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What Are You Missing? May 9-May 23
The Empire Strikes Back?: NBC at the 2010 Upfronts
The upfronts may seem like a vestige of a dying regime. However, given that this is also an era of brands - i.e., hot shows, and in theory, hot networks - the upfronts also serve to launch anticipation on multiple fronts. Derek Kompare takes a look at the NBC upfronts in this media context.
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Nielsen’s One-Stop Shop for Media Audiences
Nielsen's planned return to being publicly traded is the latest significant change for a company that has become much more than the primary source of television ratings, but rather has evolved into the primary arbiter of media audiences of virtually all types.
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What Are You Missing, April 25-May 8
Ten (or more) media industry stories you might have missed recently.
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Watching Like a Mother
In the nearly three years since I joined the motherhood, I’ve noticed differences in the meanings I make and in what stays with me.
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“I Don’t Give a Damn About My ‘Bad Reputation’”: Glee Talks Back
I think this is the essence of Glee’s appeal: It “mashes” together the old and the new, the shallow and the deep, and in the end asks us to appreciate that our lives are much like popular culture.
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On Sports Irrelevance
We hear a lot about teams and fans that are "tortured," but what about the ones we don't hear about at all?
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A Damaged Conclusion
Looking back at Damages, I realize it would have been right at home amidst '80s film narratives that demonized career women while asserting the proper place of women at the hearth in the home.
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Report from Console-ing Passions 2010
At Console-ing Passions, you can expect scholarship on culture, identity, gender, and sexuality (as they relate to media) in every panel—and it’s great to mingle with so many brilliant feminist scholars!
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Mind The Gap: Watching Doctor Who in America
What has Doctor Who looked like from "the other side of the pond"?
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Is the Auteur All Wet? On David Simon’s Adventures in Authenticity in Post-Katrina New Orleans
Is it problematic that Treme seems to hit some false notes? Only until the series begins to interrogate the authenticity tropes one might have expected it to create.
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For the Love of Glee
Glee has garnered ardent fans, or Gleeks, around the world. Just as notable, it appears to have been embraced as particularly American. What is it about the series that has inspired this phenomenon?
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What Are You Missing? Mar 28-Apr 10
Ten (or more) media industry stories you might have missed recently
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We’re Running Out of Time!
With only eight hours left, 24 dies as it lived--made up as it goes along.
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Report from SCMS: Wednesday
The Antenna editors have asked some writers to contribute daily reports on the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) conference in Los Angeles this week. First up--a Wednesday report from Derek Kompare.
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