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  Nights @ Indian Call Centers

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  James Daniel Elam Northwestern University

  October 26, 2009

  1 comment

  are possible when the other you’re "viewing" is otherwise unseeable? ...
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  Jack Black, Yo Gabba Gabba, and Kid-Cult Appeal

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  Jason Mittell Middlebury College

  October 21, 2009

  3 comments

  Jack Black, Yo Gabba Gabba, and Kid-Cult Appeal children television yo gabba gabba children's television Curator's Note One key strategy that has been common throughout the history of media targeting children is offering a dual appeal to adults ...
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  Tween Comedies and the Evolution of a Genre

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  Michael Z. Newman University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee

  October 19, 2009

  5 comments

  with multiple cameras from one side of a three-wall set.   Plots follow the “hilarity ensues…” ...
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  TV Azteca, Oster Kitchen Appliances, and Mexico's Privileged

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  Chad Thomas Beck Indiana University

  October 16, 2009

  3 comments

  TV Azteca, Oster Kitchen Appliances, and Mexico's Privileged target audiences social class Race/Ethnicity product integration Mexican television Curator's Note  My approach to integrated (in-program) advertising is to analyze how its presence in ...
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  Re: Genre Matters

  Context

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  andreas thatcher NONE

  Friday, October 16, 2009 — 7:38 pm

  both sides, as Robert points out with District 9. This has built on its predecessors from Cloverfield ...
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  Re: Genre Matters

  Reception

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  Chad Thomas Beck Indiana University

  Friday, October 16, 2009 — 5:02 pm

  texts.   I’m curious how adapting the documentary to the science fiction genre altered the textual form ...
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  Genre Matters

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  andreas thatcher NONE

  October 15, 2009

  5 comments

  to sacrifice journalism standards for a wider audience. But new financing possibilities allow ...
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  "Would you like a treatment?": Dollhouse, pain, and memory

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  Erika Johnson-Lewis St. Petersburg College

  October 14, 2009

  4 comments

  "Would you like a treatment?": Dollhouse, pain, and memory mediation Dollhouse pain programming blank slates Curator's Note The central premise of Dollhouse is that the human brain can be “wiped” of its original consciousness and a new cons ...
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  Disjuncture and Difference in The Amazing Race

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  Robert Moses Peaslee Texas Tech University

  October 13, 2009

  1 comment

  understanding of the shifting “scapes” made possible in international media environments. It is an eloquent ...
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  Re: Convert Now! Crowdsourcing DTV Outreach

  Max, I'm glad to see some

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  Marusya Bociurkiw Ryerson University, Toronto

  Monday, October 12, 2009 — 11:24 pm

  Max, I'm glad to see some ideological critique of HD conversion. As far back as the early 80's, some pundits suggested that HDTV would provide television audiences with such intense viewing experiences that audience members will want to continue ...

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