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  From Representation to Simulation: A Videogame Translation of the Bechdel Test

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  Robin Haislett Texas Tech University

  March 15, 2013

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  From Representation to Simulation: A Videogame Translation of the Bechdel Test The Bechdel Test media representation Gender Simulation gender and gaming feminism Curator's Note By Robin Haislett (Texas Tech University) and Robert Moses Peaslee (Texas ...
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  Gender Ambiguity in Games and Improved Portrayal of Women

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  Agnes Trzak Anglia Ruskin University Cambridge

  Saturday, March 16, 2013 — 1:47 pm

  whether it is possible to make a demand for 'improving' the portrayal of women. What we ...
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  Fantasizing our End through Film

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  Sheila Kunkle Metropolitan State University

  March 25, 2013

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  scientific discoveries from the rapidity of global warming, to the possibility of an asteroid striking earth, ...
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  Re: Fantasizing our End through Film

  Thanks for the questions and further thoughts

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  Sheila Kunkle Metropolitan State University

  Tuesday, March 26, 2013 — 1:30 pm

  say that I’m talking specifically about how the apocalyptic film (and any disaster film) ends. The ... is dead (and there’s no hope of our survival, our planet, our universe), then nothing is possible. It ...
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  Melodramatic Subjectivities in Minnelli’s The Cobweb (1955)

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  Agustin Zarzosa SUNY Purchase

  March 27, 2013

  unrealized possibilities in the actual world; their virtuality lies elsewhere, namely, in the work of ...
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  Is first person point-of-view today’s virtual subject?: Cronenberg’s Bodily Intervention

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  Hilary Neroni University of Vermont

  March 28, 2013

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  Is first person point-of-view today’s virtual subject?: Cronenberg’s Bodily Intervention virtual subjects video games Cronenberg’s eXistenZ Curator's Note One of my favorite films about video games is Cronenberg’s eXistenZ (1999). I know it’s already ...
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  Cinema On the Run

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  Adam Cottrel Georgia State University

  March 28, 2013

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  pursuit, in The Coming Community, where "the being proper to humankind is being one’s own possibility ...
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  Re: Is first person point-of-view today’s virtual subject?: Cronenberg’s Bodily Intervention

  Hilary, thank you for your

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  Adam Cottrel Georgia State University

  Friday, March 29, 2013 — 12:25 am

  of life that is made possible by the “unpredictable expansions and limitations of the body” you ...
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  Re: Cinema On the Run

  Very Interesting post Adam

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  Sheila Kunkle Metropolitan State University

  Friday, March 29, 2013 — 5:35 pm

  fascinating to me. But since I’m not a runner, I don’t have the same orientation to the high of this activity. ...
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  Scandalous Conspiracies: Making Sense of Popular Scandal Through Conspiracy

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  Jason Derby Georgia State University

  April 08, 2013

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  Scandalous Conspiracies: Making Sense of Popular Scandal Through Conspiracy scandal music Conspiracy Theories conspiracy Curator's Note After a night of drinking and drug use intermixed with the music of heavy metal band Judas Priest, James Vance and ...

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