This spring, game designers of Rust courted controversy by assigning players unchangeable, racialized avatars. Adrienne Shaw unpacks how game design helped produce some of that player outrage.
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Unpacking Rust, Race, and Player Reactions to Change
Style, Structuring Conceits, and the Paratexts of Mad Men
Piers Britton on Mad Men's visual style, series structure, and Sixties-philiac tendencies, and how the TV series turned its tension between the espousal of emotional truthfulness and a preoccupation with “superficial” visual pleasures into a branding strategy.
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Marvel, Wired? Daredevil and Visual Branding in the MCU
How far are Marvel Studios’ film and television franchises visually coded for homogeneity? How insistently, that is to say, is brand identity maintained at the levels of design, cinematography, editing and post-production processing?
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“Television Aesthetics” versus Formal and Stylistic Analysis
Piers Britton reflects on the unacknowledged divergences in use of the term “aesthetic” within television studies, and suggests that some of the elisions are leading to unproductive argument.
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As Seen on Shark Tank: Tech Entrepreneurship’s Portable Aesthetics
In a recent episode of ABC's Shark Tank, debate over what constitutes a technology takes on industrial dimensions as the stylistics of Silicon Valley shape popular images of entrepreneurship across industrial sectors.
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Google’s Aesthetic Turn: One Simple Beautiful Useful Google
In this latest entry in the Aesthetic Turn series, Megan Sapnar Ankerson explores how Google's aesthetic shift from "transparency" to "beauty" serves as a site for critical engagement with the aesthetics of digital artifacts.
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The Aesthetic Turn: In Search of the Pictorial Intelligence
Colin Burnett continues our Aesthetic Turn series with a call to revise our thinking about moving image intelligence beyond just language and verbal systems of thought.
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The Aesthetic Turn: Media Aesthetics: Color for the Where and How
In this latest entry in The Aesthetic Turn series, Carolyn Kane looks to color and color studies to provide a fresh and unique lens to articulate a theory of media aesthetics.
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From Mercury to Mars: War of the Worlds and the Invasion of Media Studies
In this latest post in our From Mercury to Mars series, Josh Shepperd discusses the "War of the Worlds" broadcast as a foundational subject for intellectual history and, as the subject of social research like Hadley Cantril's The Invasion from Mars, one of the events that legitimated the very study of media.
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The Aesthetic Turn: How Media Translate, or, Why Do I Like Chase Scenes?
In this latest entry in The Aesthetic Turn series, Kyle Conway considers the aesthetic experience of media, using translation and metaphor to turn our attention away from the object and toward our experience of media in the age of convergence.
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The Aesthetic Turn: Cultural Studies and the Question of Aesthetic Experience
In this inaugural post in Antenna's new series on cultural studies and media aesthetics, "The Aesthetic Turn," Kyle Conway queries media's experiential dimensions.
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From Mercury to Mars: A Hard Act to Follow: War of the Worlds and the Challenges of Literary Adaptation
Understanding "War of the Worlds"’s neglected second act requires consideration of the contested status of character monologue and larger shifts in dominant production norms for Golden Age radio drama.
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New Directions in Media Studies: The Aesthetic Turn
As more media scholars grapple with issues traditionally associated with aesthetic analysis, the need to map the history, methods, and goals of this “aesthetic turn” proves increasingly pressing.
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