This year’s “Wisconsin’s Own” selections speak to the exciting way in which films tied to a particular place nevertheless negotiate multiple influences in surprising and original ways.
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“What is a Wisconsin Film?”: 2013 Wisconsin Film Festival
#1ReasonToBe and Many Reasons To Still Worry
One of this year's key stories is how the industry deals with difference and inclusivity, both for developers and for the industry as a whole.
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Missionary for the Movies: Remembering Roger Ebert
Roger showed that popular film criticism could be an intellectually honorable enterprise—more than that, a calling.
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Framing a Legacy: The Office‘s Diegetic Documentary
While The Office's documentary aesthetic has often led to the assumption the show itself was the final product, the choice to position the diegetic documentary as public television and a successful international export pushes against this assumption in interesting ways.
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E-distribution gets “Weird” in Canada
Distribution remains a challenge for many artists and labels, and this initiative creates a much-needed resource that can allow artists to more easily sustain creative autonomy.
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The Future of Media Production?
The idea of user-supported media production extends beyond Kickstarter, as technology continues to offer more areas for direct audience support and participation.
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Diagnosis: Media Amnesia (and Education)
The cycle of obsession and disavowal over new media creates “media amnesia," whereby the promise of yet-another new technology restarts the dialogue on its perceived potential without a thorough investigation into the previous medium’s “failures.”
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What Are You Missing? March 17-March 30
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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“Fell in Love with a Song”: Squaresville and the Intimate Collective
"You know how sometimes when you're really really focused...you forget that you're a person? You forget that anything exists at all?"
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Tornadoes and Meteors and Bombs, Oh My! — Queering Kansas in the Pictures
Disney's Oz the Great and Powerful, like The Wizard of Oz, represents Kansas monochromatically to highlight the queer and colorful world of Oz. But as far as Hollywood's concerned, it's Kansas that's queer.
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Roundtable (Part 2): Career Stages and Conferencing Strategies
In the second part of this series on conferencing strategies and SCMS, focus is given to guidance and advice from faculty at various stages of their career.
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Roundtable (Part 1): Career Stages and Conferencing Strategies
In the second part of this series on conferencing strategies and SCMS, focus is given to guidance and advice from graduate students at various stages of their education.
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The Cost of Interfaces
Boycotting Facebook is getting harder, particularly because of the complete invisibility and unawareness of the nature of the social networking site to its members.
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The Comics Arms Race and the Failure of Diversity
Retailer incentives like variant covers are nothing new, but are being emphasized strongly in today’s market.
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What Are You Missing? March 3-March 16
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Kickstarting Veronica Mars: A Moment in a Movement
Why kickstarting Veronica Mars was not simply a procedural act, but rather a social experience awakening, mobilizing and monetizing fan cultures in real time.
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