Posts Tagged ‘ Showtime ’

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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Making an Exit, Coming Home: Israeli Television Creators in a Global-Aiming Industry

June 18, 2015
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Making an Exit, Coming Home: Israeli Television Creators in a Global-Aiming Industry

Leora Hadas tracks creative frictions as Israeli TV dramatists see their work exported, adapted and as The Affair’s Hagai Levi puts it, taking a permanent detour from work that “started out as art.”
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Debating the Return of Twin Peaks

October 11, 2014
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Debating the Return of <i>Twin Peaks</i>

Amanda Ann Klein makes her case for the prosecution as to why Showtime should leave Twin Peaks alone; Dana Och and Jason Mittell argue for the defense by sharing why they are excited to return to the woods.
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The Broadcast Battleground of the 2012 Emmy Awards

September 23, 2012
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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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