David Simon's Treme returns this Sunday for its second season. Antenna will be following all of the action with a weekly column on the program to be published each Wednesday.
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Columns
The Big Easy Returns to the Small Screen
What Are You Missing? April 3-16
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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What Are You Missing? Mar 20-April 2
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Watching the World’s Amazing Races
What I find frustrating about the show is not simply that it ends up Othering the world, but that it could be so much better. It’s like a B student who writes occasionally brilliant sentences, yet who isn’t trying hard enough.
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So It’s Come to This: An Antenna Clips Show
It’s Spring Break for us here, hence a slowdown in publishing. But just like any bad sitcom, there’s always the clip show, so we thought we’d remind you of what’s been published here this year.
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What Are You Missing? March 6 – 19
Ten (or more) media industry stories you might have missed recently.
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Report from SCMS: Saturday, Sunday, and Beyond
While there have been a number of diverse responses to this year’s SCMS, a substantial portion of the discussion boils down to this central question: why do we attend academic conferences?
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Report from SCMS: Friday
Two days in and SCMS 2011 has already proved an amazing experience.
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Report From SCMS: Thursday
The Antenna editors have asked some writers to contribute daily reports on the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) conference in New Orleans this week. First up: a Thursday report from Christine Becker, focusing primarily on the SCMS website workshop.
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The State of Reality TV: Producing Reality on Joan & Melissa
WE's new series, produced by and starring Joan & Melissa Rivers draws attention to the artifice of reality TV, but in the fourth episode, the mask slips and reveals something that may be...possibly...perhaps..."real"...
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What Are You Missing? February 13-26
Ten (or more) media industry stories you might have missed recently.
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Compulsory Masculinity on The Jersey Shore
The oppression of women is a daily activity for the men of the Jersey Shore, but so is the production of male beauty and labor in the domestic sphere.
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“We are Wisconsin”: Building Collective Identity in the Wisconsin Protests
As I have joined in the vibrant, energetic, and peaceful demonstrations against the Budget Repair Bill at the Wisconsin State Capitol, I have been struck by how those demonstrating have constituted a collective identity for themselves as Wisconsinites.
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Public Protest and Public Screens
I’m reminded of an argument made by rhetoric scholars Kevin DeLuca and Jennifer Peeples that we need to rethink the notion of the public sphere because so much of our democratic enactments happen not in a sphere, but on what they call the “public screen.”
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Embodied Voices and the Protests in Madison
The protests in Madison have demonstrated forcefully the power of an alternative to the opinion poll, an embodied voice of the people.
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