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The Oscars, Star-Studies Style
On Thursday, I informed my students in Hollywood Stars that their homework for the weekend would focus on the Oscars. After all, The Oscars are a star scholar’s Super Bowl: as much as we like to...
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Retransmission Consent as Awards Show
A poster from an earlier retransmission consent battle Last Sunday was a double nail biter for Oscar enthusiasts who subscribed to Cablevision in the NYC metro area. Not only were they nervously...
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The Gilded Globes: Legitimacy Amidst Controversy
While the internet is abuzz over Ricky Gervais’ mean-spirited material as host of this year’s Golden Globe awards, much of the controversy comes from his remarks relating to closeted scientologists or...
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What Are You Missing? January 16-29
Ten (or more) media industry stories you might have missed recently: 1. This one deserves a standalone entry of its very own: Cheezburger Network, the company behind LOLcats, just raised $30 million in...
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What Are You Missing? April 3-16
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently: 1. Theater owners have responded angrily to the studios’ premium VOD plans, with AMC Theaters issuing vague threats and some...
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What Are You Missing? Sept 11-24
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently: 1. With bookstores dying, chains and independents alike, many have great expectations for digitization. Thankfully, libraries...
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Award Winning: The 84th Annual Academy Awards
I suddenly have a strong desire to go buy tickets to a movie at my local theater and ask everyone I know to go with me and cancel my Neflix account and–wait a minute. Maybe that’s just the Oscars...
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“We Saw Your Misogyny”: The Oscars & Seth MacFarlane
It’s the moment I wait for every semester–when something happens in popular culture and opens up an opportunity to reaffirm with my students, friends, and family why the work that media scholars do...
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Oscars 2014: It’s Time
At the end of her opening monologue for the 86th Academy Awards, host Ellen DeGeneres pointedly anticipated how the ceremony would shake out: “Possibility number one: 12 Years a Slave wins Best...
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Negotiations and Regressions of Cultural Politics in Disney’s Frozen
Since even before its release in November of last year, Disney’s Frozen has been the subject of much debate surrounding the contemporary socio-cultural politics and positioning of Disney as a whole,...
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