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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Report from Console-ing Passions 2010
What Are You Missing? April 11-24
Ten (or more) media industry stories you might have missed recently.
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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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Glee Club: “The Power of Madonna”
Antenna's weekly Glee Club column discusses "The Power of Madonna," semiotic democracy, and the pleasure of reinvention.
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Derivative By Any Other Name; or, A Cultural Approach to Fan Fiction Genre Theory
For the most part, fan fiction is like porn—we know it when we see it. And yet when asked to delineate its boundaries, the genre is surprisingly hard to categorize.
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Lost Wednesdays: Everything in its Right Place
Are the final teams finally in place? Or are we moving the pieces toward another move?
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The Profound Danger of Glenn Beck
Glenn Beck may say he is simply an entertainer with little interest in politics, but that is a lie. He has proven himself a political demagogue who employs a variety of well-worn rhetorical techniques, all of which, as history has shown, are dangerous.
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‘New New’ Doctor Who: Brand Regeneration?
2010 poses a key threat to the brand, and to its 'flagship drama' status in the UK – what if a new Doctor, companion, and exec-producer team represents too much change for audiences to take?
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I Saw God and/or Treme*
Thoughts on David Simon's next HBO outing, Treme
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Record Store Day, or Vinyl Record Day?
Today is Record Store Day, a music industry event taking place at hundreds of independent record shops internationally. But is this "holiday," intended to bolster record retailers, really better seen as an assertion of vinyl's renewed importance in the industry?
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Laugh it Up, Fuzzball: Star Wars as Sit-com
The news of a greenlit sit-com based on the Star Wars saga is liable to set millions of eyes rolling and heads shaking, but while comedy and Star Wars are uneasy companions, it may be worth giving this latest venture a chance.
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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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Auteurism vs. Superhero Synergy
Warner Bros. and DC have handed the keys to the kingdom to Christopher Nolan. Is there a downside?
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Lost Wednesdays: Revving Up the Engine
Explosions, vehicular manslaughter, and throwing someone down a well make for a satisfying hour - but the real fun is in true love's kiss.
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Egregious Product Placement: Toyota & Bones
The inclusion of Angela's Toyota Sienna in the script of a recent Bones episode demonstrates an unusual alignment of product placement and ad campaign.
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