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What Are You Missing? Feb 17-March 2
WWE vs. Glenn Beck: Potshots to Publicity, Controversy to Cash
While the issue is ostensibly about the negative portrayal of the Tea Party, Glenn Beck and WWE have taken advantage of the situation for publicity.
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What Are You Missing? Feb 3-Feb 16
Ten media news items you might have missed recently.
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“You are my flawed hero”: Plotting Lived Fictions and Fictionalized Lives
The new series The Following literally spells out the very tropes it plan to use, letting its audience in on its postmodern joke where the plotting criminal is aware that he is creating a literary plot as well.
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The Advertisements of Super Bowl XLVII: On Dodge’s ‘Farmer’
This wasn't such an interesting Super Bowl in terms of commercials, but one spot for the Ram truck line stood out to us. Was there an ad that seemed particularly notable to you?
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What Are You Missing? Jan 20-Feb 2
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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What Are You Missing? January 6-19
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Golden Globes 2013: Going Home With Jodie Foster
Amy Poehler and Tina Fey's co-hosting of the 2013 Golden Globes was one in a number of prominent moments for women at this year's awards ceremony. Some might be tempted to claim that the event helped raise the banner for women. Not so fast.
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The Domestic Apolitics of 1600 Penn
NBC's new First Family sitcom, 1600 Penn, is surprisingly devoid of conventional political engagement, instead relying on traditional domestic comedy in the form of interpersonal conflict.
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The Real Housewives of (“the New”) Miami—Revisited
A few months ago I examined the re-launched Real Housewives of Miami(RHOM) series, part of Bravo’s immensely popular Real Housewives franchise, in another Antenna post. Now that the season has officially ended with the airing of the second part of the cast’s explosive reunion special, I would like to return to this text once...
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The Other Dramatic Transformation of NBC’s “Up All Night”
It has been a really hard fall for a feminist TV lover. Problems abound with both the character of Julia Braverman-Graham of Parenthood, and Mindy Kaling's character on her new show, The Mindy Project. But nothing–nothing–has exceeded my disappointment more than the transformation of Up All Night.
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Archiving Blackness: The DVD and Cultural Memory
Flipping through the post-Christmas sales, I'm reminded of how the TV show on DVD has become an ubiquitous part of our culture. But it's those series or seasons of shows that are not for sale that tell a narrative of what's worthy of archiving within our popular culture and collective memory.
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What Are You Missing? Dec 9-23
What Are You Missing? links back on 2012.
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What Are You Missing? Nov 25 – Dec 8
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Episodic: What Games Learned From TV
While episodic gaming is a new frontier for how developers make games, it is perhaps an even larger divergence in terms of how we play games.
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