Posts Tagged ‘Battlestar’
Complex TV: Comprehension
It’s been a dormant month of July on the book-writing/publishing front, as I’ve been busy returning from my year abroad in Germany, settling back in Vermont, and having some family vacation time. I do hope to resume writing and pre-publication, as I have only a few more chapters left to go before I’ve got a […]
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Tags: Battlestar, cognition, curb your enthusiasm, dexter, Lost, memory, Veronica Mars
Serial Boxes
Last summer, I was invited as a keynote presenter for a conference on serial form at the University of Zurich – I blogged previously about the conference and my presentation. Now the conference organizers are publishing the proceedings, translating all of the English papers into German. Since I spoke off an outline, I needed to […]
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Tags: Battlestar, bsg, dvd, Lost, Six Feet Under, The Wire
Time for my next chunk of Best TV of the Decade list, but first I want to point readers to my guest appearance on the excellent Television on the Internet podcast (now posted), where I debate many of these programs (and some that won’t appear on my list at all) with Todd VanDerWerff and Libby […]
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Tags: alias, angel, Battlestar, best of the decade, curb your enthusiasm, firefly, freaks and geeks, gilmore girls, malcolm in the middle, pushing daisies, Six Feet Under, the office, Veronica Mars, west wing
As is typical for me at the end of the school year, my to-do list has a pile of publishing projects that I’ve put off to the last minute. So I’ve spent the last month knocking things off the list with general success – I revised an essay on Lostpedia that will be coming out […]
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Tags: Arrested Development, Battlestar, Lost, memory, Six Feet Under, The Wire, Veronica Mars
I’ve been thinking a lot about authorship lately, in a range of ways. Most practically, two long-gestating essays that I authored have come out in print – “All in the Game: The Wire, Serial Storytelling and Procedural Logic” is published in the beautifully put-together book Third Person: Authoring and Exploring Vast Narratives edited by Pat […]
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Tags: authorship, Battlestar, bsg, faith, Lost, The Wire
Remembering Battlestar
Like many, I’ve spent the last couple of days watching and thinking about the Battlestar Galactica finale – my spoiling thoughts are below the fold, both on the finale and some ties between the series and my research on television narrative. On Facebook, a few of my media scholar/blogger friends and I thought it might […]
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Tags: Battlestar, bsg, finale, science fiction, The Wire
To Spread or To Drill?
I was invited by Henry Jenkins, Josh Green, and Sam Ford to contribute to a book project they are working on, Spreadable Media: Creating Value in a Network Culture.You can see an outline of the project posted serially on Henry’s blog, emerging from a research paper drafted as part of the Convergence Culture Consortium. The […]
Filed under: Books, Fandom, Media Studies, Narrative, New Media, Television, Viewers | 23 Comments
Tags: Battlestar, bsg, complexity, Lost, lostpedia
Best of 2008
One of the great gifts of having a blog is the opportunity to spout off opinions as if they are truth. And the end of the year is the time for bold opinions that quantify the previous year, often in multiples of ten. I thought about offering a TV Top Ten for the year, but […]
Filed under: Film, New Media, Not Quite TV, Television, TV Shows | 6 Comments
Tags: 30 rock, Battlestar, breaking bad, bsg, celtics, chuck, colbert, daily show, dark knight, death cab, dj earworm, dr. horrible, friday night lights, gta4, Lost, middleman, portal, pushing daisies, rachel maddow, radiohead, red sox, the bad plus, the office, The Wire, true blood, tv on the radio
Belated Battlestar Blogging
So Battlestar Galactica‘s 3rd season has come and gone – I’ve got to say something. We just finished watching the season finale, after binging on the season for the past few weeks and arriving at the end one week late. As a card-carrying member of the TiVo/TV-on-DVD generation, my mode of TV viewing has settled […]
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