For today's television showrunner, Twitter is simultaneously rife with potential and littered with pitfalls.
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Perspectives
Tweets of Anarchy: Showrunners on Twitter
Back to School Fun: FALL TV RETURNS!
For many academics, the coming fall television season offers excitement, but also the stress of managing what we watch.
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Egregious Product Placement: The Closer & Hershey’s
Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson on TNT's The Closer loves candy. And Hershey's loves The Closer. Is it a product placement match made in heaven?
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Business as Usual
It’s worthwhile thinking about the Blackberry investigations and Google/Verizon plan for the future of net neutrality in connection with each another because they tell us a lot about trends in information policy and practice.
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Summer Media: Wet and Wild Amusements
The strange case of the carnivalesque and commercial nature of the modern amusement park.
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A New Stage in the Evolution of Original Cable Programming?
This summer’s crop of original cable series leaves me wondering if we’ve entered a new era, as I increasingly find less innovation and distinction among many of cable’s originals.
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What’s Happening to Don Draper?: Mad Men and the Waning Value of Masculine Detachment
Unlike any other episode to date, “Waldorf Stories” stresses the importance of masculine disengagement by creating a context in which this mode is no longer available to Don.
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What Do You Think? The Emmys
The 62nd Primetime Emmys aired last night on NBC with a first-time host, and several first-time winners. There's much to discuss, and at Antenna, we're curious: what do you think?
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Part-time Occupation
Keeping shooting schedules is hard enough under perfect conditions. For producers in the West Bank things are never perfect. For a scholar, for better and for worse, that’s part of the story.
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Vampire Shows and Gendered Quality Television
If I were to pick a worthy successor of Buffy's Sunnydale, it would be Mystic Falls rather than Bon Temps.
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Kids Today
Kids are being sexualized these days. And, wouldn’t you know it, popular culture is said to be at fault
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“You’re Not Going to Kill This Account”: Mad Men, Racial Prejudice, and History
Mad Men begs the question of how the 1960s embodied by our characters informs the present world that we now inhabit. What would it mean if we are the inheritors not of only the brave triumphs of the Freedom Riders, but also of the indifference or disinterest of people who felt unaffected by them?
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From Painting to Cinema: A Skeptical Look
When, if at all, can we appeal to painting to explain a filmmaker's work?
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Chinese Deadwood 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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Selling Style: Mad Men and the Fashioning of Femininity
"The Rejected" is an episode in which how the characters look was central to the meanings on offer.
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