Category: Amazon
SUBVERSION OF NOSTALGIA AS A STRATEGY OF ENGAGEMENT IN ALTERNATE HISTORY TV: 11.22.63 AND THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE by Tobias Steiner
Beginning with the popularization and mass availability of television in the 1950s, the medium has...
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THE MARVELOUS MRS. MAISEL: WHITHER THE WOMAN IN THE SPOTLIGHT? by Martha P. Nochimson
Laura Mulvey’s “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” is the gift that enigmatically keeps...
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SKY HIGH… BUT FOR HOW LONG? by John Ellis
It’s all happening around Sky at the moment. The first was an unexpected bid from the US giant...
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QUANTITATIVE STUDIES IN TELEVISION (PART 2): ALGORITHMS IN ACADEMIA by JP Kelly
This is a follow up to my last post for CST. Given that this is a blog about television it seems...
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MORE FEMALE EXECUTIVES WOULD STEM THE SEXIST ROT IN HOLLYWOOD by Lyndsay Duthie
Harvey Weinstein, the Hollywood producer with 300 Oscar nominations, has fallen. After The New...
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CfP: Media Industries special section ‘Global Internet Television’. Deadline: Oct 1, 2017.
CALL FOR PAPERS: Global Internet Television – A Media Industries special section Issue 13,...
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LET’S TALK ABOUT TELEVISION. TELEVISION WATCHING AND THE SECOND SCREEN by Martin R Herbers
Viewing practices in the age of second screens Watching television has always been a social...
Read MoreGIVE IT A WEEK, YOU’LL BE PISSING AND FARTING WITH THE REST OF US: BECOMING GROTESQUE IN ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK by Danielle Hancock
Jenji Kohan’s Orange is the New Black (OITNB) (2013 –) has gained a reputation for unabashedly screening female faces and body-types that centric media often overlooks. From its opening sequence, OITNB spotlights a vast array of...
Read MoreAMAZON STUDIOS by Toby Miller
First it was a river. Then it was a bookstore. Then it sold power drills and pen refills. Now it’s a movie studio inviting one and all to submit scripts and videos? Amazon’s key insight has always been that distribution...
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