Comments on: Report from the ATX Television Festival http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2012/06/10/report-from-the-atx-television-festival/ Responses to Media and Culture Fri, 12 Feb 2016 19:35:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.5 By: Karen Petruska http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2012/06/10/report-from-the-atx-television-festival/comment-page-1/#comment-206666 Mon, 11 Jun 2012 17:03:13 +0000 http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/?p=13303#comment-206666 This is really fascinating, Alisa. Thanks for the report. One of the things that your post has me pondering is the diversity of television and how best to reflect that. Were there any panels on news, for example? Seems a great conversation could come from a discussion of the ideological slant of cable news, Sunday morning news chat programs, or even the role of localism for programs produced by local stations. In other words, was this a festival dedicated mostly to fictional primetime programs or did it attempt to encompass the diversity of the medium?

Also, did UT, Austin play a role at all? The article you link to describes a partnership between the festival organizers and various media figures/companies, but I did not see an explicit tie to academia. Does a festival that is organized with a clear promotional motivation limit its relevance for scholars? I absolutely agree that this seems an opportunity to encourage conversation among scholars, industry figures, and critics, but I wonder if there are inherent limits due to the organizers goals.

]]> By: Christine Becker http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2012/06/10/report-from-the-atx-television-festival/comment-page-1/#comment-206412 Sun, 10 Jun 2012 19:40:46 +0000 http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/?p=13303#comment-206412 When I first heard about this — from you, in fact, only a few weeks before it was held — I was amazed. I would have loved to attend this! But it was too late at that point for me to make plans for it. It takes a lot to get a major TV event past my attention, so I can only assume that there was problematic marketing here. Maybe that’s because there aren’t regular channels through which a TV festival would be marketed yet, the way there is with film festivals. But I love the idea of a nexus of fans, academics, and critics convening (right now, that probably only happens on Twitter), so perhaps that can happen with future festivals.

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