On the heels of some binge-viewing, Jonathan Gray discusses Disney Junior’s three female-centered original series
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What’s a Two Year-Old Girl To Do (or Watch)?
Fort McMoney: Media for the Age of Oil
Melissa Aronczyk discusses Fort McMoney, an interactive web documentary designed to raise awareness of the conflicts among industrial, political and environmental interests in the development of oil.
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What Are You Missing? Jan 13 – Jan 26
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Anne Friedberg, Innovative Scholarship, and Close Up (1927-1933)
Recipient of the 2014 Anne Friedberg Innovative Scholarship Award Eric Hoyt discusses his personal connection with Friedberg, her contributions, and her legacy.
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Flow (Still) Matters
Despite the way flow helped coalesce our field, there's not really an overwhelming body of flow work, especially with regard to the pleasure people derive from it.
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From Mercury to Mars: After the Martians: The Invasion of “Daytime” in the War of the Worlds Controversy
In this final post in our series From Mercury to Mars: Orson Welles on Radio after 75 Years, Jennifer Hyland Wang analyzes how responses to the War of the Worlds broadcast exposed much of the gender and class discourses underpinning the American Broadcasting system.
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Net Neutrality is Over— Unless You Want It
A federal appeals court just ended net neutrality because the FCC didn't call it what it is: common carriage.
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From Mercury to Mars: Vox Orson
The From Mercury to Mars series continues today with a new post from Murray Pomerance about Orson Welles' voice.
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Julie D’Acci on Mapping the Reflexivity of Cultural Temporality
Josh Shepperd's "On (the) Wisconsin Discourses" series continues with a focus on the contributions of Julie D'Acci to the concepts of emergence and temporality
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Google’s Aesthetic Turn: One Simple Beautiful Useful Google
In this latest entry in the Aesthetic Turn series, Megan Sapnar Ankerson explores how Google's aesthetic shift from "transparency" to "beauty" serves as a site for critical engagement with the aesthetics of digital artifacts.
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What Are You Missing? Dec 30 – Jan 12
Back from the break, here are ten or more media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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From Mercury to Mars: The Shadow of the Great Detective: Orson Welles and Sherlock Holmes on the Air
The Antenna-Sounding Out! series From Mercury to Mars: Orson Welles on Radio after 75 Years continues on into the new year with a post on Sounding Out! from A. Brad Schwartz about the influence of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories on Orson Welles' radio work.
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What Did You Miss? Year in Review – UPDATED
As 2013 comes to a close, we here at Antenna are taking the time to reflect on the media and media stories of this year that we didn't get to spend quite enough time thinking and talking about.
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Accessing Beyoncé
Though initially met with surprise, the pop star returns to a number of themes with Beyoncé and will again, regardless of how she chooses to distribute them.
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You’ve Come A Long Way, Bonnie?
In this cross-channel miniseries adaptation, the romance of the doomed couple is given center stage.
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The Hunger Games and the Female-Led Franchise Part 2
While teaching an undergraduate film module this week, I asked my student cohort to come up with any female-led film franchises. We were discussing gender and I was trying to illustrate how inequality still persists in the twenty-first century both at the level of industry and aesthetics. Masculine film franchises were easy and the...
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