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.
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Industry
Original or Exclusive? Shifts in Television Financing and Distribution Shift Meanings
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.
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Notes from the Telluride Film Festival
Mary Beth Haralovich reports on her experience at the Telluride Film Festival.
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Disney Deletes TRON 3: End of Line?
Disney's hesitation to move forward with TRON 3 is symptomatic of the company's inability to find an appropriate strategy to bridge disparate pieces under one unified brand.
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Black Widow and Whedon Exceptionalism: Accounting for Sexism in Age of Ultron and the MCU
Piers Britton explores questions of representation and issues of authorship and creative control in "Avengers: Age of Ultron" and the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
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Straddling the “Edge”: The Invisible Trend of Religion on TV
With religion on fictional television growing, why is it so difficult for press and PR to acknowledge this shift within the industry?
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WWE Network’s 1-Year Anniversary: A Conversation (Part 2)
In part two of their conversation, Cory Barker and Drew Zolides discuss the future of the WWE Network and what other over-the-top (OTT) services can learn from it.
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WWE Network’s 1-Year Anniversary: A Conversation (Part 1)
In part one of their conversation, Cory Barker and Drew Zolides discuss the Network's impact on WWE's storytelling and its financials.
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Drive-Ins, and the Stubborn Usefulness of Film Nostalgia
Interstellar (2014) made its well-known debut last weekend. In Chicago, the film (yes, we can still call it that) screened in its “intended” format of 70mm at the Navy Pier IMAX. Its appearance there and at other such venues was predictably celebrated by old school cinephiles as yet another defiant declaration of celluloid’s continuing...
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Populist or Prestige? Amazon’s Attempts to Brand Pilot Season
Amazon Studios's Pilot Season attempts to frame itself as a “disruption” of both the traditional Hollywood development system and Netflix’s production of prestige television.
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I, Reboot (Part II)
This second installment of "I, Reboot" dives into the origins of the reboot-as-narrative-analogy and distinguishes "reboot" from "ret-con."
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I, Reboot (Part 1)
What is a reboot, then? This is the overarching question of this series of articles and one which I have been wrestling with for six years or so.
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Bollywood, Hollywood — Trollywood?
Somewhere in the British/American relationship, a distinct genre of television has originated, which I propose to call “Trollywood.”
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Net Neutrality is Over— Unless You Want It
A federal appeals court just ended net neutrality because the FCC didn't call it what it is: common carriage.
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Check-in vs. See It: How Twitter’s Latest Moves Impact GetGlue
The Twitter-Comcast partnership and their See It feature could have interesting consequences for lesser social networks like GetGlue and Viggle.
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