Unlike any other episode to date, “Waldorf Stories” stresses the importance of masculine disengagement by creating a context in which this mode is no longer available to Don.
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Archive for August, 2010
What’s Happening to Don Draper?: Mad Men and the Waning Value of Masculine Detachment
What Do You Think? The Emmys
The 62nd Primetime Emmys aired last night on NBC with a first-time host, and several first-time winners. There's much to discuss, and at Antenna, we're curious: what do you think?
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What Are You Missing? August 15-28
Ten (or more) media industry stories you might have missed recently.
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Summer Media: American Pickers, Pawn Stars, and Shows About Stuff
The documentary reality TV series American Pickers and Pawn Stars are two of this summer's hottest original shows on cable. And yet, how is that shows about collecting really expensive stuff are so popular amidst an economic recession?
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Part-time Occupation
Keeping shooting schedules is hard enough under perfect conditions. For producers in the West Bank things are never perfect. For a scholar, for better and for worse, that’s part of the story.
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Vampire Shows and Gendered Quality Television
If I were to pick a worthy successor of Buffy's Sunnydale, it would be Mystic Falls rather than Bon Temps.
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Kids Today
Kids are being sexualized these days. And, wouldn’t you know it, popular culture is said to be at fault
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“You’re Not Going to Kill This Account”: Mad Men, Racial Prejudice, and History
Mad Men begs the question of how the 1960s embodied by our characters informs the present world that we now inhabit. What would it mean if we are the inheritors not of only the brave triumphs of the Freedom Riders, but also of the indifference or disinterest of people who felt unaffected by them?
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From Painting to Cinema: A Skeptical Look
When, if at all, can we appeal to painting to explain a filmmaker's work?
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Chinese Deadwood in Malawi
American TV in Malawi, by way of China and South Africa. What are we to make of the cultural intermediaries, and what does this say about global media flow?
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Selling Style: Mad Men and the Fashioning of Femininity
"The Rejected" is an episode in which how the characters look was central to the meanings on offer.
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What Are You Missing? August 1-August 14
And...we’re back. Ten (or more) media industry stories you might have missed recently.
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Geek Hierarchies, Boundary Policing, and the Good Fan/Bad Fan Dichotomy
We may be several decades removed from the emotional upheavals of the culture debates, but popular studies remains a readily mocked area in mainstream media, especially as universities are often asked to produce efficient and effectual employees rather than well rounded individuals.
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Grown-Up Government: Bindi Irwin for Prime Minister! (Or President!)
In the Inception election, is there anyone left in Australia who harbours political ambitions, personal integrity, a strong stance on environmental issues, and a unified and universal identity? Crikey, yes!
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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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