Posts Tagged ‘ Aesthetics ’

Marvel, Wired? Daredevil and Visual Branding in the MCU

May 1, 2015
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Marvel, Wired? <i>Daredevil</i> and Visual Branding in the MCU

How far are Marvel Studios’ film and television franchises visually coded for homogeneity? How insistently, that is to say, is brand identity maintained at the levels of design, cinematography, editing and post-production processing?
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“Television Aesthetics” versus Formal and Stylistic Analysis

April 8, 2015
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“Television Aesthetics” versus Formal and Stylistic Analysis

Piers Britton reflects on the unacknowledged divergences in use of the term “aesthetic” within television studies, and suggests that some of the elisions are leading to unproductive argument.
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Aesthetics and Affiliation in Gotham

March 24, 2015
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Aesthetics and Affiliation in <i>Gotham</i>

When Fox’s drama Gotham first premiered, it immediately became clear that its villains were going to be one of the primary foci. After all, while the series’ ostensible protagonists are Detective Jim Gordon (Ben McKenzie) and the very young Bruce Wayne (David Mazouz), Gotham’s aesthetic suggests that it is actually the two primary villains, Fish Mooney...
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The Aesthetic Turn: Toward a Television Aesthetic (Again)

March 6, 2014
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The Aesthetic Turn: Toward a Television Aesthetic (Again)

How do we teach television aesthetics, and what does it mean to analyze or evaluate television aesthetics?
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The Aesthetic Turn: How Media Translate, or, Why Do I Like Chase Scenes?

November 6, 2013
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The Aesthetic Turn: How Media Translate, or, Why Do I Like Chase Scenes?

In this latest entry in The Aesthetic Turn series, Kyle Conway considers the aesthetic experience of media, using translation and metaphor to turn our attention away from the object and toward our experience of media in the age of convergence.
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The Aesthetic Turn: Cultural Studies and the Question of Aesthetic Experience

October 23, 2013
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The Aesthetic Turn: Cultural Studies and the Question of Aesthetic Experience

In this inaugural post in Antenna's new series on cultural studies and media aesthetics, "The Aesthetic Turn," Kyle Conway queries media's experiential dimensions.
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Dolby Atmos: What You Hear

April 11, 2013
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Dolby Atmos: What You Hear

If Atmos or a similar system were to become the industry standard, questions arise as to how its potential aesthetic might shape the way films sound and look.
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Mad Men vs Sherlock: What Makes a Fandom?

August 10, 2010
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Mad Men vs Sherlock: What Makes a Fandom?

Over the past few weeks, we've had the opportunity to watch a fandom take root at double speed. And despite the purpose of this Antenna series, I'm not talking about Mad Men.
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