Dennis Broe
LATEST ARTICLES BY Dennis Broe
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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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Diana Dors v. Marilyn Monroe: Class, crime, and the ‘Blonde Bombshell’
March 1, 2023An offering for Women's History Month.
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Where have all the comedians gone? Just asking…
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Dispatch from war-torn Europe: A pared-down Vienna Christmas-New Year
January 31, 2023In more subtle ways Europe in general, and Austria’s capital city in particular, is showing signs of deterioration.
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Top 25 series for 2022: Rising above the corporate glut
December 20, 2022In the wake of the near collapse of the major streaming services in 2022, and parallel to the wave of retrenchment and belt-tightening, series still trended toward homogenization.
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The business of streaming 2022: ‘The one where the whole thing nearly collapsed’
December 6, 2022The Big Three streaming companies, Disney+, Netflix and HBO, have all sustained losses in both subscribers and market valuation over the last year.
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Social realist TV: Escaping the corporate streaming bubble
November 15, 2022Each of these series in its own way counters both the big budget “metaverses” of the corporate streamers and the flashy and insincere casting of other series.
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The attack on Documenta 15: Whys and wherefores
October 3, 2022Documenta 15 has been unceasingly attacked by Western critics as being anti-Semitic, anti-Zionist and anti-Israeli.
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