Is popular film criticism dead or, worse, can anybody make money out of film criticism anymore?
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Archive for April, 2010
Letting Go of Criticism
The Best Remote Control $700 Can Buy: First Impressions of the Apple iPad
I beta tested the first generation of the Apple iPad, so that you don't have to.
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Discursive Disintegration
Politically engaged, “discursively integrated” comedy has become quite the buzz topic both within the television industry as well as the academy, with all sorts of attention being paid to programs like South Park, The Colbert Report, The Daily Show etc. Nowhere is this expectation for up-to-the-minute political satire made more apparent than in...
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SCMS + SXSW = ?
Media studies stands to gain from the consideration and analysis of new media and vice versa. Bringing two major conferences together, SCMS and SXSW Interactive, and seeing what that gets us seems like as good a place to start as any.
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It’s Not Your Regular TV, It’s Bindass TV
UTV Bindass' "What I Am" campaign works to counter stereotypes of young people as immature and irresponsible, and to promote an image of youth culture as hip, cool and responsible.
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Putting the American Back in Idol
American Idol contestant Siobhan Magnus is a veritable original who typifies the American spirit--and watching her succeed is really what the show is all about.
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