If Pixar is truly a cutting-edge animation studio, why did Brave take seventeen years?
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The Flow Conference Committee is accepting roundtable response submissions through July 13.
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The problem with Carol Costello and other purveyors of manufactroversies is not that they are engaging in debate about climate change, but that they're debating the wrong thing.
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Its the pairing of disrepute with respectability that makes the BET Awards akin to a Black Family reunion.
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Anderson Cooper addressed his sexuality in a letter that demonstrates a new, old reason to come out: to break down invisibility and become a model for queer youth.
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The new "Mickey Check" logo for "Disney-approved" licensed food and beverage products is merely a new take on an old (and problematic) approach.
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Though it's marketed as a film that promotes the female gaze, Magic Mike's message is a reprimand and a ridicule of the very women whose money it desperately seeks.
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Upon Rodney King's passing, we can remember In Living Color's commentary on police brutality, King's trial, the L. A. Uprising, and how satire makes cultural ugliness palatable.
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Studying representation was my way into media studies. But laborers aren't working from a script and we can't always visualize the lived realities of their work.
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While productions like Sport in America champion sport's cultural import, they tend to obscure the conditions that facilitate and restrict sport's apparent capacity to define us.
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Why does Little Mosque matter to viewers, and why does it matter to television scholars?
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We not only need to engage with historiographical ideologies and methods in times of shifting temporality and materiality; we need to protect physical media.
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Program buyers in over ninety countries thought their audiences would find Little Mosque worth watching, but the upcoming Hulu premiere is the first time the show had U.S. distribution.
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London 2012 Olympic mascots Wenlock and Mandeville reveal the changing way that media brands, including the Olympics, are seeking to reconstruct themselves for the converged digital media environment.
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A preview of the European Football Championship quarterfinal between Greece and Germany.
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The conventions of the sitcom that Little Mosque on the Prairie adopted often worked at cross-purposes with humor’s potential to draw people’s assumptions about the world into question.
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