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[UPDATED] Fall Premieres 2012: NBC

September 13, 2012
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[UPDATED] Fall Premieres 2012: NBC

Antenna contributors consider the 2012 Fall Premieres from NBC.
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Reality Gendervision Conference CFP

September 7, 2012
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Reality Gendervision: Sexuality and Gender on Reality TV Conference, on April 26-27, 2013, at Indiana University.
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Revisiting the Political Dimensions of John Fiske’s Work

September 5, 2012
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Revisiting the Political Dimensions of John Fiske’s Work

Part one in a series on "The Wisconsin Discourses."
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Save “Their” Show: Public Appeals of Studio Campaigning

August 28, 2012
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Save “Their” Show: Public Appeals of Studio Campaigning

As DirecTV, Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon emerge as players in content distribution, we are seeing evidence of active campaigning by production studios finding new homes for their canceled shows.
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The Face (and Laugh) that Launched a Thousand Bits

August 27, 2012
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The Face (and Laugh) that Launched a Thousand Bits

A farewell to Phyllis Diller from a reverent scholar-fan.
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“You Want Me to Be Anderson Cooper”: Negotiating Queer Visibility on Husbands

August 23, 2012
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“You Want Me to Be Anderson Cooper”: Negotiating Queer Visibility on <i>Husbands</i>

Beyond the issue of depicting same-sex intimacy, Husbands does not really challenge the current norms of queer visibility.
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Pinning Postfeminism

August 21, 2012
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Pinning Postfeminism

The "pins" on display on Pinterest demonstrate postfeminism in their mixed messages regarding contemporary femininity.
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Little England: The London 2012 Closing Ceremony

August 14, 2012
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Little England: The London 2012 Closing Ceremony

If the opening ceremony for the 2012 Olympics was full of sound and fury, the closing ceremony signified nothing.
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Being British: The London 2012 Opening Ceremony

July 27, 2012
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Being British: The London 2012 Opening Ceremony

For all intents, the Britishness that gets replaced with Englishness in the ceremony promises to be a specific kind of Englishness.
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Scripting the Olympic Games

July 26, 2012
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Scripting the Olympic Games

Two scripted BBC shows this week drew entertainment value from connections to the real London 2012.
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Dark Knight Myths and Meanings

July 22, 2012
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Dark Knight Myths and Meanings

Dark Knight Rises is about the fragility of definitions, the limits of structures, and the illusion of binary oppositions.
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It’s Showtime: Mitt Romney’s Speech to the NAACP

July 14, 2012
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It’s Showtime: Mitt Romney’s Speech to the NAACP

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's boo-worthy comments demonstrate his--and by extension, the Republican party's--stubborn incomprehension of the political, cultural, and historical issues within the African American community.
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Campaign Contributions: “Mainstreaming” the Emmy Race

July 13, 2012
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Campaign Contributions: “Mainstreaming” the Emmy Race

While usually confined to niche websites, the Emmy nomination race broke into mainstream outlets as digital pages are turned over to Emmy contenders in exchange for potential advertising revenue.
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2012 Flow Conference Call for Responses

July 9, 2012
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2012 Flow Conference Call for Responses

The Flow Conference Committee is accepting roundtable response submissions through July 13.
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What Bill Nye Should Have Said

July 7, 2012
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What Bill Nye Should Have Said

The problem with Carol Costello and other purveyors of manufactroversies is not that they are engaging in debate about climate change, but that they're debating the wrong thing.
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