Tasha Oren

• Tufts University

This article examines Viceland's rise and fall through its pot-friendly food programming. Vice's wielding of cooking and cannabis as ideal expressions of its masculine, countercultural brand is analyzed here through intersecting histories of the evolving cultural status of cannabis, food television's generic conventions, and Vice Media's own proble...

An overview of feminist scholarship in a variety of different academic fields, and a reflection on the way feminist scholarship has evolved into the current era. A valuable resource for classrooms presenting feminist theory and research.

Tasha Oren conducts close readings of the television documentaries Stairway to Heaven (Errol Morris, Bravo, 2000) and The Woman Who Thinks Like a Cow (Emma Sutten, BBC, 2006) and the fictionalized biopic Temple Grandin (Mick Jackson, HBO, 2010). These representations of Temple Grandin—prolific author, professor of animal science at Colorado Univers...

Through an in-depth look at the history of US food television, this essay elucidates the extent to which contemporary television relies on the structural (and narrative) logic of the format. Focusing on contemporary food television's radical evolution with the introduction of competition programmes and formats, the essay accounts for the move away...

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By the 1960s, the question of instituting a television service in Israel had become the subject of a public controversy and a political debate. Hailed as a great educational tool by some and a dangerous ‘culture bomb’ by others, television facilitated a process of cultural self-definition as Israelis struggled to set the wouldbe service apart and s...

The white suburban sitcom, a genre that emerged to a moderate success in the late 1950s and early 1960s, has had a curious afterlife. More than Westerns, adventure programs, variety shows or police dramas, these visions of stiff and dated domestic bliss continue to fascinate; the immaculately groomed house-wife in pearls is 1950s TV for most Americ...