After just over six years in business, Antenna is done. Goodbye and thanks!
Read more »
Perspectives
Goodbye to Antenna
What’s New in Media Industries? A Revised Edition of Understanding Media Industries
What's new in Amanda Lotz and Timothy Havens' Understanding Media Industries 2?
Read more »
Original or Exclusive? Shifts in Television Financing and Distribution Shift Meanings
In addition to increasing the possible objects of study, broadband-distributed television services have introduced new challenges to grounding the television shows we study in their industrial milieu.
Read more »
Pretty in Pink: BBC iPlayer and the Promotion of On-Demand Television
TV on demand: always there when you need it, but for what? Paul Grainge explores the promotional imagination of on-demand television, and the move from “platform mobility” to current industry rhetoric of “need-states.”
Read more »
A Tribute to Barbara Klinger
We asked several scholars who have worked with the retiring Barbara Klinger, past and present, to offer some words.
Read more »
She Works Hard for the Money/Man/Shoes/Herself/Her Sisters…
In the fourth and final installment of a limited series on Cupcakes, Pinterest, and Ladyporn: Feminized Popular Culture in the Early Twenty-First Century, contributor Elizabeth Nathanson outlines the anthology's "Labors" section and argues that mediated depictions of femininity are always working hard in public and private spheres while striving for creativity, community, and sisterhood.
Read more »
“Bodies” That Matter
In part three of a limited series on Cupcakes, Pinterest, and Ladyporn, contributor Kyra Hunting outlines the anthology's "Bodies" section in order to argue that critical consideration for women's media cultures facilitates a deeper understanding of embodiment in relation to community practices, self-presentation, and technology.
Read more »
Fall Premieres 2015: The Best and the Worst
What have been the best and the worst new additions to TV this Fall?
Read more »
Reimagining Passions, Pleasures and Bad Lady Texts
In part two of a series on the anthology Cupcakes, Pinterest, and Ladyporn: Feminized Popular Culture in the Early 21st Century, Kristen Warner discusses the "Passions" section, where scholars consider how pleasure functions for women viewers who use female-centric media texts as models for who they want to be and what they want to...
Read more »
Feminized Popular Culture in the Early 21st Century
In the first installment of a four-part series on the new anthology Cupcakes, Pinterest, and Ladyporn, editor Elana Levine outlines some of the motivations for this collection as well as its guiding theoretical and thematic frameworks.
Read more »
Fall Premieres 2015: The Daily Show with Trevor Noah
If Jon Stewart saved or ruined democracy -- depending on who you ask -- what about Trevor Noah?
Read more »
Disrupt San Francisco: TechCrunch Puts Startups Onstage
Li Cornfeld reports on the 2015 Startup Battlefield competition at TechCrunch Disrupt San Fransisco, and critiques the neoliberal underpinnings of subjecting creators of innovative technologies for diverse industrial sectors to restrictive and uniform presentational paradigms.
Read more »
Bollywood’s Superhero Genre: Transnational Appropriations, Labor and Referentiality
Nandana Bose unmasks the postmillennial Bollywood superhero to reveal a bricolage of transnational intertexts.
Read more »
TIFF 2015 Report
As a teacher-scholar, Courtney Brannon Donoghue observes how the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) serves as a microcosm for understanding contemporary media industries where activities span production, distribution, and exhibition as well as reflect the evolving nature of film festivals.
Read more »
Feeling Good About Feeling Bad About Aylan Kurdi
Rebecca Adelman on the photos of drowned 3-year-old Syrian refugee Aylan Kurdi, questions of ethical spectatorship, and how much of the debate surrounding the images obscures the complexities inherent in any act of looking at casualty photos.
Read more »
