While some may have found Ricky Gervais' pointed remarks as host of this year's Golden Globes tough to swallow, it's hard to argue with his attack on the awards' legitimacy in light of recent controversy.
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Current Events
The Gilded Globes: Legitimacy Amidst Controversy
Deracinated TV: Watching Misfits in America
Last month, I was in need of a new show. Upon the recommendation of Lainey Gossip and my Twitter feed, I decided on Misfits, a show about which I knew very little, save the following: 1.) It is British. 2.) It is about teenagers.
3.) I couldn't obtain it through strictly legal means.
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BET’s Got Game
Tonight, The Game, a sitcom originally produced for and aired on The CW, premieres its fourth season on its new home, BET. The story behind that move leaves me wondering about the future of "diversity" (whatever that might mean) on broadcast television.
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Tron’s Legacy
After an extensive pre-release campaign, and whole lot of hype, Tron: Legacy opened to a rather disappointing weekend, only generating $44 million at the box office.
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Survivor: Desert Island Politics
I had stopped watching news channels recently, and perhaps I kept watching Survivor because it became a metaphor for the political situation I was trying to avoid.
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Capitalizing on Multiculturalism: “Premium” Indian American Audiences and “American” advertisers
If we think of efforts by “American” entities to access “Indian American” spaces of culture, capital labor, and belonging as symptomatic of emergent modalities of the transnational, might we be able to see subtle shifts in the discourse of multiculturalism in the contemporary moment?
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Australian “Free” TV
Australia's digital channels pose a threat to the free-to-air channels, so how do the latter fight back?
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In Memoriam: The Late, Great Leslie Nielsen
Remembering the man Roger Ebert once called "the Olivier of spoofs."
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WikiLeaks “Bombshell”: The CBC is the Enemy
Considering the revelations which could emerge from WikiLeaks, news that U.S. Embassy Officials in Canada were vilifying CBC's fictional programming was...unexpected.
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Dancing with Democracy
While controversy is nothing new for reality TV, the political overtones of Bristol Palin's run on Dancing with the Stars illuminate the genre's tenuous relationship with the principles of democracy.
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Lessons from Los Angeles: Top Takeaways from the TV Academy (Part Two)
The second in our two-part series on the Television Academy of Arts & Sciences Foundation's faculty seminar.
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Lessons from Los Angeles: Top Takeaways from the TV Academy (Part One)
The first in our two-part series on the Television Academy of Arts & Sciences Foundation's faculty seminar.
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Not Dancing in Central Square
Last week, Viacom announced that it was planning to sell Harmonix and had already classified the Cambridge-based development studio as a “discontinued operation.”
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Late to the Party: Twin Peaks (1990-91)
Welcome to our new feature, Late to the Party. Each week, our contributors will consume and report on a canonical or otherwise significant piece of media that they have missed until now. First up: Myles McNutt on Twin Peaks.
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Your Friendly Neighborhood Araña: The State of Latinidad in Marvel Comics
Marvel Comics has quietly responded to the increased presence of Latinos in America with a corresponding, if tentative, increase in the number of Latino Marvel characters, as epitomized by this week's debut of a new Spider-Girl series starring Puerto Rican Anya Sofia Corazon.
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