With religion on fictional television growing, why is it so difficult for press and PR to acknowledge this shift within the industry?
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Straddling the “Edge”: The Invisible Trend of Religion on TV
Report from: Generation(s) of Television Studies
The Generation(s) of Television Studies symposium, held at the University of Georgia, made visible just how influential Horace Newcomb has been to the field.
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Mom Enough?: The Return of the Absentee Mother as Threat
There is nothing necessarily new about a character's surprising return, but the particular attention to the absent mother taps into a current and contentious discourse of motherhood: attachment parenting.
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Award Winning: The 84th Annual Academy Awards
This year posed a strongly economic undercurrent to the Oscar's traditional nostalgia.
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SAG Awards Drink to Scorsese, Celebrate Union Merger
The Screen Actors Guild Awards are a bit of an oddity among the standard awards shows. They don’t have the glamour of the Oscars–though perhaps they do have a higher concentration of movie stars–and following so closely after the Golden Globes, their revelry appears more in the realm of office party than gala event....
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