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  On Political Satire: ‘Ha-Ha’ Funny or Contemptuously So?

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  Jeffrey P. Jones Old Dominion University

  July 24, 2007

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  On Political Satire: ‘Ha-Ha’ Funny or Contemptuously So? satire George W. Bush politics FOX fandom Comedy Central Gulliver’s Travels Half-Hour News Hour humor Daily Show Lil Bush criticism animation Little Rascals Jon Stewart contempt anti-fandom Rory Bre ...
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  Marketing Mythology on India’s Cartoon Network

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  Barton Scott Montana State University

  April 12, 2010

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  Marketing Mythology on India’s Cartoon Network Hinduism comic books animation Curator's Note At 11am on Sunday, March 28, 2010, Cartoon Network India aired the first episode of its new series, Amar Chitra Katha or “Immortal Picture Stories” (hencefor ...
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  Artful Mockers: Brand Parodies Amplified Through Animation

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  Gladys Santiago New York University

  March 15, 2011

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  Artful Mockers: Brand Parodies Amplified Through Animation The Simpsons product displacement primetime animation animation Curator's Note I’ve been tracking examples of  product displacement--instances in which brand names and logos are greeked or mo ...
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  "All Your Subversion Are Belong to Culture Industry" (That Means You Too, Banksy!)

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  Benjamin Thevenin Brigham Young University

  March 16, 2011

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  Park’s anarchic wit is evidence of the scholarly cache of such animated cultural critiques. (I’m ...
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  Pixar's RenderMan and Proprietary Technology in CGI Animation

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  Alla Gadassik Emily Carr University of Art + Design

  April 22, 2014

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  has not only made Pixar’s animated films technically possible, it also, in part, defined the company’s ...
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  Mite Club: Metatextuality, Fandom, and Media Industry Responses in Batman: The Brave and the Bold

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  Christopher M. Cox Georgia State University

  February 03, 2015

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  Mite Club: Metatextuality, Fandom, and Media Industry Responses in Batman: The Brave and the Bold superheroes metafiction media industries fandom Batman on TV Batman animation American Serial Television Curator's Note Bat-Mite, self-described as Batm ...
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  “It’s in my code!”: Glitch as Gendered Ontology

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  Juan Llamas-Rodriguez University of Pennsylvania, Annenberg School for Communication

  March 29, 2016

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  reappropriating the (discursive and material) markings of the sexed body enacts possibilities for more resilient, ... malfunctioning into possibilities for new forms of gameplay (including a glitch power on Disney Infinity). Not ...
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  Cruella de Vil: Technology, “Nature”, and the Femme(inist) Fatale

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  Carolyn Elerding

  December 04, 2019

  1961 animated feature displays the possibilities of animation xerography, and the 1996 “live-action” ...
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  Two Conceptions of Memory in Only Yesterday

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  George Crosthwait Japanese Avant-garde and Experimental Film Festival

  October 05, 2020

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  the operation of memory. My intention with this post is to offer two possible pathways for ...
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  Perceptions of Barbie in Popular Culture

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  Jennifer L. Pena University of Miami

  January 29, 2024

  meaning; she symbolizes possibility and impossibility alike. ...