We'll never know exactly why anyone wins Emmys, but the process weighed heavily in HBO's dominance at this year's ceremony.
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Posts Tagged ‘ Emmy Awards ’
A New Brand of Tea Leaves?: The 2015 Emmy Awards
Choose Your Own Narrative: The 2014 Emmy Awards
How this year's ceremony's lack of narrative created discursive space filled in by everything but the production itself.
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Category Agnostic: The 2014 Emmy Nominations
As cases of so-called "category fraud" increase, the Emmy Awards' arbitrary points of distinction risk becoming the story.
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Self-Important Spectacle: The 2013 Emmy Awards
From the moment the ceremony began, it was clear that this was an evening set to celebrate television in the most misguided of ways.
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Send in the Clones: Tatiana Maslany vs. The Emmy Awards
BBC America’s campaign to earn the Orphan Black actress a nomination comes at a time when the Academy's traditional logics are being challenged by new spaces for Emmy campaigning.
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The Cheese Stands Alone: Downton Abbey’s Emmy Coup
PBS successfully transitions Downton Abbey from Miniseries to Drama Series by continuing to lean on the advantages afforded the former distinction.
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Campaign Contributions: “Mainstreaming” the Emmy Race
While usually confined to niche websites, the Emmy nomination race broke into mainstream outlets as digital pages are turned over to Emmy contenders in exchange for potential advertising revenue.
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