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Populist or Prestige? Amazon’s Attempts to Brand Pilot Season
This week, Amazon Studios debuted the third round of its “Pilot Season,” an online showcase for its original scripted series. The key hook of Pilot Season is that the studio posts pilot episodes of its...
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Drive-Ins, and the Stubborn Usefulness of Film Nostalgia
Interstellar (2014) made its well-known debut last weekend. In Chicago, the film (yes, we can still call it that) screened in its “intended” format of 70mm at the Navy Pier IMAX. Its appearance there...
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WWE Network’s 1-Year Anniversary: A Conversation (Part 1)
On February 24, 2014, WWE launched the WWE Network, an over-the-top (OTT) Internet-only channel that included a continuous stream of programming as well as on-demand content. For the Network’s 1-year...
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WWE Network’s 1-Year Anniversary: A Conversation (Part 2)
Continuing their conversation from earlier this week Cory Barker & Drew Zolides discuss the 1-year anniversary of the WWE Network and its future legacy. DREW: What do you make of the financial...
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Straddling the “Edge”: The Invisible Trend of Religion on TV
One of the most compelling trends in American television programming at the moment is almost never even seen as a trend. A variety of shows in various stages of development or production that feature...
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Black Widow and Whedon Exceptionalism: Accounting for Sexism in Age of Ultron...
Post by Piers Britton, University of Redlands As I started planning this post, a few days before the general release of the second Avengers movie, issues of authorship and creative control—and...
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Disney Deletes TRON 3: End of Line?
Post by Nicholas Benson, University of Wisconsin-Madison In the wake of the news that Disney will not move forward with the (unconfirmed) plans to make a third TRON film, fans of the TRON universe...
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Notes from the Telluride Film Festival
Post by Mary Beth Haralovich, University of Arizona A film festival is an individual experience. For Tucsonans, the Telluride Film Festival begins with a long day’s drive from 2,500 feet to 10,000...
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TIFF 2015 Report
Originally known as the “Festival of Festivals,” the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) celebrated its 40th anniversary between September 10th and 20th. The ten-day annual festival is a...
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Original or Exclusive? Shifts in Television Financing and Distribution Shift...
By Amanda D. Lotz and Timothy Havens In addition to increasing the possible objects of study, broadband-distributed television services have introduced new challenges to grounding the television...
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