It's premiere week! Check back regularly for our contributors thoughts on all the new FOX shows! Responses so far: Terra Nova, The New Girl, and X Factor.
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It's Premiere Week! Check back here regularly for our contributor's thoughts on all the new NBC programs. Responses so far: Playboy Club, Free Agents, Up All Night and Prime Suspect.
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Mediated drag images are often foregrounded, particularly as contemporary scholarship posits how reality television and music video challenge disseminated images of drag through parody and confrontational disregard for societal convention. Until recently, such representations were limited to television, film, and music video. But several drag artists have developed huge followings based on their online...
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Torchwood's finale is full of bi- action (bipolar showdowns, bilateral immortality, and SF's human/alien binary) as its showrunner seeks to second-guess audience expectations. But how much does it leave its viewers guessing?
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Tomorrow Antenna will kick-off its second annual premiere week. But is Premiere Week what it used to be?
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It’s in the long-term best interests of the field on a variety of fronts that we work to play a more prominent role in the policy arena. But how do we do so?
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Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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'Miracle Day' offers a literalising, telefantasy take on "global" drama this week, as well as seeming to literalise an infamous aphorism at the same time...
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As culture becomes increasingly digitized, arguments for the “dematerialization” of media are becoming commonplace. However, media have always been, and remain, embedded in and structured by material objects, networks, and practices that delimit their uses and meanings.
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My wife and I had the first of our three children during my first year as a faculty member, so I've never really known what it is to be a professor or a father without simultaneously wearing the other hat.
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Most scholars of media have at some point stumbled onto something from another country without the proper frame of reference and been utterly bewildered by it. Generation P seems to be consciously playing up this experience as part of its appeal for a niche foreign market.
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This week it's a square of flooring that provides the mysterious detail, or the "figure in the carpet", if you like. As Torchwood: Miracle Day gets stranger and even more self-referential, will it ever give up its secrets?
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With all the bad advice being given about academia, or simply the lack of advice, where do we get good advice and how do we establish a better system for giving it?
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Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Captain Jack flashes back in time, and we find out about the beginnings of Miracle Day. But just what is the episode saying about its sinful villains?
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A discussion of academic media studies work outside the university.
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