While the Occupy movement uses the 1% metaphor to critique social inequality, the Hunted transmedia campaign finds multiple ways to integrate the metaphor into the system of commercial television.
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Perspectives
Transmedia For the One Percent That Matters?
Live from the Grand Ole Opry
Although live performances over radio like those of the Grand Ole Opry are one of the medium's basic functions, liveness is also culturally constructed, and its relationship with radio is fluid and uncertain.
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Premiere Week 2012: The CW
Antenna contributors consider the 2012 Fall Premieres from The CW.
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Special Issue: Journal of Popular Film & Television CFP
CFP for a Special Issue of Journal of Popular Film and Television: “New Directions in Screen Technologies”
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NYFF 2012: IN A MELLOW MOOD [Part Two]
Taking on selections from this year's New York Film Festival.
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That’s Debatable: Truth and Values in the Vice-Presidential Debate
How fact-checking and the win/lose paradigm may distract voters from the more important moments in a debate.
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Exploring Iyanla Vanzant’s Toolkit for Fix My Life
In the second of two posts on the enterprise of black female discipline, how does the enterprise change when a black woman is the disciplinarian?
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John Fiske on the Politics of Aesthetics
What political investments are written into discursive analysis? What is the relationship between media literacy and aesthetic analysis?
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NYFF 2012: In a Mellow Mood [Part One]
Taking on selections from this year's New York Film Festival.
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Steve Harvey and the Enterprise of Black Female Discipline
While it feels natural to celebrate the advance in African American representation demonstrated by Harvey’s multifaceted empire, the black feminist in me wonders if his large steps forward will mean a step backward for black women in media.
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[Updated] Premiere Week 2012: ABC
Antenna contributors consider the 2012 Fall Premieres from ABC.
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[UPDATED] Premiere Week 2012: CBS
Antenna contributors consider the 2012 Fall Premieres from CBS.
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[UPDATED] Fall Premieres 2012: FOX
Antenna contributors consider the 2012 Fall Premieres from FOX.
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The Real Housewives of (the “New”) Miami
While clearly trading on the legacy of representation that frames Latina/os as “spicy” the RHOM simultaneously constructs a shift towards whiteness in the racialized character of the city itself.
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A Celebration of Alexander Doty, Oct 12 & 13
Please join Indiana University, Friday October 12 and Saturday October 13, 2012, as they celebrate the life and work of colleague and friend, Alexander M. Doty.
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