merely the most entertaining show on television—it’s also among the most thought-provoking classes on campus this spring. At the suggestion of a…
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