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The semiotic similarities between JFK and Don Draper are unmistakable. Each is tall, handsome, and typically turned out in a custom-made dark suit with a matching skinny tie.
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The multiplicity of terms to describe a film composed of televised news extracts, interviews and fictional reconstitutions makes it difficult to classify Denys Granier-Deferre’s Rendez-moi justice
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I’ve been catching a number of butterflies on my television in the last year or so, but they bear little resemblance to the ones that I see from time to time in my backyard. Sitting through an episode from Season Three of Dexter last fall, I was struck by
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In 1969 Alan Lovell wrote a seminar paper on ‘British Cinema: The Unknown Cinema’, ‘unknown’ because of the paucity of scholarly work on British Cinema at the time – a situation which, in 1997, Lovell noted was no longer the case.
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Watching a still image presented on television is almost always interesting. Stills seem to temporarily halt the immediate forward motion of the medium: photographs, drawings and other illustrative matter invite reflection, study, comment and raise our aw
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Making and Remaking Television Classics, 20 March 2009, University of Warwick
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On July 5 2008, the National Film Theatre in London played host to a remarkable event. It was a talk given by one of the central figures in the history of British television drama, David Rose.
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Television and money have a longstanding, deep and expansive relationship, one which scholarship in different national contexts has made the subject of its analysis
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It is a curious experience to watch Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog shortly after watching Sweeney Todd. Dr. Horrible writer-director-composer Joss Whedon is known to be an admirer of Stephen Sondheim, and the connections between the two pieces are fascina
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I'm interested in being an Internet Roger Corman. He's responsible for a slew of the greatest directors of the last couple decades, because he was the only B-movie system that there was. Now the whole world can be that system.
--Joss Whedon (Rosen 33)
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