Category: media

“Through some strange alchemy, Technicolor films seemed preternaturally rich and bright. In the Depression-era US of the 1930s or the austerity Britain of the postwar years, Technicolor offered a gateway to another world.”

“Among the industry’s sins, according to the movie: blowing up the city again and again, just because it’s there to be turned into a fireball; denigrating the city’s great Modernist houses by making them the residences of villains or mentally unstable antiheroes; and ignoring neighborhoods that are not white or wealthy.”

“Nielsen has admitted to recently discovering a ‘technical error’ that has impacted national network television ratings over the past several months.”

“Brazil-based site Cennarium will see users around the world able to access recordings of theatre, dance and opera from a variety of countries, with surtitles in more than 20 languages.”

“The days of female movie stars retreating to cable – HBO, Showtime, FX – to find good work are coming to a close. Now, by the grace of, well, something, actresses can find plenty of exciting leading roles to play on the big four networks. … How did that happen?”

“Citing the role of broadcast media as an ‘important vessel’ for ‘transmitting socialist culture and core values,’ the new regulations claim that the illegal behavior of actors has ‘corrupted the social atmosphere’ and creates a ‘detrimental influence on the development of many young people’.”

Schiller left her post-NPR job as chief digital officer for NBC News to become Twitter’s first-ever head of news and journalism partnerships – a job that has evidently been eliminated in a senior staff consolidation.

“Within two months over the summer of ’79, disco went from hero to zero, banished from the airwaves in a blacklist that persists, arguably, to this day. Now it’s superheroes hailed as the pop cult panacea for the industry’s financial woes, with Marvel and DC proudly trumpeting enough comic book flicks to populate screens big and small until 2028.”

“What does it take for an Asian male to get some action on TV? While there have been trailblazing Asian male actors, such as George Takei on Star Trek and B.D. Wong on Law & Order: SVU, few of them have played characters who have had romantic relationships.”

But “we’re on a new frontier of interactive media: the virtual-reality simulation, as heralded by Oculus Rift and Google Glass, seems poised to break into the mainstream.”