Posts Tagged ‘ television ’

Boardwalk Empire’s Aged Media Conundrum

January 6, 2011
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Boardwalk Empire’s Aged Media Conundrum

Among the many threads entwined in this production are its virtually fetishistic engagement with and display of early 20th century material culture, including forms of media.
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Defining Television Studies

January 4, 2011
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Defining Television Studies

How to define television studies? What is television studies and what isn't?
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Dancing with Democracy

November 23, 2010
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Dancing with Democracy

While controversy is nothing new for reality TV, the political overtones of Bristol Palin's run on Dancing with the Stars illuminate the genre's tenuous relationship with the principles of democracy.
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What Are You Missing? November 7-20

November 21, 2010
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What Are You Missing? November 7-20

Ten (or more) media industry stories you might have missed recently.
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What Are You Missing? Oct 24-Nov 6

November 7, 2010
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What Are You Missing? Oct 24-Nov 6

Ten (or more) media industry stories you might have missed recently.
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What Are You Missing? Oct 10-23

October 24, 2010
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What Are You Missing? Oct 10-23

Ten (or more) media industry stories you might have missed recently.
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Converse Rubber Tracks: What’s a Shoe Company Doing With a Recording Studio?

October 22, 2010
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Converse Rubber Tracks: What’s a Shoe Company Doing With a Recording Studio?

Are lifestyle brands the new record labels? A new recording studio owned by Converse is offering musicians the opportunity to record their music for free, further reducing the need for artists to work with traditional record labels. There are, of course, some strings attached.
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End of an Era: NBC Post-Zucker?

October 6, 2010
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End of an Era: NBC Post-Zucker?

Zucker never managed to balance a love for the potential of television with a love for the bottom line. Indeed, his job description only expected the latter, but the great ones have managed to do both.
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Report From: Flow 2010 (#2)

October 5, 2010
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Report From: Flow 2010 (#2)

Given that Erin so eloquently captured the buzz of the scholarly conversations this weekend, I’m going to focus on some of the roundtables that I found most intellectually stimulating.
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Report From: Flow 2010

October 4, 2010
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Report From: Flow 2010

The ability to facilitate dialogue not only within roundtables, but among them, seems to me the greatest strength of the Flow conference model.
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Arthur Penn and Live Television Drama

October 3, 2010
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Arthur Penn and Live Television Drama

Director Arthur Penn, who passed away last week, is best remembered for his Broadway plays and Hollywood films, but his impressive work in television's live anthology dramas has been neglected.
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What Are You Missing? Sept 12-25

September 26, 2010
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What Are You Missing? Sept 12-25

Ten (or more) media industry stories you might have missed recently.
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