The influence and overlap between the worlds of podcasting and television (and live comedy) is expanding as visual and audio media continue to fragment, making issues of narrative construction and narrative influence ripe for questioning,
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Tags: Andy Daly, Chris Hardwick, comedy, Comedy Bang Bang, comedy television, Marc Maron, Nerdist, Paul F. Tompkins, Pete Holmes, podcast, podcasting, television, The Joe Rogan Experience, TV, WTF With Marc Maron
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Why hasn’t The Wire, which showed us how structural racism and an abusive police department defines black life in Baltimore, translated into collective social action? Why are there only thousands in the streets? Where are the millions of fans of The Wire? And why aren’t they supporting black folks in Baltimore?
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Tags: #blacklivesmatter, activism, fandom, Freddie Gray, protests, The Wire
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Media and cultural studies is right to be concerned about singular, monologic declarations of value, but there’s something to be learned from the Peabodys’ mode of deciding upon value dialogically.
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Tags: awards, Peabody Awards, Peabodys, quality, Value
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Jack Newsinger reflects on the idea of bullshit jobs in the creative industries and what this might mean for pedagogy.
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Tags: bullshit jobs, creative industries, invisible labor, labor, New Labour, pedagogy
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Marvel’s Daredevil launched April 10 on Netflix, marking a new milestone for Netflix’s original content strategy and the expansion of Marvel Television into the streaming space.
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Tags: comics, Daredevil, franchise, Marvel, marvel films, Netflix
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Chuck Tryon examines the reception of Clinton’s announcement video to explore the role of cable news in producing election coverage that sidesteps questions about how candidates will actually govern.
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Tags: cable news, Daily Show, elections, Fox News, Hillary Clinton, reality television, satire
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Supporting vigilante documentary as an acceptable approach to seeking "justice" is a potentially dangerous trend.
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Tags: andrew jarecki, documentary, HBO, television, the jinx, vigilante
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Ross Melnick provides historical context necessary to understand the prevalence of talent programs on contemporary American network television.
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Tags: amateur, Amateur Hour, Major Bowes, Roxy, Roxy and his Gang, Samuel Roxy Rothafel, The Capitol, Variety, WEAF
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Alfred Martin asks why NBC turned to The Wiz over The Music Man as its next televised musical in this particular historical moment?
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Tags: adaptation, liveness, musicals, NBC, niche audiences, spectaculars, The Wiz
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Using the case of Game of Thrones, Iain Robert Smith considers what happens to fidelity criticism when a show goes beyond the published material and starts to “adapt” material that has been planned but not yet written by the original author.
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Tags: adaptation, convergence, Game of Thrones, George R.R. Martin, novels, seriality, television
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Piers Britton reflects on the unacknowledged divergences in use of the term “aesthetic” within television studies, and suggests that some of the elisions are leading to unproductive argument.
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Tags: Aesthetics, Mad Men, media aesthetics, Sherlock, television
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Karen Petruska reflects on the importance of conference participation in the form of SIGs, committees, and public policy and promotion, all of which operate as the less visible yet vital backbone of SCMS.
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Tags: Aca-Media, academic conference, academic service work, media industries, media studies, scholarly interest groups, Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Teaching Dossier
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Collenn Glenn reports on the significance of specialized scholarly interest groups for academic organizations like the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS), which held its annual conference in Montreal last week.
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Tags: 9/11, academic conference, media studies, scholarly interest groups, SCMS, SCMS15, Society for Cinema and Media Studies, War
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Derek Long continues our series of SCMS 2015 conference reports with a summary and assessment of some of the digitally-oriented panels and presentations.
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Tags: academic conference, DHSCMS, digital humanities, digital scholarship, Jean Desmet, media studies, Project Arclight, SCMS15, Society for Cinema and Media Studies
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