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An Entourage Movie? Why?
The Advertisements of Super Bowl XLVII: On Dodge’s ‘Farmer’
This wasn't such an interesting Super Bowl in terms of commercials, but one spot for the Ram truck line stood out to us. Was there an ad that seemed particularly notable to you?
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Current TV, Al Jazeera America, and the Experience of the Foreign
The sale of U.S. cable station Current TV to the Qatar-based news network Al Jazeera raises questions about how a foreign network might explain Americans to themselves. Might Al Jazeera provide a foreign lens for Americans to examine themselves? What would that even look like?
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The Soaps Rise Again?
Despite hard times and dire predictions for U.S. daytime soap operas in recent years, the present moment has in fact turned out to be one of the more exciting and promising in the genre's history.
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Production Mythology, Release Reality: Syfy’s Defiance
While a complex production mythology makes Syfy's ambitious transmedia series/game Defiance unique, the first of two parts explores how this mythology also breeds uncertainty as the franchise's April debut nears.
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A Merry Queer Christmas: Queering Rudolph, the Red Nosed Reindeer
Rudolph was created when gayness as identity was rarely represented on screens, instead shunned off into the shadowy world of coded meanings waiting to be activated by knowing readers or “appearing” as semiotic excess waiting to be queered through the practice of camp.
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Nick Moms vs. NickMom
Nick Jr.'s new NickMom lineup fits with its brand but ends up missing the mark with a core segment of its audience, highlighting the ambivalence surrounding contemporary representations of motherhood.
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Officially Defeated: On the Broader Significance of the NFL Referee Lockout
The referee lockout has been resolved, but we would do well do consider its broader implications before we allow it to recede into the past.
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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
Reality Gendervision: Sexuality and Gender on Reality TV Conference, on April 26-27, 2013, at Indiana University.
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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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“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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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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The 2012 BET Awards as [Black] Family Reunion
Its the pairing of disrepute with respectability that makes the BET Awards akin to a Black Family reunion.
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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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