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 ‘ Emmys ’
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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Beyond the Nominations: The Emmys and Representation
While we typically judge Emmy diversity through the nominees, campaigns and ballots offer other spaces to explore politics of representation.
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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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Why Netflix is Not Emmy’s Online TV Vanguard
Netflix's nominations have been signaled as historical for online television, but they were earned through efforts to erase that distinction.
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Report From the TV Academy Faculty Seminar (Part 1)
A group of TV Studies faculty share their impressions from a week-long Television Academy seminar.
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The Broadcast Battleground of the 2012 Emmy Awards
While winners and losers may speak most directly to television's hierarchies, the Emmy telecast itself offers a space in which broadcast networks can reshape prevailing discourses of quality within the television industry.
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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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