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Campaign Contributions: “Mainstreaming” the Emmy Race
Within mainstream culture, an entertainment award show is a two-to-three-hour television event that celebrates a particular industry, or a particular niche within an industry, on a grand stage. Here at...
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The Cheese Stands Alone: Downton Abbey’s Emmy Coup
According to the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, the five best-written comedy episodes of the 2011-2012 season were from four shows: FX’s Louie, NBC’s Parks and Recreation (with two...
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The Broadcast Battleground of the 2012 Emmy Awards
At the bottom of the screen during the Emmy Awards telecast, a chyron would occasionally pop us to inform viewer that a particular actor or actress was only a short time away. It turned into a fun game...
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Report From the TV Academy Faculty Seminar (Part 1)
Every fall, the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation invites twenty Media Studies and Production faculty members out to Los Angeles for a week of panels and studio visits hosted by TV...
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Why Netflix is Not Emmy’s Online TV Vanguard
Every year the Primetime Emmy Award nominations tell a story. Most times, though, it’s a story about the nuances of the Emmys themselves; when Downton Abbey made the switch from miniseries to drama...
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Self-Important Spectacle: The 2013 Emmy Awards
When Stephen Colbert accepted his first of two awards on behalf of his team at The Colbert Report, which took home the Emmy for Writing for a Variety Series before ending compatriot Jon Stewart’s...
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Beyond the Nominations: The Emmys and Representation
During last year’s Emmy Awards ceremony, Kerry Washington was feted by Diahann Carroll as a beacon for diversity in an award show dominated by white actors and actresses, particularly in lead...
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Choose Your Own Narrative: The 2014 Emmy Awards
When Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson took to the stage to present this year’s Emmy Award for Lead Actor in a TV Movie or Miniseries, Harrelson cracked a joke about McConaughey having all of the...
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A New Brand of Tea Leaves?: The 2015 Emmy Awards
Predicting the Emmy Awards is a fool’s errand, even in the grand scheme of the fallibility of award predictions: whereas the Oscars have precursor awards (primarily the Guilds) with voting base...
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