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What Are You Missing? Jan 13 – Jan 26
From Mercury to Mars: After the Martians: The Invasion of “Daytime” in the War of the Worlds Controversy
In this final post in our series From Mercury to Mars: Orson Welles on Radio after 75 Years, Jennifer Hyland Wang analyzes how responses to the War of the Worlds broadcast exposed much of the gender and class discourses underpinning the American Broadcasting system.
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From Mercury to Mars: Vox Orson
The From Mercury to Mars series continues today with a new post from Murray Pomerance about Orson Welles' voice.
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Google’s Aesthetic Turn: One Simple Beautiful Useful Google
In this latest entry in the Aesthetic Turn series, Megan Sapnar Ankerson explores how Google's aesthetic shift from "transparency" to "beauty" serves as a site for critical engagement with the aesthetics of digital artifacts.
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What Are You Missing? Dec 30 – Jan 12
Back from the break, here are ten or more media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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From Mercury to Mars: The Shadow of the Great Detective: Orson Welles and Sherlock Holmes on the Air
The Antenna-Sounding Out! series From Mercury to Mars: Orson Welles on Radio after 75 Years continues on into the new year with a post on Sounding Out! from A. Brad Schwartz about the influence of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories on Orson Welles' radio work.
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Negotiating Authorship: Showrunners on Twitter VI
Twitter serves not only as a platform for high-profile showrunners, but also a space where more nuanced television authorship is negotiated by writer-producers.
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The Aesthetic Turn: In Search of the Pictorial Intelligence
Colin Burnett continues our Aesthetic Turn series with a call to revise our thinking about moving image intelligence beyond just language and verbal systems of thought.
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The Cultural Lives of Doctor Who: The Hype of the Doctor
In this final post in Antenna's The Cultural Lives of Doctor Who series, Matt Hills looks at the promotion and marketing that's occurred around the Doctor Who franchise across 2013.
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From Mercury to Mars: The Legacy of War of the Worlds: What Happened Here?
In this latest post in our ongoing series From Mercury to Mars: Orson Welles on Radio after 75 Years, Michele Hilmes ponders the relative absence of innovation in American radio drama over the past three decades.
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The Best Show on WFMU: 2000-2013
Some reflections on The Best Show on WFMU as it ends its thirteen-year run.
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The Cultural Lives of Doctor Who: Doctor Whose Fandom?
In this penultimate post in our The Cultural Lives of Doctor Who series, Pam Wojcik argues that female Doctor Who fans are the ur-fans of the series, the original targeted audience and point of identification within the show.
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What Are You Missing? Nov 25 – Dec 8
Ten or more media industry news items you might have missed recently
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The Cultural Lives of Doctor Who: Of Anniversaries and Authenticity, Costumes and Canon
In this latest entry in The Cultural Lives of Doctor Who series, Piers Britton discusses the use of costume as a marker of authenticity in "The Name of the Doctor" and its many ramifications for Who tradition and canon.
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The Aesthetic Turn: Media Aesthetics: Color for the Where and How
In this latest entry in The Aesthetic Turn series, Carolyn Kane looks to color and color studies to provide a fresh and unique lens to articulate a theory of media aesthetics.
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