Aymar Jean Christian
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Who Can Be Black on TV?
Excellent post, Alfred. And I completely agree that ABG's explicit deployment of interpersonal racial politics makes it unsuitable for today's TV. That her show is "I Hate LA Dudes" is somewhat sad to me. (And I wonder it's fate, ... -
Limited Buyers
I share your ambivalence about Rae's new gig. I believe most of her fans see her as a writer-producer in the vein of Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, but a big part of the problem is the regular buyers of black content-- BET, TVOne, TBS, OWN, Centric-- have ... -
Without knowledge...
Without knowledge of the characters, I can say the clip is still compelling! Its poignancy and self-referentiality comes through. Judging from Chris' description, it looks like OLTL had it both ways: a serious ending set up by meta-hilarity (this cl ... -
YES
You're absolutely right. In fact, some of the most popular web soaps have production values that would scare any USC film student. The focus on story and character in soaps has historically meant production values need not reach to the top of our aes ... -
Search
The role of search is the big question, I think. Right now, there's still too much money in search to abandon it, but if Google is successful in reaching these niches and selling them to advertisers, I wonder if the money from that will offset losses ... -
Great post
This is a fascinating development for print culture, one I'd never really considered. I'm sure many other publications are having this SEO problem, though I imagine a few have mostly ignored it (high culture publications like NYT and New Yorker ... -
Thanks!
Really informative answer. I'm eager to see how wide and fast the iPad spreads; it's amazing that one device could transform another industry like the iPod/iTunes did for music, and maybe Kindle for books. ... -
Re: Disco Fever
Good questions
Great opening questions, Madison! Looking forward to the conference. What makes fashion so interesting to me is it's own of the prime connectors between the self and society: the way an individual expresses him/herself and how society reads us. So St ... -
Awesome
Quite a brilliant reading! As Madison notes, I think you are suggesting black masculinity as partially unstable, which explains why and how homophobia might arise in such spaces of sociality (maybe I'm just borrowing Sedgewick here). The presence of ... -
Independence
I'm so glad you brought this up! Fascinating dynamics here. What I'm most intrigued by is this series' place within CollegeHumor's history as a independent company bought out by publicly traded IAC and as an online comedy destination w ...