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Even after departing this world, artists have plenty of legal tools to protect their creative vision.
Due to conflicts over music rights and the high cost of adapting the show to HD, the series had become overshadowed by its spiritual successor, ‘The Wire.’
Kaos is a thrilling romp about gods and mortals vying for power and influence over the cosmos.
Documentaries both old and new shine in this month’s pickings from our experts.
The show charts the journey of a group of young men aged between 19 and 23 through a strict, 100-day training process, leading to their debut as a band called Dear Alice.
The argument that we need to protect sports gambling ads to look after the interests of giant media brands has little merit. Losing this revenue would hurt, but the industry would be able to adapt.
Over the past half-century, American media has usually proclaimed that Black men and white women can be great presidents. But they have to be one or the other: a Black man or a white woman.
Interview with the Vampire season two asks: ‘What happens to trauma, if you live forever?’
In medieval Europe, vigilantism was rampant. Though there were rudimentary efforts to develop legal frameworks, the precepts could be bizarre, with justice sporadic and unevenly applied.
Many sports fans will suffer sleep deprivation as they stay up to watch the Olympics but there are ways to minimise it and bounce back after the closing ceremony.
Australian teenagers have grown up with abundant choices in digital screen entertainment. But they aren’t watching much Aussie content.
The top picks from our academic experts, from Fancy Dance to House of the Dragon.
While people now reflect on how or whether Nixon’s sweaty, haggard appearance during the debate cost him the election, the view in 1960 was that the debate was a draw.
Whether you like Ladies in Black or not will depend on if you like shopping, fashion, stories with female leads about female friendship, clever music and 60s costumes.
Despite the series retaining elements of the novel that frustrated me, this time, I saw things a bit differently.
From Disney Pixar’s latest hit to the winner of the Women’s Prize for fiction, these are the best things to watch and read this week.
Just as the novel drew attention to the whiteness of the chick-lit genre, the TV adaptation draws attention to the whiteness of chick-flicks.
Nostalgia can provide emotional relief during times of stress, a fact which the entertainment industry takes full advantage of to profit off of the anxiety of Millenials and Gen Z.
Because public access TV was relatively unregulated, shows could talk about sexual health and air racier segments that would have otherwise been censored on broadcast networks.
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Deputy Associate Dean of Learning & Teaching, Senior Lecturer in Screen Media, Victoria University
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Professor of Media Studies, Queensland University of Technology
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Senior Lecturer in Communication, University of Technology Sydney
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Former Honorary Research Associate, School of Media and Communication, RMIT University
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Associate Professor and Cinema and Screen Studies Discipline Leader, Swinburne University of Technology
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Senior Lecturer, School of Media, Film and Journalism, Monash University
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Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Texas at Arlington
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Research Fellow, Media & Communications, RMIT University
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Professor & Dean, School of Media and Communication, RMIT University
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Lecturer in Journalism, University of Technology Sydney
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Emeritus Professor of Cultural Research, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University
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Senior Lecturer in English Literature, Charles Sturt University
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Senior Lecturer in Sport Management, Deakin University
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Professor of Political History, University of Nottingham
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Professor in Digital Media and Cutural Studies, Queensland University of Technology
