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  “Not Only Human”- an X-Files vid by Killa and Laura Shapiro

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  Tisha Turk Grinnell College

  January 29, 2008

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  “Not Only Human”- an X-Files vid by Killa and Laura Shapiro X-Files fandom fan vids editing affect aesthetics Curator's Note One of the most common subgenres of vid is the character study, in which vidders illuminate characters’ emotions or motivatio ...
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  “Us”- a multivid by Lim

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  Kristina Busse Independent Scholar

  February 01, 2008

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  “Us”- a multivid by Lim V for Vendetta Star Trek Lim fannish engagement fandom fan vids editing affect Curator's Note /we’re living in a den of thieves Lim’s vid thematizes and illustrates how media fans engage with texts—not only the intense love fa ...
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  Transgression, Confession, and Ying Yang Twins’s “Wait (The Whisper Song)”

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  Michael Z. Newman University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee

  February 20, 2008

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  cultural values and norms. I think this last benefit in particular is what I’m getting from telling you how ...
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  Once More, With Feeling: GLEE “Imagines” a Karaoke Future

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  Christine B Balance Asian American Studies, UC Irvine

  April 07, 2010

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  Once More, With Feeling: GLEE “Imagines” a Karaoke Future Karaoke Revolution covers belonging affect Curator's Note Q: Where does a high school theatre nerd unleash her inner Lea Salonga after she’s reached the drinking age? A: A karaoke bar. In the ...
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  Queer Vibrations

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  Mel Y. Chen UC Berkeley

  May 06, 2010

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  conflicted about this video’s appearance here for two reasons, one being the possibility of racist collusion ... a gleeful adoration, a mirth that celebrates the possibility of her impossible transgressions. It might seem ... sometimes shallowly squandered) in thinking deeply about the possibilities of “gay shame.” Can this ...
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  Cinema's Exhaustion and the Vitality of Affect

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  Elena del Rio University of Alberta

  August 29, 2011

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  possibility? Exhaustion without vitality is the zero degree of the body without organs, the emptied out body ... crassly commercial and the creative that he affirmed still possible or necessary, and does this ...
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  Post-Cinematic Effects

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  Paul Bowman Cardiff University

  August 30, 2011

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  Post-cinematic effects, yes; Shaviro makes an important observation. But affects? I’m not so sure why or how they ...
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  Fragments of unconscious machines

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  Patricia MacCormack Anglia Ruskin University

  September 01, 2011

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  possible unconscious machines, potentially affected ecstasy, libidinal confusion or boredom or… This clip ...
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  Dreams of Being/Killing Lara Croft: Exploring Agency and Gender in Tomb Raider

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  Agnes Trzak and Alex Annetts Anglia Ruskin University Cambridge

  March 11, 2013

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  Dreams of Being/Killing Lara Croft: Exploring Agency and Gender in Tomb Raider Women's Bodies video games Tomb Raider and Gender in Games Lara Croft feminism agency affect Curator's Note While designing the character of Lara Croft, Toby Gard env ...
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  Idiot Media: The Culture of NekNomination Videos

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  Tanya Horeck & Tina Kendall Anglia Ruskin University

  April 02, 2014

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  Idiot Media: The Culture of NekNomination Videos social media Circulating pain affect Curator's Note NekNomination videos – a social media drinking game which involves (mainly) young men drinking potentially lethal combinations of alcohol and then is ...

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