Li Cornfeld reports on the 2015 Startup Battlefield competition at TechCrunch Disrupt San Fransisco, and critiques the neoliberal underpinnings of subjecting creators of innovative technologies for diverse industrial sectors to restrictive and uniform presentational paradigms.
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Tags: Agrilyst, conferences, Neoliberalism, Silicon Valley, Startup Battlefield, TechCrunch, TechCrunch Disrupt
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In the first installment of a four-part series on the 2015 New York Film Festival, Martha P. Nochimson argues that Kyoshi Kurosawa's Journey to the Shore and Miguel Gomes' Arabian Nights trilogy dissolve the boundaries between life and death, then and now, and here and there.
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Tags: Arabian Nights, Cinema Journal, Journey to the Shore, Kyoshi Kurosawa, Miguel Gomes, New York Film Festival 2015
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With 57 reviews of 30 shows so far, what's good and what's not?
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Tags: Fall Premieres, pilots, premieres
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Nandana Bose unmasks the postmillennial Bollywood superhero to reveal a bricolage of transnational intertexts.
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Tags: Bollywood, franchise, Hindi cinema, Krrish, Ra.One, superhero movies, superheroes, transnational
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As a teacher-scholar, Courtney Brannon Donoghue observes how the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) serves as a microcosm for understanding contemporary media industries where activities span production, distribution, and exhibition as well as reflect the evolving nature of film festivals.
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Tags: Black Mass, Deniz Gamze Ergüven, Mustang, My Name is Emily, Platform, Ridley Scott, Room, Scott Cooper, Simon Fitzmaurice, The Martian, Toronto International Film Festival
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Antenna's reviewers give A-F grades to ABC
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Tags: ABC, Blood and Oil, Dr. Ken, Fall Premieres, pilots, premieres, Quantico, Reviews, The Muppets
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Rebecca Adelman on the photos of drowned 3-year-old Syrian refugee Aylan Kurdi, questions of ethical spectatorship, and how much of the debate surrounding the images obscures the complexities inherent in any act of looking at casualty photos.
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Tags: Aylan Kurdi, clicktivism, journalism, photography, spectatorship, Syria
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Antenna's reviewers rate FOX's disinterment of Fred Savage, Minority Report, Jamie Lee Curtis, and John Stamos
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Tags: Fall Premieres, FOX, Grandfathered, Minority Report, pilots, premieres, Reviews, Rosewood, Scream Queens, The Grinder
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Antenna's reviewers consider CBS' new shows, none of which miraculously are CSI or NCIS spinoffs, and The CW's Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
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Tags: CBS, Code Black, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, CW, Fall Premieres, Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Life in Pieces, Limitless, pilots, premieres, Reviews
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A roundtable discussion on The Carmichael Show by Phillip Cunningham, Alfred Martin, and Khadijah Costley White.
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Tags: blackness, Carmichael Show, class, NBC, race, sitcom, sitcoms, The Carmichael Show
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We'll never know exactly why anyone wins Emmys, but the process weighed heavily in HBO's dominance at this year's ceremony.
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Tags: 2015, Analysis, awards, Emmy Awards, Emmys, Game of Thrones, HBO, Jon Hamm, television, TV, Veep, Viola Davis, Voting, Winners
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Geoffrey Baym, Amber Day, Nicholas Marx, Chuck Tryon and Dannagal Young discuss Stephen Colbert's first week in the new job.
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Tags: CBS, Colbert, comedy, Late Show, Late Show with Stephen Colbert, political entertainment, satire, Stephen Colbert
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DC Comics must move beyond its traditional business model if it really wants to attract new readers.
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Tags: audiences, bradley schauer, business models, comics, DC Comics
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Antenna's reviewers measure up The Peacock's new shows.
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Tags: Best Time Ever, Blindspot, Carmichael Show, Fall Premieres, Heroes Reborn, NBC, pilots, premieres, Reviews, The Player, Truth Be Told
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Antenna's reviewers address new reality and variety programming from MTV, PBS, Syfy, Lifetime, ABC Family, truTV, Comedy Central, TLC, and Travel Channel
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Tags: ABC Family, Adam Ruins Everything, Bazillion Dollar Club, comedy central, Daily Show with Trevor Noah, Fall Premieres, Fashionably Late with Rachel Zoe, I'll Have What Phil's Having, Lifetime, Monica the Medium, MTV, PBS, pilots, premieres, Reviews, Road Spill, Suddenly Royal, Syfy, The Brain with David Eagleman, TLC, Todrick, Travel Channel, truTV, Uncommon Grounds
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