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• In Media Res
  Re: Reading the Transnational in the Local. Or, How the Local Travels: The Case of Survival Guide Untuk Kampung Radioaktif

  Aniko, yours are certainly

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  Fiona Lee CUNY Graduate Center

  Saturday, January 28, 2012 — 7:56 am

  Aniko, yours are certainly important questions and I'm still working through them myself. I think you're on to something about linking humor and translation. The risk of humor is that it allows the films' entertainment value to potentially ...
• In Media Res
  Re: Collaborative Audience Engagement: A New Model for Activist Filmmakers

  Labor

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  Fiona Lee CUNY Graduate Center

  Saturday, January 28, 2012 — 8:11 am

  Thanks for your post, Sheila. I'm glad that you highlight the labor--often unpaid and so demanding--involved in these efforts. Also, the ubiquity of viral videos makes it seem like posting something on Youtube allows it to magically reach a large aud ...
• In Media Res
  Re: A Lesbian History of Socialism

  Glass cage

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  Fiona Lee CUNY Graduate Center

  Thursday, January 26, 2012 — 3:30 pm

  Aniko, I'm really struck by your metaphor of the glass cage. Not only does it aptly describe the conditions of the film's circulation, but it also captures nationalism's core contradiction that you mentioned in response to Mary's comme ...
• In Media Res
  Re: Reading the Transnational in the Local. Or, How the Local Travels: The Case of Survival Guide Untuk Kampung Radioaktif

  Aniko, I too was struck by

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  Fiona Lee CUNY Graduate Center

  Thursday, January 26, 2012 — 2:44 pm

  Aniko, I too was struck by their humor and wondered about their effectiveness when I first viewed these films. To clarify on the "alienated audience" bit, it refers to the Malay   kampung   residents as described in the second paragraph. Based o ...