Archives for the 'Artistic Middle Class' Category
Has big media found its kryptonite? Superman creators reclaim copyright!
It’s somewhat bad form to let out a loud WHOOP! at an academic conference. Nevertheless, that’s what I did yesterday morning at the AAAs when Jason Hirschorn’s fantastic “Media ReDEFined” daily newsletter informed me, in the words of the New York Times story, that: A federal judge here on Wednesday ruled that the heirs of [...]
Parting shots on how media is changing…
…before I take the rest of the year off from blogging… especially since seem to have already stopped blogging back in November– oy! So much is going on and I’ve been traveling so much that I’m going to put my lack-of-blogging guilt on hold until the start of January. So, before I exit stage left, [...]
Yes, box office is up this summer, but don’t get comfy
Variety Editor-in-Chief Peter Bart’s Monday column on the surprising health of the summer movie box office entirely misses the point. True, box office is up this summer, but the real story here is with the consolidation of tickets sold among a mere handful of movies. Both culturally and on an entertainment-industry wide basis, we’re seeing [...]
