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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“Aren’t We Such a Fun, Approachable Dynasty?”: Clinton’s Presidential Announcement, Cable News, and the Candidate Challenge
Keep it 100: The Nightly Show Flips the Script on “Fake” News
As an obsessive fan of the genre that has become known—somewhat inaccurately—as “fake news,” I was incredibly curious to see where Larry Wilmore, the host of Comedy Central’s The Nightly Show, would take the genre. Wilmore faced the challenging task of replacing The Colbert Report, a show that had brilliantly satirized right-wing punditry. Colbert...
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Rethinking Media Distribution
Chuck Tryon discusses Jeff Ulin's latest book on media distribution, focusing on temporal and spatial considerations in a global, digital marketplace.
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“Depiction is not Endorsement”: Representing Torture in Zero Dark Thirty
Kathryn Bigelow's Zero Dark Thirty has ignited a virtual powder keg of controversy regarding its depictions of the use of torture as a means of getting information during the ten-year hunt for Osama bin Laden. Despite complaints that it justifies the use and effectiveness of torture, the film cannot be dismissed so easily.
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Accessing the Cinematic Cloud
Recent comparisons to the early experience of using an ATM seem to offer quite a bit of potential for describing how we will be buying and watching movies and television shows in the near future.
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Report from SCMS: Thursday
Many of the Thursday panels at this year's SCMS conference challenged us to take what is normally considered peripheral--DVD extras, brand logos, and TV re-broadcasts of feature films--and consider that as a central area of scholarly study. This focus is crucial to our ongoing engagement with the practices of media industries today.
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