How to access media from your homeland while abroad.
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Tags: Amazon, Global Media, iTunes, Licensing, Netflix, slingbox, streaming television
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Maureen Ryan calls for a history of lifestyle and its emergence as a dominant form of commercial programming in the US.
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Tags: history of lifestyle, internet, lifestyle media, media history, television, TLC, virality
Posted in Perspectives | Comments Off on On TLC, Television Studies, and the Specter of the Recent Past
Antenna introduces a new series on the mediation of Middle Eastern politics, edited by Matt Sienkiewicz and articulated through the side-by-side perspectives of bloggers and academics.
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Tags: blogging, journalism, Middle East, politics
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U.S. paternalism and egoism takes center stage in the third round of presidential debates.
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Tags: foreign policy, politics, presidential debates, television
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When little is off-limits in terms of storytelling fodder and anything can be expected, how can the audience tell when something truly unexpected happens?
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Tags: liveness, narrative, reality, television, wrestling, WWE
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While the Occupy movement uses the 1% metaphor to critique social inequality, the Hunted transmedia campaign finds multiple ways to integrate the metaphor into the system of commercial television.
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Tags: channel branding, Cinemax, Hunted, Occupy Wall Street, quality television, transmedia
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Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Tags: 3D, Academy Awards, advertising, Amazon, broadband, documentary, file sharing, gaming, mobile technology, music, newspapers, Pandora, Spotify, television, Xbox, YouTube
Posted in Columns, What Are You Missing? | 1 Comment »
Although live performances over radio like those of the Grand Ole Opry are one of the medium's basic functions, liveness is also culturally constructed, and its relationship with radio is fluid and uncertain.
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Tags: Grand Ole Opry, liveness, Nashville, radio
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Antenna contributors consider the 2012 Fall Premieres from The CW.
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Tags: Arrow, Beauty and the Beast, Emily Owens M.D., Fall 2012, premieres, The CW, TV
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CFP for a Special Issue of Journal of Popular Film and Television: “New Directions in Screen Technologies”
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Tags: academic journals, CFP, digital media, film, media technologies, publications, television
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Taking on selections from this year's New York Film Festival.
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Tags: Abbas Kiarostami, Ang Lee, catharsis, modernity, New York Film Festival, Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, Shakespeare, tradition
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How fact-checking and the win/lose paradigm may distract voters from the more important moments in a debate.
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Tags: politics, presidential debates, vice-presidential debates
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In the second of two posts on the enterprise of black female discipline, how does the enterprise change when a black woman is the disciplinarian?
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Tags: black female discipline, blackness, gender, talk shows, women
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What political investments are written into discursive analysis? What is the relationship between media literacy and aesthetic analysis?
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Tags: Aesthetics, Birmingham School, david bordwell, Discourse, Foucault, Gramsci, John Fiske, Julie D'Acci, Media and Cultural Studies, media education, media literacy, Michele Hilmes, Pierre Bourdieu, Raymond Williams, Richard Hoggart, semiotics, Stuart Hall, television, television studies, understanding popular culture, understanding television
Posted in Politics, TV | 2 Comments »
Taking on selections from this year's New York Film Festival.
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Tags: Araf, Barbara, Camille Rewinds, Cinema Journal, Here and There, Hyde Park on Hudson, New York Film Festival, Passion
Posted in Film, Perspectives | Comments Off on NYFF 2012: In a Mellow Mood [Part One]