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NBC Comedy, 2011 Style

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Ethan Thompson Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi

September 22, 2011

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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Fall Variations on Nostalgia

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Sharon Marie Ross TV Department, Columbia College

September 20, 2011

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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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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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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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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: Post-Cinematic Effects

Old School 'Old Boy'

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Sean Geoghegan Cardiff University

Friday, September 9, 2011 — 10:43 am

distancing effect/ lack of close ups. We are made to watch, are not ‘in’ the action, neither on the side of ...

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Re: Touching the Past (Virtually)

Grounded in (and Dizzied by) History

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Eric LeMay Ohio University

Thursday, September 8, 2011 — 7:02 pm

clip richly demonstrates the possibilities of imbuing a particular place, though media, with its own ... the possibilities for additional stories in any one spot— Times Square, say—become dizzying and ... which users can develop and add personal content. I’m thinking of projects, for example, like ...

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Touching the Past (Virtually)

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Kathleen M. Ryan University of Colorado, Boulder

September 08, 2011

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my current project, I’m using oral history interviews with World War II veterans as well as archival ...

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Documenting Change in Points of Contact

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Ben Miller Georgia State University

September 07, 2011

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just one possible path. That path of meaningful movement through media is built on a piece of technical ... alluded to during an interview, possibly regarding pride, nationalism, or the shifted identities of former ...

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Re: The Marlboro Marine and His Collaborators: Documentary as Collective