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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Tags: Aesthetics, affect, Casino Royale, chase scenes, convergence, cultural studies, Inception, James Bond, media aesthetics, media studies, Remediation, The Matrix Reoloaded, translation
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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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Tags: acafandom, Aesthetics, Aristotle, audiences, CCCS, cultural studies, david bordwell, encoding/decoding, media aesthetics, media studies, Nationwide, Richard Hoggart, Rudolf Arnheim, Shawn VanCour, spreadability
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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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Tags: Anthony Bourdain, foodie, Grand Forks, Grand Forks Herald, Le Bernardin, Marilyn Hagerty, North Dakota, Olive Garden, Raymond Williams
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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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Tags: Al Gore, Al Jazeera, Antoine Berman, cable television, Current TV, Daily Show, Danny Schechter, Fox News, Qatar
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Why does Little Mosque matter to viewers, and why does it matter to television scholars?
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Tags: CBC, comedy, Islam, Little Mosque on the Prairie, production culture, religion, sitcom
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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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Tags: CBC, distribution, Hulu, Islam, Little Mosque on the Prairie, religion
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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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Tags: CBC, comedy, jokes, Little Mosque on the Prairie, sitcom
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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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Tags: canada, CBC, Little Mosque on the Prairie, multiculturalism, production culture, regionalism, religion, sitcom
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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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Tags: CBC, comedy, Little Mosque on the Prairie, religion, sitcom
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