Joss Whedon and Neil Patrick Harris come to Glee; the results may not be what you think. Last week the glee club found its voice; this week Glee shows us its own.
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Using Its Voice: Glee Shows Us What Kind of Musical(s) It’s Made of
Musical Performance Finally Gets Its Due in Treme
Dramatic television has rarely shown much affinity for musicians, and neither has it shown much artistry for dealing with musical performances within the narrative. This time, David Simon and HBO finally get it right.
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Author as God? or, Kripke, We Don’t Need You to Explain Supernatural to Us
I like active viewers/readers, and while I don’t think that authors are dead, I don’t think they should run after their texts telling us what they mean. A good text should show me its myriad meanings, and great texts tend to contain multitudes.
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Watching Like a Mother
In the nearly three years since I joined the motherhood, I’ve noticed differences in the meanings I make and in what stays with me.
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Character Bleed; or, What is Lorelai Gilmore Doing with Nate Fisher?
Seeing Graham as Sarah Braverman evokes for both Derek and me her role of Lorelai, but whereas I view Sarah as maybe a little snarkier and wittier than she’s written in the show, for Derek the roles crash.
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Glee Club: Performing Recordings
Some thoughts on the peculiar nature of Glee's soundtrack and why it both pulls me in and repels me from the program.
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The Right to Make Wrong TV?
Later this year, the RightNetwork, a network dedicated to programming solely for conservatives, will launch. I’m intrigued by this network for a few reasons.
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Mind The Gap: Watching Doctor Who in America
What has Doctor Who looked like from "the other side of the pond"?
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Is the Auteur All Wet? On David Simon’s Adventures in Authenticity in Post-Katrina New Orleans
Is it problematic that Treme seems to hit some false notes? Only until the series begins to interrogate the authenticity tropes one might have expected it to create.
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Egregious Product Placement: Toyota & Bones
The inclusion of Angela's Toyota Sienna in the script of a recent Bones episode demonstrates an unusual alignment of product placement and ad campaign.
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Smart Girls; Or, Why Do People on TV So Rarely Act Like We Would?
The Vampire Diaries has a set of surprisingly complex and even more astoundingly likeable characters who consistently are depicted as real friends. They fight and disagree; they forgive and make up.
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We’re Running Out of Time!
With only eight hours left, 24 dies as it lived--made up as it goes along.
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SCMS + SXSW = ?
Media studies stands to gain from the consideration and analysis of new media and vice versa. Bringing two major conferences together, SCMS and SXSW Interactive, and seeing what that gets us seems like as good a place to start as any.
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Putting the American Back in Idol
American Idol contestant Siobhan Magnus is a veritable original who typifies the American spirit--and watching her succeed is really what the show is all about.
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Sports Guy Bill Simmons: Journalism’s Future?
Is ESPN.com's Bill Simmons, also known as Sports Guy, the future of journalism?
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