Perspectives

Transmedia For the One Percent That Matters?

October 22, 2012
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Transmedia For the One Percent That Matters?

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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Live from the Grand Ole Opry

October 19, 2012
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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

October 18, 2012
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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

October 16, 2012
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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]

October 15, 2012
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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

October 14, 2012
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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

October 11, 2012
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Exploring Iyanla Vanzant’s Toolkit for <i>Fix My Life</i>

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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NYFF 2012: In a Mellow Mood [Part One]

October 4, 2012
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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

October 3, 2012
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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

October 1, 2012
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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

September 29, 2012
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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

September 22, 2012
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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

September 18, 2012
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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

September 12, 2012
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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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