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Gleetalians, or Glee’s Italian Promotional Paratexts – Part 1

March 3, 2011
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Gleetalians, or <i>Glee</i>’s Italian Promotional Paratexts – Part 1

In this post I propose to look at some of the promotional videos used for the Italian launch of Glee, which premiered on FOX Italia on December 25th, 2009. I will look at two examples in which the dubbed Italian version was superimposed on the English original.
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Capitalizing on Multiculturalism: “Premium” Indian American Audiences and “American” advertisers

December 20, 2010
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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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Ambient Nationality

October 26, 2010
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Ambient Nationality

For all the interest in using foreign media to immerse oneself in a "foreign" nationality, perhaps what a lot of us want/need is simply a background, faint, weak, unobtrusive ambience.
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The ACTA Retreat: Their Ignorance, And Ours

October 21, 2010
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The ACTA Retreat:  Their Ignorance, And Ours

The ACTA retreat is indicative of a larger crisis in how media policy works today. Specifically: we have no idea how media policy works today.
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What Do You Think? The Chilean Mine Rescue

October 15, 2010
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What Do You Think? The Chilean Mine Rescue

The rescue of a group of Chilean miners this week has become a media phenomenon. We want your opinion on it all.
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A Summer of Over-Hyped Films and Box-Office Duds

September 18, 2010
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A Summer of Over-Hyped Films and Box-Office Duds

Summer 2010 can be summed up in two words for Bollywood watchers - hype and disappointment! With just a few hits, a couple of average earners, and a long list of flops, the industry’s scorecard has been nothing but dismal.
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Chinese Deadwood in Malawi

August 19, 2010
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Chinese <i>Deadwood</i> in Malawi

American TV in Malawi, by way of China and South Africa. What are we to make of the cultural intermediaries, and what does this say about global media flow?
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Mind The Gap: Watching Doctor Who in America

April 24, 2010
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Mind The Gap: Watching <i>Doctor Who</i> in America

What has Doctor Who looked like from "the other side of the pond"?
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It’s Not Your Regular TV, It’s Bindass TV

April 2, 2010
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It’s Not Your Regular TV, It’s Bindass TV

UTV Bindass' "What I Am" campaign works to counter stereotypes of young people as immature and irresponsible, and to promote an image of youth culture as hip, cool and responsible.
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And You Thought We Didn’t Care

November 13, 2009
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Last week Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas announced his intention not to run for reelection (big) if and when a vote is held. This isn't the forum to discuss the political significance of this move, but I thought I'd throw out some quick observations on the international media side of the story.
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“Is India ready to face its moment of truth?”: the hullabaloo over Indian reality TV

November 7, 2009
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“Is India ready to face its moment of truth?”: the hullabaloo over Indian reality TV

After family sagas and quiz shows hosted by Bollywood stars, it is now "voyeuristic" reality television that has the Indian television viewer hooked and the moral police rankled. The latest reality show to grab headlines and media attention is Sach ka Saamna, which not only bolstered Star Plus' ratings but also spawned debates about...
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