We'll never know exactly why anyone wins Emmys, but the process weighed heavily in HBO's dominance at this year's ceremony.
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Posts Tagged ‘ TV ’
A New Brand of Tea Leaves?: The 2015 Emmy Awards
On Radio: The Influence of Comedy Podcasts on TV Narrative, Production, and Cross-Promotion
The influence and overlap between the worlds of podcasting and television (and live comedy) is expanding as visual and audio media continue to fragment, making issues of narrative construction and narrative influence ripe for questioning,
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The Many Faces of Tatiana: The Orphan Black Finale
The season 2 finale of Orphan Black effectively showcased Tatiana Maslany's acting abilities, especially in its impromptu dance scene that featured the four clones.
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Gogglebox: A Crash Course on Personal Politics in the UK
For a foreigner in the UK, the most telling part of this observational documentary are British households’ responses to recent political events.
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There Are Worse Things Fox Could Do: Grease Live and TV’s Sad Affair with the Live Musical
In the era of multiple platform viewing and increased time-shifting, television turns to the musical. But Fox's selection of Grease seems to ignore a string of warning signs.
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On Kale, Transmedia, and Winning GISHWHES
On winning GISHWHES (Greatest Scavenger Hunt the World Has Ever Seen), which enacts the fannish/digital ethos of playful creativity, experimentation, and community awareness in the world.
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I, Reboot (Part II)
This second installment of "I, Reboot" dives into the origins of the reboot-as-narrative-analogy and distinguishes "reboot" from "ret-con."
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Only Marginally More Unreal: Reconsidering CNN’s Coverage of Malaysia Airlines 370
With its reliance on speculation, dependence on simulation, and occasional swerves into absurdity, CNN's coverage of Malaysia Airlines 370 indexes the incomprehensibility of this disaster, marked by the failures of so many systems that seemed to promise safety, visibility, and order.
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Amazon’s Betas: From the Valley to the City
Space is not neutral, especially the mobile app world in San Francisco.
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The Cultural Lives of Doctor Who: The Hype of the Doctor
In this final post in Antenna's The Cultural Lives of Doctor Who series, Matt Hills looks at the promotion and marketing that's occurred around the Doctor Who franchise across 2013.
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Fordian Slip: On the Mayor Rob Ford Scandal
The underlying discourse of the interview is that media scrutiny and critique is the modus operandi of liberal/leftist/elitists. But who, exactly, are the elitists?
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Fall Premieres 2013: ABC
Antenna contributors review the new fall series from the alphabet network.
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Fall Premieres 2013: NBC
Antenna contributors review the new fall series from the peacock network.
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Enough Said? Beasts of the Southern Wild, SharkNado, and Extreme Weather
In this short post I’d like to juxtapose an unlikely pair of films in order to push harder at the taken-for-granted mythologies of extreme weather: SharkNado and Beasts of the Southern Wild.
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Why Netflix is Not Emmy’s Online TV Vanguard
Netflix's nominations have been signaled as historical for online television, but they were earned through efforts to erase that distinction.
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