Archive for February, 2013

WWE vs. Glenn Beck: Potshots to Publicity, Controversy to Cash

February 28, 2013
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WWE vs. Glenn Beck: Potshots to Publicity, Controversy to Cash

While the issue is ostensibly about the negative portrayal of the Tea Party, Glenn Beck and WWE have taken advantage of the situation for publicity.
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“We Saw Your Misogyny”: The Oscars & Seth MacFarlane

February 27, 2013
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“We Saw Your Misogyny”: The Oscars & Seth MacFarlane

The controversy surrounding Seth MacFarlane's hosting of the 2013 Oscars offers an opportunity to have productive discussions about the role of the media in shaping ideology.
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Rebooting Sex and the City: How The Franchise Carrie-s On

February 26, 2013
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Rebooting Sex and the City: How The Franchise Carrie-s On

One of the most significant features of this franchise is its adaptability and ability to transcend production models and multi-generational fan engagement within different industrial moments.
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Shut it Down: The End of 30 Rock

February 25, 2013
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Shut it Down: The End of 30 Rock

A cultural discussion of 30 Rock's television legacy for feminist discourse and self reflexive satire television in the wake of its final broadcast.
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Half the Battle? Envisioning Citizenship in “Whole Again”

February 21, 2013
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Half the Battle?  Envisioning Citizenship in “Whole Again”

While failing to sell SUVs, the commercial offers visions of wartime American citizenship with which spectators are to identify: the forlorn dog, the crying wife, and the praying child.
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One World, Two Ways In (For Some): Syfy’s Defiance

February 20, 2013
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One World, Two Ways In (For Some): Syfy’s <i>Defiance</i>

While Defiance may seek to expand its focus beyond a primarily male audience, as a broader transmedia initiative it highlights the gendered realities of convergent media practices.
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An Entourage Movie? Why?

February 19, 2013
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An Entourage Movie? Why?

Entourage may have already given HBO’s parent company Time Warner all that it’s capable of giving.
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What Are You Missing? Feb 3-Feb 16

February 17, 2013
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What Are You Missing? Feb 3-Feb 16

Ten media news items you might have missed recently.
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House of Cards Has No Advertising

February 14, 2013
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<i>House of Cards</i> Has No Advertising

Netflix's willingness to give the audience control over serial viewing challenges assumptions that the best way to control program costs is to eke out episodes over time, measuring demand, and then raising and lowering prices in response.
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A Remediation Meditation: The Aca-Media Podcast

February 13, 2013
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A Remediation Meditation: The Aca-Media Podcast

It’s the kind of delicious irony that we broadcast historians relish:  in order to move boldly into the future and expand on the cutting edge of communications technology, Cinema Journal has started a radio show. Aca-Media (officially:  “Cinema Journal Presents Aca-Media”) is a new monthly podcast covering current media studies scholarship, issues in the...
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The Cancellation of Don’t Trust the B and Gay Black Tele(in)visibility

February 12, 2013
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The Cancellation of <i> Don’t Trust the B </i> and Gay Black Tele(in)visibility

As we bid farewell to Don’t Trust the B, we also bid farewell to a part of gay black visibility on network television. Luther was a character written in a mold that has (problematically) been deemed passé and disrespectful to the middle class, married/coupled, suburban model of gay televisibility. And for that, we should...
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A Turf War at the Book Club: Considering the Cultural Work of Canada Reads

February 8, 2013
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A Turf War at the Book Club: Considering the Cultural Work of <i>Canada Reads</i>

With the 2013 edition of 'Canada Reads' set to begin on Monday, we consider the cultural work performed by the program in the Canadian context. In particular, what are the potential implications of this year's emphasis on competition between Canada's regions for the program and its contributions to debates and discourses concerning Canadian national...
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On Radio: The Truth, and Other Jeopardies

February 7, 2013
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On Radio: <i>The Truth</i>, and Other Jeopardies

As various groups rethink drama's place in the "new golden age" of radio, podcasts by The Truth, a group responsible for some of the most interesting dramatic audio in recent memory, are producing a new sense of audioposition.
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“You are my flawed hero”: Plotting Lived Fictions and Fictionalized Lives

February 6, 2013
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“You are my flawed hero”: Plotting Lived Fictions and Fictionalized Lives

The new series The Following literally spells out the very tropes it plan to use, letting its audience in on its postmodern joke where the plotting criminal is aware that he is creating a literary plot as well.
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