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  Re: Best Actress in a Dramedic Role?: The Emmy Awards' Genre Problem

  is this the main problem?

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  Karen Petruska University of California, Santa Barbara

  Wednesday, September 14, 2011 — 11:17 am

  overshadowed by the premium cable programs and their bags of money?  Are the possible winners, therefore, ...
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  Re: Best Actress in a Dramedic Role?: The Emmy Awards' Genre Problem

  Expectation

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  Myles McNutt University of Wisconsin - Madison

  Wednesday, September 14, 2011 — 7:23 pm

  I think that everyone involved wants to play down that hierarchy as much as possible, as it plays into ... possible, will they not have had access to the other materials (promos, for example) which help mediate ...
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  Best Actress in a Dramedic Role?: The Emmy Awards' Genre Problem

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  Myles McNutt University of Wisconsin - Madison

  September 15, 2011

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  Best Actress in a Dramedic Role?: The Emmy Awards' Genre Problem dramedy Emmy Awards genre Curator's Note While it’s not uncommon for stars to indulge in self-deprecation upon winning a major entertainment award, something was different when Edi ...
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  Fall Variations on Nostalgia

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  Sharon Marie Ross TV Department, Columbia College

  September 20, 2011

  2 comments

  I’m a sucker for seeing actors return to TV. Yes, I will largely tune into X Factor to see Paula and ...
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  NBC Comedy, 2011 Style

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  Ethan Thompson Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi

  September 22, 2011

  2 comments

  NBC Comedy, 2011 Style up all night seinfeld NBC fall season comedy arnett Curator's Note I watched Up All Night, a new NBC sitcom starring two supremely talented comic actors (Will Arnett and Maya Rudolph) and another exceptional one, Christina Appl ...
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  Can TV See Class? Or How I learned to Stop Worrying and Believe in the American Dream

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  Robert Cannon California State University, Los Angeles

  September 23, 2011

  1 comment

  Can TV See Class? Or How I learned to Stop Worrying and Believe in the American Dream working class television class determinism class American dream Curator's Note It's been three years since The Wire  left television and academia still can ...
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  Re: NBC Comedy, 2011 Style

  Qualified optimism

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  Megan Mullen University of Wisconsin-Parkside

  Sunday, September 25, 2011 — 5:30 pm

  the past week, I'm feeling cautious optimism about the possible return of the sitcom. Not that ... possible disappearance of cable-specific program genres. That wasn't to say that cable can't ...
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  One Man Army: Ultimate Warfighters and Interchangeable Tough Guys

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  Charity Fox University of Baltimore

  September 28, 2011

  4 comments

  universe (I’m looking at you, Real Housewives) – there is a tone of respectful collegiality infusing the ...
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  The Great American Dream Machine

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  Laurie Ouellette University of Minnesota

  October 03, 2011

  6 comments

  evidences the unrealized possibilities (and inherent tensions) of public television in the U.S. ...
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  Re: The Great American Dream Machine

  I had the exact same reaction

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  Allison Perlman University of California-Irvine

  Monday, October 3, 2011 — 5:16 pm

  unrealized possibilities of public TV. The commemorative broadcast of The Great American Dream Machine is ...

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