Amazon Studios's Pilot Season attempts to frame itself as a “disruption” of both the traditional Hollywood development system and Netflix’s production of prestige television.
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Archive for August, 2014
Populist or Prestige? Amazon’s Attempts to Brand Pilot Season
Choose Your Own Narrative: The 2014 Emmy Awards
How this year's ceremony's lack of narrative created discursive space filled in by everything but the production itself.
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MTV Shows Its Seams
MTV's 2014 VMA Awards visualize the music industry's feminist growing pains.
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Steven Soderbergh: Television’s Latest Showrunner/Auteur
The fusion of cinema, television, and personality has critics resounding with near-universal praise for Cinemax's The Knick, resulting in a very heavy ride on the Steven Soderbergh bandwagon.
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Guardians of the Galaxy and The Marvel Method
With Guardians of the Galaxy, Marvel continues to construct a sequential tapestry by drawing upon comics' sense of interconnectivity and hyperdiegetic expansion.
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The Guardians of Good Taste: Critics and the “Fanboy” Menace
Why do critics claim that only "fanboys" can make sense of Guardians of the Galaxy?
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