A defense and explanation of teen melodrama Vampire Diaries.
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Perspectives
Vampire Diaries: The Best Genre Television You’re Not Watching
The Hogwarts Express Goes to Orlando
Universal Studios announced the arrival of the Wizarding World of Harry Potter to Super Bowl-watching muggles. What does this mean for the Harry Potter franchise?
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Talk about a bait and switch. The Tebow Super Bowl ad left me hyped up for more hype.
After weeks of controversy and speculation, Focus on the Family's 30-second Super bowl spot featuring Heisman Trophy-winner Tim Tebow was as decidedly uncontroversial as CBS claimed it would be.
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A Post against “post-“
Why the term "post-network" needs to be cancelled.
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Life Unexpected Not Up to Expectations
Life Unexpected isn't living up to my expectations. I plan on holding my breath for improvement, though--I am hopeful that the network and producers will figure out where they want to go and follow the natural lines of the premise of this story.
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Is There Room for Narrative Complexity in News about Politics?
Stewart praises Fox News for presenting a clear and simple narrative, and chastises Obama for his lack of the same. Citizens need stories, even in politics. But do they have to be so simple in an age of complexity?
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5 Thoughts on Teen Mom
Does it matter if Teen Mom, a documentary-style MTV series that completed its first season last week, provides an inaccurate picture of teen parenting in the U.S.?
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Hollywood Stars and the Death of the “Adult Drama”
Why are we currently experiencing what one filmmaker has called “the lowest point since cinema began”?
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Style Blogging and Retail Fandom
The women of the style blogging communities consciously use fashion to shape their identities, form connections with one another, and define particular iterations of contemporary femininity.
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What Does It Mean To Care About The Grammys?
Clearly, people are once again watching the telecast, even if one cannot be certain that most viewers ‘care’ about the popular artists and their music in the same way that they did in days gone by.
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What Are You Missing? January 24-30
Ten things worth checking out online from this past week; feel free to add more in the comments section.
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Egregious Product Placement: The Biggest Loser
Subway. 24 Hour Fitness. Extra sugar free gum. Ziploc. Muir Glen organic canned tomatoes. NBC's The Biggest Loser is the home of some of the biggest product placement deals on television.
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Lessons From Jay, Coco, and Zucker
In debriefing what went wrong with the Jay Leno Show, we shouldn’t just ask what Leno’s failure says – we should also ask what the combination of the failure and the momentary ratings spike says.
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Housewives in Crisis, Economic that Is
Though we can always expect a good relationship crisis from the gals, the “Housewife” series on Bravo in 2009 promised all sorts of insights into market crisis.
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What Do You Think? Most Important Films of the Decade
Continuing with our series, what films would you nominate as the most important of the decade?
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