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  It's Alive!!!

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  Rebecca Housel Wiley-Blackwell

  June 21, 2011

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  singularity, though if humanity does reach an event horizon, no one can even begin to realistically predict the ...
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  Stranger in a strange land: Quality television's episodic failures

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  Cory Barker Bradley University

  April 21, 2011

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  Stranger in a strange land: Quality television's episodic failures TV Failure The Sopranos quality TV Lost Coupling Battlestar Galactica ABC Curator's Note The phrase "television failure" recalls high-profile series that couldn’t live ...
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  Guilt by Association: The Grammys, The Recording Industry, and Representing Popular Music Culture

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  Kyle Barnett Bellarmine University

  September 13, 2011

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  Guilt by Association: The Grammys, The Recording Industry, and Representing Popular Music Culture TV Failure recording industry popular music Grammys Curator's Note As a University of Texas grad student, my colleagues studied film or television and I ...
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  Spike VGAs: Celebration or Ghettoization?

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  John Vanderhoef UCSB

  September 14, 2011

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  Spike VGAs: Celebration or Ghettoization? video game awards TV Failure spike vgas gender and gaming gaming culture Curator's Note Since 2003, the Spike TV Video Game Awards (VGAs) have aired every December to the collected groans of most gamers, desp ...
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  Losing to Win: Twin Peaks and Serial "Failure"

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  Anne Moore Tufts University

  April 20, 2011

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  Losing to Win: Twin Peaks and Serial "Failure" Twin Peaks TV Failure soap operas seriality procedurals mysteries Curator's Note  What do we mean by "TV failures"? There are many ways to categorize television failure, but the most ...
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  "It's Not You...It's Nielsen": Cancellation Heartbreak and Measurement Magic

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  Ryan Bowles UC Santa Barbara Department of Film and Media Studies

  April 19, 2011

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  "It's Not You...It's Nielsen": Cancellation Heartbreak and Measurement Magic TV Failure ratings Production Culture Nielsen cancellation Audience Measurement Curator's Note Success is never giving up, or so they say. Failure, on th ...