Glee has garnered ardent fans, or Gleeks, around the world. Just as notable, it appears to have been embraced as particularly American. What is it about the series that has inspired this phenomenon?
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For the Love of Glee
Auteurism vs. Superhero Synergy
Warner Bros. and DC have handed the keys to the kingdom to Christopher Nolan. Is there a downside?
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Lost Wednesdays: Revving Up the Engine
Explosions, vehicular manslaughter, and throwing someone down a well make for a satisfying hour - but the real fun is in true love's kiss.
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Something’s Rotten in the State of Heterosexual Love?
The Second City's "Sassy Gay Friend" Shakespeare videos have received over 2 million hits to date. Why are they so popular?
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We’re Running Out of Time!
With only eight hours left, 24 dies as it lived--made up as it goes along.
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Lost Wednesdays: Our Scottish Savior
Will Desmond deliver the payoffs we've been hoping for? Or are we still searching for The One?
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The Best Remote Control $700 Can Buy: First Impressions of the Apple iPad
I beta tested the first generation of the Apple iPad, so that you don't have to.
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Discursive Disintegration
Politically engaged, “discursively integrated” comedy has become quite the buzz topic both within the television industry as well as the academy, with all sorts of attention being paid to programs like South Park, The Colbert Report, The Daily Show etc. Nowhere is this expectation for up-to-the-minute political satire made more apparent than in...
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SCMS + SXSW = ?
Media studies stands to gain from the consideration and analysis of new media and vice versa. Bringing two major conferences together, SCMS and SXSW Interactive, and seeing what that gets us seems like as good a place to start as any.
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Lost Wednesdays: A Bug and a Package
Does the package contain a giant red V? And which will annoy fans more - the plot or the promotion?
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Transforming The Academy’s Female Winners into Losers
The proposition that the Academy’s female winners are in a more profound sense losers has emerged as a media talking point.
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Lost Wednesdays: The Cork Island
Can we find the answers we need in the island's backstory? And can Richard choose sides?
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Lost Wednesdays: Sawyer Becomes Starsky
What if Sawyer never got a pen? He would have become Starsky.
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Adventures in Music Video
On the heels of the popularity of the Rube Goldberg video for “This Too Shall Pass,” OK Go announced that it was leaving an already beleaguered EMI to establish its own label Paracadute Recordings. Quickly a story emerged treating OK Go as the musical David fighting the evil Goliath of EMI.
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WWE’s Blind Eye Principle and the Prospects for a Second Monday Night War
Throughout its history, WWE has consistently turned a blind eye to its competition, but can TNA force it to break this principle, and create a second Monday Night War?
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