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Price-Tag TV and the Transformation of Television Prestige - Public Books Apple’s “Price-Tag TV,” to propose a new entrant to the TV name game, is expensive programming about folks who like expensive things, made for viewers who either can’t see or don’t care about the…

The bubble of prestige TV has burst. Netflix serves up good and bad shows, and its algorithm doesn’t editorialize. In recent years, AppleTV+ has emerged as “the new HBO.” But take a closer look, and you see it as a platform for advertising Apple products.

Price-Tag TV and the Transformation of Television Prestige - Public Books Apple’s “Price-Tag TV,” to propose a new entrant to the TV name game, is expensive programming about folks who like expensive things, made for viewers who either can’t see or don’t care about the…

“Apple’s ‘Price-Tag TV,’ to propose a new entrant to the TV name game, is expensive programming about folks who like expensive things, made for viewers who either can’t see or don’t care about the difference between good and expensive.”

Price-Tag TV and the Transformation of Television Prestige - Public Books Apple’s “Price-Tag TV,” to propose a new entrant to the TV name game, is expensive programming about folks who like expensive things, made for viewers who either can’t see or don’t care about the…

New at PB: Michael Szalay considers how AppleTV+, dubbed the new HBO, actually isn't. Rather, its expensively produced offerings prop up Apple’s prestige play, lazy watches for the affluent and self-satisfied.

Check out I Kissed a Girl on BBC and read Tori McCandless’s excellent essay thereon in @publicbooks.bsky.social!

Queer Joy Is Earned—and Requires Earnest Care To view “I Kissed a Girl” as predominantly upbeat is to miss why it’s representation of bad feelings is important.

New at PB, Tori McCandless reviews BBC’s reality show “I Kissed a Girl,” where the “most heartwarming moments correspond to the girls being vulnerable with one another and sharing difficult life experiences underwritten by homophobia, external or internalized.”

Queer Joy Is Earned—and Requires Earnest Care To view “I Kissed a Girl” as predominantly upbeat is to miss why it’s representation of bad feelings is important.

Witnessing the happiness of “I Kissed a Girl’s contestants is possible, Tori McCandless writes, because we also witness their successful navigation of a world that is unwelcoming of difference––which includes navigating a lot of big, often bad feelings.

Queer Joy Is Earned—and Requires Earnest Care To view “I Kissed a Girl” as predominantly upbeat is to miss why it’s representation of bad feelings is important.

Though similar in premise to “Love Island,” BBC’s “I Kissed a Girl” has more wholesome “teachable moments” that aim to present and explore some aspect of queer culture.

Queer Joy Is Earned—and Requires Earnest Care To view “I Kissed a Girl” as predominantly upbeat is to miss why it’s representation of bad feelings is important.

To view “I Kissed a Girl” as predominantly upbeat, Tori McCandless argues, is to miss why it’s important how the show represents bad feelings.

It misses how such bad feelings necessarily correspond to any joy the show represents.

Queer Joy Is Earned—and Requires Earnest Care To view “I Kissed a Girl” as predominantly upbeat is to miss why it’s representation of bad feelings is important.

“What makes ‘I Kissed a Girl’ so great is that it foregrounds queers who openly relay their traumas. And they do so, crucially, without being consumed by such traumas, or erasing the essential differences they reveal.”

Queer Joy Is Earned—and Requires Earnest Care To view “I Kissed a Girl” as predominantly upbeat is to miss why it’s representation of bad feelings is important.

“The good feelings are contingent on a history of listening to her body and realizing that her embodied experience of racism and homophobia offers evidence of what is wrong with the world.”

Queer Joy Is Earned—and Requires Earnest Care To view “I Kissed a Girl” as predominantly upbeat is to miss why it’s representation of bad feelings is important.

“I Kissed a Girl” is full of chaotic gay energy, sex jokes, and campy moments.

But it also beautifully honors the ways in which queer joy is earned.

Hijabs On the Small Screen Only, Please! - Public Books Why is hijabi representation divided between small-screen success and big-screen blunders?

Fantastic piece by Jannat Suleiman out today in @publicbooks.bsky.social www.publicbooks.org/hijabs-on-th...

Hijabs On the Small Screen Only, Please! Why is hijabi representation divided between small-screen success and big-screen blunders?

“Despite the persistent modern dilemma around the diversity and inclusion of Muslim women and hijabi women as a right-wing red herring, it’s the streaming platforms—not the Hollywood executives—that have consistently taken a chance on such characters.”

Hijabs On the Small Screen Only, Please! Why is hijabi representation divided between small-screen success and big-screen blunders?

New at PB: Jannat Suleman (@theamateurstake.bsky.social) tracks the differences in hijabi representation on TV and in films. Hollywood studios, she concludes, rarely portray hijabi women, and when they do, there’s often much that’s misrepresented.

Hijabs On the Small Screen Only, Please! Why is hijabi representation divided between small-screen success and big-screen blunders?

New at PB: Jannat Suleman (@theamateurstake.bsky.social) asks: Why is hijabi representation divided between small-screen success and big-screen blunders?

…the only change is, as people living here know, that law enforcement has again ramped up its usual violence because people again had the courage to fight back against the violence ICE, the cops, and the national guard were already perpetrating.
Fuck the police. Abolish ICE. Free Palestine.

So for anyone with the impression that LA as a whole is burning (baby that already happened a few months ago) or that the city is otherwise uninhabitable (it long has been for many)…

My friend treated a teenager who was bleeding after having been hit by a "less lethal" bullet and that was a “minor" injury.

The notion that dissent should be peaceful is liberal brainwashing at best but I was doing supply runs at the action in DTLA yesterday & it was as usual the cops & the national guard inciting violence against people justifiably angry about being terrorized & deported by ICE.

A bald white man wearing black rectangular glasses leans against a wall. He is wearing a red linen button-down shirt. His arms are crossed and he is smiling mischieviously.

Cover of Diminished Faculties: A Political Phenomenology of Impairment by Jonathan Sterne. Cover features a photograph of a dork-o-phone in its faux-leather case, with lanyard attached. Colors are a hazy blue, red, and green.

We are mourning the loss of Jonathan Sterne: author, editor, contributor, mentor, and friend.
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Rest well Jonathan Sterne, a truly wonderful human in addition to being a brilliant intellect. When I met him he told me he didn’t go to any conference or invited gig unless it promised to be a good time & every time I saw him after that was indeed a good time. Lots of love to all who loved him. 💖

As ICE Jails Palestinian Protester, Universities Must Commit to Academic Freedom Universities may sow their own demise if they continue to aid the suppression of pro-Palestine campus movements.

“By these actions, by their willingness to scapegoat and vilify the pro-Palestine student movement, these institutions have invited their enemies in, becoming testing grounds for the authoritarianism that threatens our nation.”

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All out to free Mahmoud Khalil in Federal Plaza today! 🔥

a photo of a few hundred protesters gathered in NYC

A crowd has gathered for the NYC protest against the illegal ICE arrest of Columbia grad student Mahmoud Khalil. Protesters are chanting and calling for his immediate release.

Multiple helicopters overhead.

re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens

Want efficiency? Get rid of the cops.

Sometimes being in an English department is so fucking wild

Serbia: opposition leaders throw grenades in solidarity with student protestors

US: opposition leaders grumble in their seats

This man is still speaking

Did that piece of shit just throw gum at his wife