In the final installment of this four-part series, love is the theme shared between Spike Jonze's HER, Jim Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive, and Ralph Fiennes' The Invisible Woman.
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Tags: HER, Jim Jarmusch, New York Film Festival, NYFF51, Only Lovers Left Alive, Ralph Fiennes, Spike Jonze, The Invisible Woman
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A full rundown of all the information you'll need to know to participate in tonight's #WOTW75 collective listening experiment, commemorating the 75th anniversary of Orson Welles' and the Mercury Theatre's "War of the Worlds" radio broadcast.
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Tags: #WOTW75, CBS, connected listening, From Mercury to Mars, Mercury Theater on the Air, Orson Welles, panic broadcast, radio, social media, Twitter, War of the Worlds
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Analyzing the role of the Doctor's female companions, Keara Goin argues that despite her independence and brash image, Clara Oswald is little more than the Doctor's caretaker and a re-packaging of the traditional mother archetype.
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Tags: Alec Charles, BBC, Clara Oswald, Doctor Who, Jenna-Louise Coleman, Lindy A. Orthia, Margaret and Michael Rustin, Matt Smith, post-feminism, public broadcasting, television
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The common thread at the Making Television in the 21st Century Conference was the pursuit to provide updated models and methods to make sense of the evolving medium.
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Tags: Aarhus University, Amazon, Borgen, Brand World, Craft World, Danish Drama, Danish Television, European Television, John Caldwell, Making Television in the 21st Century, Netflix, Spec World, The Bridge, The Killing
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Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Tags: Aereo, Comcast, FCC, FilmOn X, HBO, isoHunt, Mattel, Netflix, piracy, popcorn, SiriusXM, Sony Music, Twitter
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Prepare yourself for the #WOTW75 invasion. Find out details here about the "War of the Worlds" worldwide collective listening experiment that is taking place on Wednesday, October 30th.
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Tags: #WOTW75, Mercury Theater on the Air, Orson Welles, Twitter, War of the Worlds
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The Twitter-Comcast partnership and their See It feature could have interesting consequences for lesser social networks like GetGlue and Viggle.
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Tags: GetGlue, Set It, social TV, Twitter, Viggle
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Steve McQueen's vision of the invention of slavery in 12 Years a Slave complements J.C. Chandor's image of the fantasy of a heroic white elite in All is Lost.
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Tags: 12 Years a Slave, All is Lost, Benedict Cumberbatch, Cinema Journal, film studies, J.C. Chandor, John Ridley, Michael Fassbender, New York Film Festival, NYFF51, Robert Redford, Solomon Northrup, Steve McQueen
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In this inaugural post in Antenna's new series on cultural studies and media aesthetics, "The Aesthetic Turn," Kyle Conway queries media's experiential dimensions.
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Tags: acafandom, Aesthetics, Aristotle, audiences, CCCS, cultural studies, david bordwell, encoding/decoding, media aesthetics, media studies, Nationwide, Richard Hoggart, Rudolf Arnheim, Shawn VanCour, spreadability
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The success of Netflix's original series Orange is the New Black says something about our culture’s readiness for complex, sexually diverse female characters.
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Tags: gender, industry, Netflix, Orange is the New Black, race/ethnicity, sexuality, television, transgender
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David Suisman provides a report from Functional Sounds, the first international conference of the European Sound Studies Association (ESSA), which was held in Berlin from October 4-6, 2013.
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Tags: auditory culture, ESSA, European Sound Studies Association, Interference, Journal of Sonic Studies, media studies, Society for Social Studies of Science, Sound Effects, sound studies
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In A Touch of Sin, director Jia Zhang-ke continues to address the wounds inflicted by Mao's Cultural Revolution on historical continuity and individuals' self-worth in contemporary China.
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Tags: A Touch of Sin, Jia Zhang-ke, New York Film Festival, NYFF51, The Water Margin
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When a showrunner chooses to remove themselves from Twitter, they are removing themselves from not only professional opportunity but also a space for self-expression.
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Tags: Damon Lindelof, Lost, Professional Identity, Prometheus, Showrunner, showrunners, social media, television, Twitter
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ESPN's decision to distance itself from League of Denial suggest conflict between priding itself for probing sport’s cultural meanings while keeping the world’s wealthiest sports organizations in business.
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Tags: A League of Denial, concussions, ESPN, Frontline, NFL, PBS
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In this inaugural post in Antenna's new series The Cultural Lives of Doctor Who, Matt Hills discusses the show's regular anniversary celebrations and the phenomena of "multi-Doctor" stories.
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Tags: #savetheday, BBC, David Tennant, Destiny of the Doctor, Doctor Who, John Hurt, Matt Smith, multi-Doctor, Peter Capaldi, Prisoners of Time, public broadcasting, television, The Day of the Doctor, The Light at the End
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