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In this latest entry in The Aesthetic Turn series, Kyle Conway considers the aesthetic experience of media, using translation and metaphor to turn our attention away from the object and toward our experience of media in the age of convergence.
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In this inaugural post in Antenna's new series on cultural studies and media aesthetics, "The Aesthetic Turn," Kyle Conway queries media's experiential dimensions.
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Discussing Hagerty's new Anthony Bourdain-endorsed book, Kyle Conway ruminates on taste, humor, and geography in the post-modern era.
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The sale of U.S. cable station Current TV to the Qatar-based news network Al Jazeera raises questions about how a foreign network might explain Americans to themselves. Might Al Jazeera provide a foreign lens for Americans to examine themselves? What would that even look like?
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Why does Little Mosque matter to viewers, and why does it matter to television scholars?
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Program buyers in over ninety countries thought their audiences would find Little Mosque worth watching, but the upcoming Hulu premiere is the first time the show had U.S. distribution.
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The conventions of the sitcom that Little Mosque on the Prairie adopted often worked at cross-purposes with humor’s potential to draw people’s assumptions about the world into question.
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The various people involved in Little Mosque’s production were positioned differently in the communities between which they were mediating, and as a consequence, the factors that influenced their creative decisions differed, too.
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Kyle Conway begins a multi-part series exploring the production of Little Mosque on the Prairie, a CBC sitcom set to debut in the U.S. on Hulu this month.
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