Antenna's reviewers consider Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, and Crackle's new original programming
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Tags: Casual, Fall Premieres, Hand of God, Narcos, pilots, premieres, Red Oaks, Reviews, Super Mansion
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Antenna's reviewers evaluate the latest scripted offerings from Disney XD, FX, AMC, TNT, PBS, Comedy Central, and IFC
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Tags: AMC, American Horror Story: Hotel, Bastard Executioner, Benders, comedy central, Disney XD, Fall Premieres, Fargo, Fear the Walking Dead, FX, IFC, Indian Summers, Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy, Moonbeam City, PBS, Pickle and Peanut, pilots, premieres, Public Morals, Reviews, The Last Kingdom, TNT
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Antenna's Fall pilot/premiere reviews are back. This page can serve as your portal to all reviews
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Tags: Fall Premieres, Fall TV, pilots, premieres, Reviews
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Mary Beth Haralovich reports on her experience at the Telluride Film Festival.
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Tags: Battle of the Century, Beasts of No Nation, Carol, cinema, Danny Boyle, Die Niebelungen, Eddie Cayhono, Eric Khoo, Fritz Lang, He Named Me Malala, Ixcanul, Jafar Panahi, Jayra Bustamente, Laurel and Hardy, L’inhumaine, Marcel L’Herbier, Paolo Cherchi Usai, Participant Media, Peter Sellars, Picture, Pierre Rissient, Rachel Kushner, Siti, Spotlight, Steve Jobs, Taxi, Telluride Film Festival, Todd Haynes
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In the second installment of his two-part series on the state of comic book film adaptations, Mark Gallagher critiques their exploitation of fans' good will, as will as the strain it places on media industry talent and trade coverage.
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Tags: Avengers, blockbusters, captain america, comic books, DC, fandom, Fantastic Four, Hollywood, Iron Man, Marvel, superhero movies, Thor
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In part one of a two-part series on the state of comic book film and television franchises, Mark Gallagher criticizes their exploitation of esoterica and origin stories.
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Tags: Avengers, blockbusters, captain america, comic books, DC, fandom, Fantastic Four, Hollywood, Iron Man, Marvel, superhero movies, Thor
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Announcement of national conference for the Radio Preservation Task Force of the Library of Congress, February 25-27, 2016.
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Tags: #RPTF, academic conference, Alan Lomax, Christopher Sterling, Library of Congress, media history, National Recording Preservation Board, NPR, Pacifica, prometheus radio, public radio, Radio Preservation Task Force, radio studies, smithsonian, smithsonian folklife, sound studies, studs terkel, third coast
Posted in Columns, Radio Preservation Task Force | 1 Comment »
Offering first impressions of Narcos, Kristina Busse discusses its layered framing, use of original footage, and language and accent.
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Tags: history, language, Narcos, Netflix
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Mark Lashley notes the rise of fan podcasts within the comedy community by discussing Adam Scott and Scott Aukerman's U Talkin' U2 To Me, and the ways in which performances of fandom are complicated by the hosts' celebrity and industry connections.
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Tags: Adam Scott, fandom, Kumail Nanjiani, podcast, podcasting, Scott Aukerman, The X-Files Files, U Talkin' U2 To Me?, U2, WTF With Marc Maron
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Jason Loviglio reports from the Podcast Movement 2015 industry conference, providing a state-of-the-industry rundown that includes the divide between professional radio broadcaster "Pro-casters" and amateur "Podcasters" and the shared discourse of podcasting-as-rebirth.
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Tags: 99% Invisible, Entrepreneur on Fire, John Lee Dumas, Lea Thau, Marc Maron, media industries, Nikki Silva, Podcast Movement, Podcasters Paradise, podcasting, PodClear, PRX, public radio, Radio Ambulante, radio studies, Radiotopia, Roman Mars, Smart Passive Money, The Kitchen Sisters, The Moth
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