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Its the pairing of disrepute with respectability that makes the BET Awards akin to a Black Family reunion.
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The 2012 BET Awards as [Black] Family Reunion
Outing Anderson: Our Cultural Coming Out Imperative
Anderson Cooper addressed his sexuality in a letter that demonstrates a new, old reason to come out: to break down invisibility and become a model for queer youth.
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Diet by Disney?
The new "Mickey Check" logo for "Disney-approved" licensed food and beverage products is merely a new take on an old (and problematic) approach.
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Gazes, Pleasure, and the Failure of Magic Mike
Though it's marketed as a film that promotes the female gaze, Magic Mike's message is a reprimand and a ridicule of the very women whose money it desperately seeks.
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Why Little Mosque Matters [Part 5]
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Why does Little Mosque matter to viewers, and why does it matter to television scholars?
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Mascot Media: Framing the London Olympics
London 2012 Olympic mascots Wenlock and Mandeville reveal the changing way that media brands, including the Olympics, are seeking to reconstruct themselves for the converged digital media environment.
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It’s the Euros, stupid!
A preview of the European Football Championship quarterfinal between Greece and Germany.
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Little Mosque on the Prairie: Jokes and the Contradictions of the Sitcom [Part 3]
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The conventions of the sitcom that Little Mosque on the Prairie adopted often worked at cross-purposes with humor’s potential to draw people’s assumptions about the world into question.
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FOX Formula 3.0?: TBS, Cougar Town, and the Disappearing Televisual Black Body
TBS’ agreement to air new episodes of Cougar Town may signal the next network to employ the "Fox Formula" whereby market share is built courting black viewership, only to be discarded once a critical mass of mainstream viewership is attained.
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On Prometheus and post-television cinema
Is Ridley Scott’s Prometheus a half-baked pile of philosophical babble, or is it more seductively an early harbinger of a kind of post-television cinematic narrative—filmmaking in the age of television?
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Little Mosque on the Prairie: How Little Mosque Found a Home [Part 2]
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The various people involved in Little Mosque’s production were positioned differently in the communities between which they were mediating, and as a consequence, the factors that influenced their creative decisions differed, too.
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Little Mosque on the Prairie: Humor as a Medium of Translation [Part 1]
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Kyle Conway begins a multi-part series exploring the production of Little Mosque on the Prairie, a CBC sitcom set to debut in the U.S. on Hulu this month.
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Report from the ATX Television Festival
What is a “television festival”? What might such an event look like? The answers emerged at the ATX Television Festival, held in downtown Austin, TX from June 1st to 3rd.
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The Cancellation of GCB and the Continued Discomfort with Televisual Camp
GCB represents ABC's recent attempt to incorporate camp aesthetics into a prime-time commodity, a gamble that ultimately was too risky for the network.
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Mom Enough?: The Return of the Absentee Mother as Threat
There is nothing necessarily new about a character's surprising return, but the particular attention to the absent mother taps into a current and contentious discourse of motherhood: attachment parenting.
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