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The Aesthetic Turn: How Media Translate, or, Why Do I Like Chase Scenes?

November 6, 2013
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The Aesthetic Turn: How Media Translate, or, Why Do I Like Chase Scenes?

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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The Aesthetic Turn: Cultural Studies and the Question of Aesthetic Experience

October 23, 2013
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The Aesthetic Turn: Cultural Studies and the Question of Aesthetic Experience

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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Marilyn Hagerty Once Mentioned Me in a Column

September 27, 2013
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Marilyn Hagerty Once Mentioned Me in a Column

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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Current TV, Al Jazeera America, and the Experience of the Foreign

January 29, 2013
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Current TV, Al Jazeera America, and the Experience of the Foreign

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 Little Mosque Matters [Part 5]

June 28, 2012
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Why Little Mosque Matters [Part 5]

Why does Little Mosque matter to viewers, and why does it matter to television scholars?
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Little Mosque on the Prairie and the Challenges of Distribution [Part 4]

June 26, 2012
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Little Mosque on the Prairie and the Challenges of Distribution [Part 4]

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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Little Mosque on the Prairie: Jokes and the Contradictions of the Sitcom [Part 3]

June 21, 2012
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Little Mosque on the Prairie: Jokes and the Contradictions of the Sitcom [Part 3]

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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Little Mosque on the Prairie: How Little Mosque Found a Home [Part 2]

June 14, 2012
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Little Mosque on the Prairie: How Little Mosque Found a Home [Part 2]

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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Little Mosque on the Prairie: Humor as a Medium of Translation [Part 1]

June 12, 2012
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Little Mosque on the Prairie: Humor as a Medium of Translation [Part 1]

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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