Understanding "War of the Worlds"’s neglected second act requires consideration of the contested status of character monologue and larger shifts in dominant production norms for Golden Age radio drama.
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Tags: #WOTW75, adaptation, Archibald MacLeish, Campbell Playhouse, CBS, Golden Age radio, H.G. Wells, Howard Koch, John Houseman, Katharine Seymour, Max Wylie, media aesthetics, Mercury Theater on the Air, Neil Verma, Norman Corwin, Orson Welles, radio, War of the Worlds
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Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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The first installment of a series on the NYFF considers films that radically push cinematic limits: James Franco's Child of God and Catherine Breillat's Abuse of Weakness.
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Tags: Abuse of Weakness, Catherine Breillat, Child of God, Cormac McCarthy, James Franco, New York Film Festival, NYFF51
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Despite a rough start to the season, Saturday Night Live continues to be a fascinating case study for understanding American television.
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Tags: Arcade Fire, comedy, demographics, Jon Stewart, liveness, Miley Cyrus, NBC, Saturday Night Live, Seth Meyers, SNL, television, Tina Fey
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Antenna contributors review the new fall series from everyone's favorite pretend broadcast network.
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Tags: 2013, Fall, Fall TV, premieres, Reign, The CW, The Originals, The Tomorrow People, The Vampire Diaries
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As successive posts pushed our Fall pilot reviews down to the hinterland of Page 2, we remind you that they're there with handy links.
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Tags: Fall Premieres, pilots, premieres
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The departure of J. H. Williams III and W. Haden Blackman, the creative team behind Batwoman’s romance with Maggie Sawyer, results in scandal for DC and its fan community.
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Tags: comic books, homosexuality, marriage
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What happens when the forces of unchecked capitalism associated with the mainstreaming of dance music cultures prevent those cultures from protecting or regulating their own?
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Tags: DanceSafe, Diplo, DJ Afrojack, drugs, ecstasy, EDM, Electric Daisy Carnival, Electric Zoo, Kaskade, MDMA, molly, popular music, rave, subculture, TomorrowWorld
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The Antenna-Sounding Out! series From Mercury to Mars: Orson Welles on Radio after 75 Years continues with a new post from Kathleen Battles about Fred Allen's parodies of Welles.
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Tags: #WOW75, Fred Allen, From Mercury to Mars, Mercury Theater on the Air, Orson Welles
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