Is the exclusion of blackness on Mad Men an oversight, a strategic choice, or a reflection of the continuing privilege of whiteness?
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Archive for September, 2010
In Defense of the Strategic Marginalization of Blackness within Mad Men
What Are You Missing? Aug 29-Sep 11
Ten (or more) media industry stories you might have missed recently.
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Changes in Antenna Editors
Welcome to our six new Antenna rotating editors, Evan Elkins, Kit Hughes, Myles McNutt, Nora Seitz, Jennifer Smith, and Adrian Sullivan!
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Egregious Product Placement: The Closer & Hershey’s
Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson on TNT's The Closer loves candy. And Hershey's loves The Closer. Is it a product placement match made in heaven?
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Business as Usual
It’s worthwhile thinking about the Blackberry investigations and Google/Verizon plan for the future of net neutrality in connection with each another because they tell us a lot about trends in information policy and practice.
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Open or Closed? Mad Men, Celebrity Gossip, and the Public/Private Divide
This week's Mad Men is all about gossip.
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Summer Media: Wet and Wild Amusements
The strange case of the carnivalesque and commercial nature of the modern amusement park.
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A New Stage in the Evolution of Original Cable Programming?
This summer’s crop of original cable series leaves me wondering if we’ve entered a new era, as I increasingly find less innovation and distinction among many of cable’s originals.
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