Culture
Streaming platforms vs. Media sovereignty: Netflix and others challenge national broadcasters
August 10, 2021The power of the American streamers is forcing national films and television series to dilute their content in order to also reach a global audience.
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Black women laundry workers finally get their due as organizers and leaders
August 9, 2021As a history of laundry workers and their 108-year struggle for justice from 1912 to 2020, Jenny Carson's book comes at an important time.
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Bezos in space: When the world isn’t enough, exploit the whole galaxy
August 4, 2021The year is 2075. The location is the Amazon Mars Fulfillment Center.
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Wilder’s classic Our Town gets 21st century treatment—Race, class, and all
August 3, 2021In 'The Last, Best Small Town', playwright John Guerra has adapted Thornton Wilder’s 1938 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, resetting the turn-of-the-last-century Grover’s Corner, New Hampshire at turn-of-the-21st-century Fillmore, California.
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Battle for the soul of popular media: COVID, Cannes, and conglomerates
August 2, 2021What Cannes tell us about the future of watching film in theaters, on TVs and on computers.
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