Ten (or more) media industry stories you might have missed recently.
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What Are You Missing? Aug 29-Sep 11
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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What’s Happening to Don Draper?: Mad Men and the Waning Value of Masculine Detachment
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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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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