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A New Brand of Tea Leaves?: The 2015 Emmy Awards

September 20, 2015
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A New Brand of Tea Leaves?: The 2015 Emmy Awards

We'll never know exactly why anyone wins Emmys, but the process weighed heavily in HBO's dominance at this year's ceremony.
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Choose Your Own Narrative: The 2014 Emmy Awards

August 26, 2014
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Choose Your Own Narrative: The 2014 Emmy Awards

How this year's ceremony's lack of narrative created discursive space filled in by everything but the production itself.
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Beyond the Nominations: The Emmys and Representation

July 1, 2014
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Beyond the Nominations: The Emmys and Representation

While we typically judge Emmy diversity through the nominees, campaigns and ballots offer other spaces to explore politics of representation.
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Self-Important Spectacle: The 2013 Emmy Awards

September 23, 2013
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Self-Important Spectacle: The 2013 Emmy Awards

From the moment the ceremony began, it was clear that this was an evening set to celebrate television in the most misguided of ways.
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Why Netflix is Not Emmy’s Online TV Vanguard

July 18, 2013
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Why Netflix is Not Emmy’s Online TV Vanguard

Netflix's nominations have been signaled as historical for online television, but they were earned through efforts to erase that distinction.
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Report From the TV Academy Faculty Seminar (Part 1)

November 21, 2012
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Report From the TV Academy Faculty Seminar (Part 1)

A group of TV Studies faculty share their impressions from a week-long Television Academy seminar.
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The Broadcast Battleground of the 2012 Emmy Awards

September 23, 2012
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The Broadcast Battleground of the 2012 Emmy Awards

While winners and losers may speak most directly to television's hierarchies, the Emmy telecast itself offers a space in which broadcast networks can reshape prevailing discourses of quality within the television industry.
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The Cheese Stands Alone: Downton Abbey’s Emmy Coup

July 19, 2012
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The Cheese Stands Alone: <i>Downton Abbey’</i>s Emmy Coup

PBS successfully transitions Downton Abbey from Miniseries to Drama Series by continuing to lean on the advantages afforded the former distinction.
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Campaign Contributions: “Mainstreaming” the Emmy Race

July 13, 2012
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Campaign Contributions: “Mainstreaming” the Emmy Race

While usually confined to niche websites, the Emmy nomination race broke into mainstream outlets as digital pages are turned over to Emmy contenders in exchange for potential advertising revenue.
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