television
Fran Drescher: SAG-AFTRA strike is a fight against Hollywood studio bosses’ greed
July 14, 2023Union president declares, “The eyes of the world and particularly the eyes of labor are upon us.”
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Apocalyptic TV and climate change: Don’t worry, be glum, part 2
July 5, 2023The final lesson of Snowpiercer is that if the world is shorn of its capitalist billionaires, its various and diverse peoples will find compromises that can yet save humanity.
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Apocalyptic TV and global warming: Don’t worry, be glum
June 30, 2023Fredric Jameson’s famous dictum that “It’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism” has been taken up wholeheartedly by the makers of corporate television.
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After the peak: As financial crisis expands, so does the streaming TV wasteland
May 3, 2023The writers are fighting back with the time-honored weapon of the strike, but expect lower quality, more conservative TV in the future.
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Where have all the comedians gone? Just asking…
February 13, 2023The U.S./NATO proxy war against Russia in Ukraine has prompted a default line in many places in Western societies but none more prominent perhaps than in comedy, where comic heroes and satirists of the past have...
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