Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (86th, Kansas City, Missouri, July 30-August 2, 2003). Entertainment Studies Interest Group.

The Entertainment Studies Interest Group of the proceedings contains the following 9 papers: "Beyond Modern Racism: Backlash and Brutality on 'The Shield'" (John D. Richardson); "Big Brother and the T-Group: How We Might Learn from Reality Television" (Rod Allen and Nod Miller); "Hegemony and Counterhegemony in Bravo's 'Gay Weddings'" (Erika Engstrom); "Narrative Structure in 'Sex and the City': 'I Couldn't Help But Wonder...'" (Cindy Royal); "The Elements of 'Weekend Update': Informing and Influencing through Late-Night Comedy" (Aaron Reincheld); "Crime, Romance and Sex: Washington Women Journalists in Recent Popular Fiction" (Stacy L. Spaulding and Maurine H. Beasley); "Television Viewing and Attitude Toward Marriage: Does Program Genre Make a Difference? (Sara Baker Netzley);"Partisan Politics in Popular American Political Movies: An Analysis of the Framing of Republican Villains in 'Dave', 'The American President' and 'The Contender'" (Julie Yioutas); and "Queer as Folk Audience Study: Gay Males, Social Support and Para-Social Involvement in Identity Construction or Reinforcement" (Laetitia J. Baehr). (RS)