Posts Tagged ‘ history ’

Magical Realism and Fictional Verisimilitude in Medellín

September 7, 2015
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Magical Realism and Fictional Verisimilitude in Medellín

Offering first impressions of Narcos, Kristina Busse discusses its layered framing, use of original footage, and language and accent.
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Losing Our Heads for the Tudors: The Unquiet Pleasures of Quixotic History in The Tudors and Wolf Hall

June 23, 2015
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Losing Our Heads for the Tudors:  The Unquiet Pleasures of Quixotic History in <i>The Tudors</i> and <i>Wolf Hall</i>

The Tudors and Wolf Hall can actually tell us a great deal about how the early modern appears in contemporary popular culture, as well as how we engage with the historical past.
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Why Care About Radio Broadcast History in the On-Demand Digital Age?

November 17, 2014
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Why Care About Radio Broadcast History in the On-Demand Digital Age?

Locating and making publically accessible radio broadcasts and their supporting archival documents mitigates the generalized understandings that radio broadcasting’s past was a “mass” media of little variety, low quality and limited engagement.
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Crowdsourcing as Consultation: Branding History at Canada’s Museum of Civilization (Part II)

December 19, 2012
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Crowdsourcing as Consultation: Branding History at Canada’s Museum of Civilization (Part II)

As the Canadian Museum of Civilization transforms into the Canadian Museum of History, it seems that meaningful conversations about historical issues that are actually formative of Canadian culture are less compelling than the $25 million incentive that comes with the tunnel vision of the Ministry of Heritage.
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Crowdsourcing as Consultation: Branding History at Canada’s Museum of Civilization (Part I)

December 18, 2012
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Crowdsourcing as Consultation: Branding History at Canada’s Museum of Civilization (Part I)

Canada’s sesquicentennial is eagerly anticipated by Canada’s Conservative government, which is planning a series of commemorative events. The trouble is, these events are contrived to commemorate the Conservative government far more than the nation’s glorious (or inglorious) pasts.
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Mediating the Past: Licensing History, One Game At a Time

November 30, 2012
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Mediating the Past: Licensing History, One Game At a Time

By licensing—and disciplining—history, the Assassin's Creed series seeks to turn cultural capital into gaming capital.
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NYFF 2012: History Has Many Cunning Passages [Part Three]

November 1, 2012
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NYFF 2012:  History Has Many Cunning Passages [Part Three]

Our third post on New York Film Festival 2012 is a collaboration with the Society for Cineman & Media Studies, and reviews three films from the festival: NO, Ginger and Rosa, and Not Fade Away.
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Mediating the Past: Sacred History and Sacrilegious Television Comedy

August 22, 2012
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Mediating the Past: Sacred History and Sacrilegious Television Comedy

For viewers too young to remember, moments of common historical importance are increasingly being inflected with the flippant attitude of sick humor.
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Mediating the Past: History and Ancestry in NBC’s Who Do You Think You Are?

Mediating the Past: History and Ancestry in NBC’s Who Do You Think You Are?

Some of the most compelling episodes of NBC's Who Do You Think You Are? are those where relatively little information about a celebrity’s ancestors can be found.
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An Incomplete History: “Women Who Rock” at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

March 1, 2012
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An Incomplete History:  “Women Who Rock” at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

I found myself in Cleveland last week.  My friend Amy Rigby, a musician who plies her trade in one of the parallel music industries that I talked about in my recent post about the Grammy Awards, had things to do in Cleveland.  I’d been threatening for months to take advantage of being on sabbatical...
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Summer Media: American Pickers, Pawn Stars, and Shows About Stuff

August 28, 2010
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Summer Media: <i>American Pickers</i>, <i>Pawn Stars</i>, and Shows About Stuff

The documentary reality TV series American Pickers and Pawn Stars are two of this summer's hottest original shows on cable. And yet, how is that shows about collecting really expensive stuff are so popular amidst an economic recession?
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“You’re Not Going to Kill This Account”: Mad Men, Racial Prejudice, and History

August 24, 2010
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“You’re Not Going to Kill This Account”: Mad Men, Racial Prejudice, and History

Mad Men begs the question of how the 1960s embodied by our characters informs the present world that we now inhabit. What would it mean if we are the inheritors not of only the brave triumphs of the Freedom Riders, but also of the indifference or disinterest of people who felt unaffected by them?
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