A look at Māori television media convergence and multiplatform expansion.
Read more »
Posts Tagged ‘ television ’
Convergence Culture, Māori-Style: The Browning-Up of New Zealand?
Glee: Kurt and the Casting Couch
In the second episode of Glee’s new season, “I Am Unicorn,” Kurt’s character loses the romantic lead in the school musical, West Side Story, to his more masculine boyfriend Blaine. The episode was both fascinating and confounding because instead of interrogating masculinist gender hierarchies, usually one of the show’s great strengths, the show affirmed...
Read more »
What Are You Missing? Sept 25-Oct 8
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
Read more »
Still late to the party? TV adaptation modes for foreign audiences
Are Italian audiences different from American audiences because they are culturally and linguistically dissimilar or because local distribution choices affect their consumption of a given audiovisual product?
Read more »
What Are You Missing? Sept 11-24
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
Read more »
Updated! Premiere Week 2011: CBS
It's premiere week! Check back regularly for our contributors thoughts on all the new CBS shows! Responses so far: 2 Broke Girls, Unforgettable, Person of Interest and A Gifted Man.
Read more »
What Are You Missing? Aug 28-Sept 10
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
Read more »
What Are You Missing? August 14-27
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
Read more »
You Have Friends That Want You Back Home
Treme’s focus on how its culture and cultural economies are created and presented through music and cuisine has meant a majority of its almost 22 narrative hours watching musicians struggle with bar owners, the recording business, the law and each other.
Read more »
Report From London: Final Thoughts
Christine Becker wraps up her reports about British television with a collection of observations.
Read more »
Report From London: The Week That Was
Christine Becker checks out what was on British terrestrial TV last week and finds death and apples.
Read more »
Music is a Character
That night Donald told me that music was a character on Treme. That made some sense to me, having argued in the past that product plugging turned commodities into characters on sitcoms. But that was a criticism. How did it work for the culture of jazz on TV exactly?
Read more »
Report From London: Content Regulation
Christine Becker assesses the level and regulation of graphic content on British TV (and relays a naughty joke).
Read more »
Report From London: Channels
Christine Becker outlines the multichannel landscape of British television.
Read more »
Tremé: Feels Like Joy and Pain
The challenge facing Tremé (and every other media representation of New Orleans) is finding a way to balance a celebration of the city’s unique cultural contributions with an acknowledgment of its more conventional, and often more damning, histories, memories, and contemporary realities. Week 6’s episode “Feels Like Rain” responds to this challenge, self-consciously,...
Read more »