After just over six years in business, Antenna is done. Goodbye and thanks!
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Goodbye to Antenna
The Force Re-Awakens: Star Wars, Repetition, and Nostalgia, Part 2
In Part 2 of 2, it's asked what repetition or originality even mean in a sequel, and how The Force Awakens is "nostalgic."
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The Force Re-Awakens: Star Wars, Repetition, and Nostalgia, Part 1
What's new about The Force Awakens? Amidst criticisms of the film's adherence to A New Hope, is it all just repetition?
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Fall Premieres 2015: The Best and the Worst
What have been the best and the worst new additions to TV this Fall?
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Fall Premieres 2015: Halftime Report
With 57 reviews of 30 shows so far, what's good and what's not?
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Sesame Street’s New Landlord
What does HBO's deal with Sesame Workshop mean for Cookie, HBO, PBS, and their audiences?
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Honoring Hilmes: Best. Colleague. Ever.
An ode to collegiality.
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The Peabody Awards and Dialogic Declarations of Value
Media and cultural studies is right to be concerned about singular, monologic declarations of value, but there’s something to be learned from the Peabodys’ mode of deciding upon value dialogically.
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Santa’s Lousy Prison Guard: The Elf on the Shelf
If The Elf on the Shelf is trying to set up a panopticon, he's doing it all wrong.
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Announcing a New Series: Antenna Kids
The charge for the series is simple and broad – to engage critically with media for children.
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Gloriously Back to Front: The Craft of Criticism Conference
A report on the recent Craft of Criticism conference at University of Notre Dame.
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My TV Valentine: Big Block Sing Song
"Part Flight of the Conchords, part sincere, part ethnographic in their understanding of how kids’ heads work, and funny, relaxing, and ear-wormy, they are my favorite thing on television."
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What’s a Two Year-Old Girl To Do (or Watch)?
On the heels of some binge-viewing, Jonathan Gray discusses Disney Junior’s three female-centered original series
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Phishing in Open Access Waters
A few concerns about open access, and especially about the predatory journals that swim in them.
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Upfronts 2012: An A-Z of What’s New
Who gets their own show, and what can we expect, for the 2012-2013 season?
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