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Biopic

Theme week organized by
Dafna KaufmanThe University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Biopics and Oscar-winning Lead Performances, 2000-2019

By Ryan Pumroy

Cinematic Biopics: Does Historical Accuracy Truly Matter?

By Kevin Stoll

Fosse/Verdon: The Diva and the Trouper in the Era of #Me Too

By Dennis Bingham

I, Tanya: Experimental Biopic or Careless Contradiction

By Dafna Kaufman

DVDs Like LPs: The Musical Biopic Website and the Contemporary Film Collector

By Jesse Schlotterbeck
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Tabletop Gaming

Theme week organized by
Ashley JonesGeorgia Southwestern State University

The New Nostalgic Impulse of Dungeons & Dragons and Tabletop Gaming

By Christina Knopf
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Playing with the Television: VCR Games

By Jeremy Moore
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Getting Interpersonal in the Dungeon

By Ian Borton

Expanding the Definition of "Audience" in Tabletop Roleplaying

By Max Dickeson
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"The Bitch Rule" and Monsterhearts: Modern Queering of Tabletop Games

By Randall Hammond
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Disability Media

Theme week organized by
Lyndsey SheltonGeorgia State University

Just find a way around it

By Laura Purcell
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TBI Awareness Memes: Hyper-individualism, overcoming adversity, and the neoliberal capitalist project

By Cheryl Green
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Just another celebrity confessional? famous faces, recognisable voices and mental health in the media

By Rebecca Feasey
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“I Do Things That People with Hands Can’t Even Do”: Streaming Disability and Video Games

Fetishizing Cognitive Difference in The Big Bang Theory and Atypical

By Ted Gournelos
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Live Event Programming

Theme week organized by
Dafna KaufmanThe University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Live! from Wyoming: National Geographic's 'Yellowstone Live' and the Legacy of the Park as Performance

By Phillip D Duncan

The Wiziwig World Cup: P2P catches up with live sports

By Thomas F. Corrigan
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Sports Networks, Pro Wrestling, and the Live Programming Bubble

By Cory Barker

Marvel Universe Live, the Lectro-Link, and the Live-Action Entertainment Experience

By Kimberly Owczarski
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Shondaland's #TGIT: Promoting Live-Viewing & Flow Through Block Programming

By Maggie Steinhauer
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Agatha Christie

Theme week organized by
Geoffrey HenryGeorgia State University

Murder, She Wrote and The Mysteries of Laura: Agatha Christie’s Influence on U.S. TV Crime Dramas

By Geoffrey Henry
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'Murder and Mirth' - Margaret Rutherford as Agatha Christie's Miss Marple

By Mark Aldridge
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Crooked White House

By Scott Daniel Boras
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The Usual Suspects: Agatha Christie’s Detective Hercule Poirot as Refugee and Icon of the “Other” in The ABC Murders

By Dr. Robert Westerfelhaus Celeste Lacroix
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“The Wife of Kenite”: Does a Recently Published Story Follow the Classic Christie Plot?

By Ellen Hay
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Revisiting Media Representations of Motherhood

Theme week organized by
Rebecca FeaseyBath Spa University
Ashley JonesGeorgia Southwestern State University

Reassurance, fearmongering or cautionary tales: what television teaches young women about motherhood

By Rebecca Feasey
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Motherhood in Pieces

By Annelie Bränström Öhman
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Guilty mothers and innocent children

By Filipa Antunes
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From Understanding Mother to Hero Father: the Story of Ferdinand the Bull

By Berit Åström
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Parenting IRL

By Lisa Ellen Silvestri
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A Generation Since 9/11

Theme week organized by
Daniel Van JelgerhuisGeorgia State University

Helping Undergraduate Students Grasp the Power of September 11th

By Andrea M Quenette
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Placing 9/11 in its Historical Context a Generation Later

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9/11 - Information Poor in the Digital Age

By James Machado
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9/11 Newspaper coverage

By Monika Raesch
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A Picture of Freedom?

By Rebecca Adelman
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Infertility in Media

Theme week organized by
Ashley JonesGeorgia Southwestern State University

The Inevitability of Optimism

By Dee Harvey
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Infertility as failure: Egg freezing advertisements and the myth of 'having it all'

By Rachel Williamson
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Double or Nothing: Infertility in Jane the Virgin

By Stefanie Davis Kempton
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Real In/fertility

By Rachel Silverman
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Graphic Infertility: Representations of Infertility in Comics and Graphic Novels

By Alexandra Alberda Katy Lindemann Anna Feigenbaum
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Courtroom Dramas

Theme week organized by
Geoffrey HenryGeorgia State University

Perry Mason, Matlock, and McBride: Television Courtroom Dramas as Classical Mysteries

By Geoffrey Henry
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An Atticus for Our Time: To Kill a Mockingbird on Broadway

By Hayley Hoffman
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Dun Dun!: That "Law and Order" sound

By David Staton
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Sight and Sound as Compromised Witness

By Colleen Laird
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Best Interests and Bad Decisions: The Hollywoodization of Custody Battles

By Katie Barnett
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Modern Telethon

Theme week organized by
Lyndsey SheltonGeorgia State University

Fandom Good Works

By Tanya D. Zuk, Ph.D.

Kickstarting the Olympics

By Evelyn Bottando
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Acceptable Paternalism in the Muscular Dystrophy Association’s Show of Strength

By Emily Stones

That Thing on Facebook

By Gail McFarland

Gamers in Action: Charity Gaming

By Lyndsey Shelton

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