Friday Night Lights – 2020 Georgia Southern Spring Game set for April 3

Friday Night Lights – 2020 Georgia Southern Spring Game set for April

Library Lights Out: EWU\u27s Living Learning Communities Sleep Over at JFK Library

Last February I received an unusual phone call. What would you think about a group of students spending the night at the library? asked Dr. Jeff Stafford, associate dean of the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Eastern Washington University. Tell me more, I replied. Shortly thereafter, I received a written proposal from Patricia Wahler, the community advisor (CA) for a student living learning community (LLC) at Morrison Hall at Eastern Washington University. Library Lights Out was Wahler\u27s idea. The Living Learning Communities of Morrison Hall would like an opportunity to utilize the Eastern Washington University library for a community-building program while incorporating educational aspects over the course of a Friday night, her proposal began

The First Year Frat Experience

It was September 14th and my three weeks were up. I had told myself I had three weeks to make friends. Three weeks before Greek life would dominate the social scene. Publicly, I decried the three week rule, writing it off as dumb or lame. Privately, a part of me wished it could last forever. That night, while my floor pregamed in their rooms, I stayed in mine. I spent a long night alone, listening to the music blasting from dorm rooms and down the streets. I decided to shut the lights off because I didn’t want the world to see what a loser I was. Looking back, I don’t think the world cared, they were too busy having a good time. I went to bed that night promising myself that I would not spend another Friday night alone in my room. I knew I was going to regret not going for a long time. Or so I thought. [excerpt

A beer a minute in Texas football: Heavy drinking and the heroizing of the antihero in Friday Night Lights

This article applies a qualitative framing analysis to the first three seasons of the television series Friday Night Lights, focusing particularly on its incorporation of heavy drinking into narrative representations of the player whose character is most consistently central to the game of football as fictionally mediated in small-town Texas over the course of those three seasons. The analysis suggests that over the course of that period Friday Night Lights embeds nuanced social meanings in its framing of alcohol use by that player and other characters so as to associate it with multiple potential outcomes. Yet among those outcomes, the most dominant framing works to, in effect, reverse a progression through which media representations historically evolved from a heroic model toward an antihero model, with heavy drinking central to that narrative process of meaning-making in such messages.Yeshttps://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/manuscript-submission-guideline

Because of rather than in spite of: ‘Friday Night Lights’ important cultural work of intersecting disability and masculinity

The 2006-2011 television series Friday Night Lights began with a storyline that featured Jason Street, an elite high school quarterback, becoming disabled. Usually, men with disability offer a straightforward media representation of a loss of masculinity and narratives consider personal triumphs “in spite of” this loss. For Garland Thomson (2007) conventional narrative genres conform to an image of bodily stability and perpetuate cultural fantasies of loss and relentless cure seeking rather than present stories “possible because of rather than in spite of disability”. She argues that presenting disability within the context of community and sexuality in particular can offer a different narrative of masculinity and structure a positive story. This paper considers the way the first season of Friday Night Lights rewrites the usual narrative of disability on television through Jason particularly in relation to community, sexuality and masculinity. This character marks a radical shift from other television characters with disability and offers a narrative because of rather than in spite of disability

Review of \u3ci\u3eOur Boys: A Perfect Season on the Plains with the Smith Center Redmen\u3c/i\u3e by Joe Drape

The best book on Great Plains sports is H. G. Bissinger\u27s Friday Night Lights (1990). That classic has spawned a critically acclaimed television series and numerous awards. FNL not only told the story of a football season at Odessa Permian High School in urban West Texas; it also asked and answered some very big questions that concerned high school athletic corruption, coaching pressures, cheerleader/ football player interaction, school integration, local community politics, treatment of players of color, Texas\u27s new rules prohibiting playing with failing grades, pressures on teachers, drugs, player abuse, and on and on. It remains a beautifully written and crafted expose. Our Boys is not Friday Night Lights. The location and subject are comparable: a season with a Great Plains football community with a winning tradition. Smith Center, Kansas, county seat of Smith County situated in northwest Kansas near the Nebraska border, is a small community of 1,931 hardy Kansans. Note that Odessa, Texas, has a population of 90,000 plus-a significant difference, but the passions in Odessa and Smith Center seem quite similar. Many of the Smith County residents are farmers and make use of the hotly contested Republican River waters for irrigation. Farmers, whom Ag schools term producers, produce grains and beef for regional and national markets; Smith Center High School produces football players, occasionally for Kansas State University and more often for regional four-year colleges

Review of \u3ci\u3eOur Boys: A Perfect Season on the Plains with the Smith Center Redmen\u3c/i\u3e by Joe Drape

The best book on Great Plains sports is H. G. Bissinger\u27s Friday Night Lights (1990). That classic has spawned a critically acclaimed television series and numerous awards. FNL not only told the story of a football season at Odessa Permian High School in urban West Texas; it also asked and answered some very big questions that concerned high school athletic corruption, coaching pressures, cheerleader/ football player interaction, school integration, local community politics, treatment of players of color, Texas\u27s new rules prohibiting playing with failing grades, pressures on teachers, drugs, player abuse, and on and on. It remains a beautifully written and crafted expose. Our Boys is not Friday Night Lights. The location and subject are comparable: a season with a Great Plains football community with a winning tradition. Smith Center, Kansas, county seat of Smith County situated in northwest Kansas near the Nebraska border, is a small community of 1,931 hardy Kansans. Note that Odessa, Texas, has a population of 90,000 plus-a significant difference, but the passions in Odessa and Smith Center seem quite similar. Many of the Smith County residents are farmers and make use of the hotly contested Republican River waters for irrigation. Farmers, whom Ag schools term producers, produce grains and beef for regional and national markets; Smith Center High School produces football players, occasionally for Kansas State University and more often for regional four-year colleges

Small Town America Under the “Lights”: Contemporary Images of Rural America in the Series Friday Night Lights

What is Small Town America? The answer to this varies based on a person’s experiences. This is not always from real-world exposure, but often vicariously through television. For some, television is the only opportunity to create a perception for such areas. For others, television could reinforce or sway their perceptions of Small Town America. Therefore, a comprehension of the identity for Small Town America broadcasted through the small screen is important. This research utilized the theory of semiotics to analyze cinematography and mise-en-scene in the opening credits of Friday Night Lights to unearth the themes and overarching ideology for Small Town America conveyed by the series. A modern depiction of rural America that played on considered “traditional values” arose. Unexpectedly, the research also unveiled the inability for an “authentic” or cohesive identity for Small Town America, or any person, location or group for that matter, to exist