Can we find the answers we need in the island's backstory? And can Richard choose sides?
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Lost Wednesdays: The Cork Island
Report from SCMS: Saturday
In addition to granting Midwesterners like me the chance to reintroduce the concept of sunshine to our bare arms, another one of the advantageous by-products of the Los Angeles setting for the SCMS conference this year has been the opportunity for film and TV industry professionals to join our discussions. Saturday’s sessions offered the...
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Report from SCMS: Friday, aka Humpday in LA
The third day of SCMS 2010 has passed and Friday is our humpday. And, yes, I am over the hump with some midway thoughts… 1) SCMS is big and small at the same time – This is my fifteenth year since my first SCMS and I see a lot of the same faces I...
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Report from SCMS: Thursday
Many of the Thursday panels at this year's SCMS conference challenged us to take what is normally considered peripheral--DVD extras, brand logos, and TV re-broadcasts of feature films--and consider that as a central area of scholarly study. This focus is crucial to our ongoing engagement with the practices of media industries today.
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Report from SCMS: Wednesday
The Antenna editors have asked some writers to contribute daily reports on the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) conference in Los Angeles this week. First up--a Wednesday report from Derek Kompare.
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Lost Wednesdays: Sawyer Becomes Starsky
What if Sawyer never got a pen? He would have become Starsky.
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What Are You Missing? March 1-13
Ten (or more) media industry stories you might have missed recently
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Lost Wednesdays: Ben the Follower
Michael Emerson struts out his A-game in what might be the most pleasurable Lost season six episode yet
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What Do You Think? Framing the Olympics
Which frames bugged you, and which roped you in?
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Lost Wednesdays: Smokey and the Torturer
No lists, no cryptic new locations, but Smokey & Sayid opening a can of whup-ass on the temple means a fun time is in store.
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What Are You Missing? February 14-28
Ten (or more) media industry stories you might have missed recently
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Lost Wednesdays: Good Times at the Caves
Another week brings revelations that don't feel like revelations - when will we know what we know?
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Lost Wednesday: Substitute Fanboy
Is Jacob the mystical SysOp of Lostpedia? Or is he just a teacher looking for a substitute?
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What Are You Missing? February 1-13
Ten (or more) media industry stories you might have missed recently
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Lost Wednesday: Table Setting
One of my favorite television critics, Alan Sepinwall, ended his review of this week’s Lost with this spot-on reflection: Mainly, though, “What Kate Does” was a table-setting episode. I can see lots of things introduced here paying off interestingly down the road, maybe even as soon as next week, but there wasn’t enough meat...
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