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  NBC Comedy, 2011 Style

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  Ethan Thompson Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi

  September 22, 2011

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  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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  An Award without Ceremony: The Critics' Consensus

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  Karen Petruska University of California, Santa Barbara

  September 16, 2011

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  requirement that a program must earn a two-thirds (2/3) consensus from the critics to win. Though “consensus” ...
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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

  5 comments

  Curator's Note While it’s not uncommon for stars to indulge in self-deprecation upon winning a major ... shows, Falco skips over humble and lands on incredulous, citing her win as “ridiculous” because she’s, ... between the two genres are competing in comedy categories, and winning. Falco’s win is part of a growing ...
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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

  While the network/cable split might ensure that big network shows might win more trophies, it would also ...
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  Re: Best Actress in a Dramedic Role?: The Emmy Awards' Genre Problem

  Blue Ribbon panel

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  Karen Petruska University of California, Santa Barbara

  Wednesday, September 14, 2011 — 2:58 pm

  Falco's win a testament to the strategizing that goes on behind the scenes?  Put her in the comedic ...
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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

  wins help shape broadcasting history?  Will the continued insistence on the Comedy/Drama binary distort ...
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  Re: Spike VGAs: Celebration or Ghettoization?

  Gaming and/as Culture

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  Myles McNutt University of Wisconsin - Madison

  Wednesday, September 14, 2011 — 5:51 am

  difficult it would be to quantify the value to nominated and winning games, and considering how reductive ...
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  Spike VGAs: Celebration or Ghettoization?

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  John Vanderhoef UCSB

  September 14, 2011

  5 comments

  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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  Guilt by Association: The Grammys, The Recording Industry, and Representing Popular Music Culture

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  Kyle Barnett Bellarmine University

  September 13, 2011

  6 comments

  Best New Artist or the Arcade Fire’s Album of the Year win. While I imagine a Grammys that could better ...
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  Re: Guilt by Association: The Grammys, The Recording Industry, and Representing Popular Music Culture

  Some great thoughts here,

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  Myles McNutt University of Wisconsin - Madison

  Tuesday, September 13, 2011 — 1:32 am

  heard of win Grammys, but they win the untelevised Grammys. I watched a lot of that ceremony last year, ... seeing wins by acts like La Roux and Tia Carrere (for an award, Hawaiian Album, that will no longer ...

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