Ten (or more) media industry stories you might have missed recently.
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Among the many threads entwined in this production are its virtually fetishistic engagement with and display of early 20th century material culture, including forms of media.
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Tags: Boardwalk Empire, HBO, quality drama, television
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How to define television studies? What is television studies and what isn't?
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Ten (or more) media industry stories you might have missed recently.
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While controversy is nothing new for reality TV, the political overtones of Bristol Palin's run on Dancing with the Stars illuminate the genre's tenuous relationship with the principles of democracy.
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Tags: Bristol Palin, Controversy, Dancing with the Stars, democracy, Jennifer Grey, Reality TV, sarah palin, television
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Ten (or more) media industry stories you might have missed recently.
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Ten (or more) media industry stories you might have missed recently.
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Ten (or more) media industry stories you might have missed recently.
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Are lifestyle brands the new record labels? A new recording studio owned by Converse is offering musicians the opportunity to record their music for free, further reducing the need for artists to work with traditional record labels. There are, of course, some strings attached.
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Tags: advertising, Converse, digital media, internet, music, music industry, radio, Rubber Tracks, television
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Ten (or more) media industry stories you might have missed recently.
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Zucker never managed to balance a love for the potential of television with a love for the bottom line. Indeed, his job description only expected the latter, but the great ones have managed to do both.
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Given that Erin so eloquently captured the buzz of the scholarly conversations this weekend, I’m going to focus on some of the roundtables that I found most intellectually stimulating.
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The ability to facilitate dialogue not only within roundtables, but among them, seems to me the greatest strength of the Flow conference model.
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Director Arthur Penn, who passed away last week, is best remembered for his Broadway plays and Hollywood films, but his impressive work in television's live anthology dramas has been neglected.
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Ten (or more) media industry stories you might have missed recently.
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