What's new in Amanda Lotz and Timothy Havens' Understanding Media Industries 2?
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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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Tags: A New Hope, franchise, nostalgia, pastiche, reboot, repetition, sequel, Star Wars, The Force Awakens
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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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Tags: A New Hope, Finn, franchise, Han Solo, JJ Abrams, Kylo Ren, Leia, Luke, nostalgia, repetition, Rey, Star Wars, The Force Awakens
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With 57 reviews of 30 shows so far, what's good and what's not?
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Antenna's reviewers give A-F grades to ABC
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Tags: ABC, Blood and Oil, Dr. Ken, Fall Premieres, pilots, premieres, Quantico, Reviews, The Muppets
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Antenna's reviewers consider CBS' new shows, none of which miraculously are CSI or NCIS spinoffs, and The CW's Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
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Geoffrey Baym, Amber Day, Nicholas Marx, Chuck Tryon and Dannagal Young discuss Stephen Colbert's first week in the new job.
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Tags: CBS, Colbert, comedy, Late Show, Late Show with Stephen Colbert, political entertainment, satire, Stephen Colbert
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DC Comics must move beyond its traditional business model if it really wants to attract new readers.
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Tags: audiences, bradley schauer, business models, comics, DC Comics
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Antenna's reviewers measure up The Peacock's new shows.
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Tags: Best Time Ever, Blindspot, Carmichael Show, Fall Premieres, Heroes Reborn, NBC, pilots, premieres, Reviews, The Player, Truth Be Told
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Antenna's reviewers address new reality and variety programming from MTV, PBS, Syfy, Lifetime, ABC Family, truTV, Comedy Central, TLC, and Travel Channel
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Tags: ABC Family, Adam Ruins Everything, Bazillion Dollar Club, comedy central, Daily Show with Trevor Noah, Fall Premieres, Fashionably Late with Rachel Zoe, I'll Have What Phil's Having, Lifetime, Monica the Medium, MTV, PBS, pilots, premieres, Reviews, Road Spill, Suddenly Royal, Syfy, The Brain with David Eagleman, TLC, Todrick, Travel Channel, truTV, Uncommon Grounds
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Antenna's reviewers consider Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, and Crackle's new original programming
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Antenna's reviewers evaluate the latest scripted offerings from Disney XD, FX, AMC, TNT, PBS, Comedy Central, and IFC
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Tags: AMC, American Horror Story: Hotel, Bastard Executioner, Benders, comedy central, Disney XD, Fall Premieres, Fargo, Fear the Walking Dead, FX, IFC, Indian Summers, Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy, Moonbeam City, PBS, Pickle and Peanut, pilots, premieres, Public Morals, Reviews, The Last Kingdom, TNT
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Antenna's Fall pilot/premiere reviews are back. This page can serve as your portal to all reviews
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Tags: Fall Premieres, Fall TV, pilots, premieres, Reviews
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Offering first impressions of Narcos, Kristina Busse discusses its layered framing, use of original footage, and language and accent.
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The Ashley Madison data breach and Rentboy's federally mandated closure underline Americans' ongoing problems with intimacy and digital technology and ultimately function as flare-ups in a perennial debate about whom and how people should desire and be.
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Tags: Ashley Madison, data breach, digital technology, hacks, intimacy, Obergefell v. Hodges, Rentboy, right to privacy
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