Antenna contributors consider the 2012 Fall Premieres from NBC.
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[UPDATED] Fall Premieres 2012: NBC
Reality Gendervision Conference CFP
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
Part one in a series on "The Wisconsin Discourses."
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The Flow Conference Committee is accepting roundtable response submissions through July 13.
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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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