Josh Shepperd's "On (the) Wisconsin Discourses" series continues with a focus on the contributions of Julie D'Acci to the concepts of emergence and temporality
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Perspectives
Julie D’Acci on Mapping the Reflexivity of Cultural Temporality
What Did You Miss? Year in Review – UPDATED
As 2013 comes to a close, we here at Antenna are taking the time to reflect on the media and media stories of this year that we didn't get to spend quite enough time thinking and talking about.
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Accessing Beyoncé
Though initially met with surprise, the pop star returns to a number of themes with Beyoncé and will again, regardless of how she chooses to distribute them.
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You’ve Come A Long Way, Bonnie?
In this cross-channel miniseries adaptation, the romance of the doomed couple is given center stage.
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The Hunger Games and the Female-Led Franchise Part 2
While teaching an undergraduate film module this week, I asked my student cohort to come up with any female-led film franchises. We were discussing gender and I was trying to illustrate how inequality still persists in the twenty-first century both at the level of industry and aesthetics. Masculine film franchises were easy and the...
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Amazon’s Betas: From the Valley to the City
Space is not neutral, especially the mobile app world in San Francisco.
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Say My Name: Unnamed Black Objects in This Year’s “Quality” Films
This year has been heralded as a renaissance for films featuring black actors and actresses. Many of these black actors and actresses have performed in “quality” films like 42, The Butler, and 12 Years A Slave. As an arbiter of their “quality” these films have already begun racking up award nominations, and in some...
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Les Brown: Thinking Inside the Box
Noel Holston celebrates the life and work of Les Brown, TV journalist and historian, editor at Variety, and renown expert on the business of television.
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The Assassination of John F. Kennedy and Television News
An examination of the JFK assassination news coverage suggests that the networks did a woeful job in the early hours, but that a local third-rated ABC affiliate provided remarkable journalism that not only helped ABC scoop NBC and CBS, but also foreshadowed the future of TV news.
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We’ll Really Miss You, Mrs. K
Any time I hear the wind blow it will whisper the name Edna. And so let us part with a love that will echo through the ages.
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Contingent Labor and the Possibility of Creative Coalitions
Adrienne Shaw explores how academics, fans, and industry professionals are all laborers of love and how a coalitional attitude could benefit all parties in our quest to engage with our beloved media objects.
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The Cosmopolitan City and the Carnivalesque in Arcade Fire’s Reflektor Campaign
The promotional campaign for Arcade Fire's Reflektor reflects an increasingly mobile and interconnected experience of popular culture, as well as the persistent significance of local sites of production in popular music-making and promotion.
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Making Television in the 21st Century Conference Report
The common thread at the Making Television in the 21st Century Conference was the pursuit to provide updated models and methods to make sense of the evolving medium.
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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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Change and Continuity on Saturday Night Live
Despite a rough start to the season, Saturday Night Live continues to be a fascinating case study for understanding American television.
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