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  Not Just a Sports Film: Spike Lee‘s Layered Contexts and Implications in He Got Game

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  Dafna Kaufman The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  November 26, 2017

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  Not Just a Sports Film: Spike Lee‘s Layered Contexts and Implications in He Got Game Sports Film Spike Lee race capitalism Curator's Note    Since the mid-1980s, Spike Lee has become one of the most discussed African-American film directors. Lee' ...
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  Arthur Knight The College of William & Mary

  Tuesday, December 12, 2017 — 7:04 pm

  men (where it ends). Both groups are racially mixed, sort of cementing the utopian possibilities of ...
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  Mapping Kanto Region Over a Town Near You: Pokémon Go and Fantasy in the Everyday

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  Jamie Henthorn Catawba College

  December 15, 2017

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  major prize for catching 3 billion pokémon was to have Farfetch’d, typically contained to East Asia ... players lacking the means or availability to travel to East Asia. Ultimately, the mapping of nostalgia ...
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  Sustained Viewership: (Re)Playability of Video Games

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  Ashley Jones Georgia Southwestern State University

  January 04, 2018

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  (2008) calls the “possibility space” (p. 121), of a game. This space is where “the myriad configurations ...
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  Re: “Feminism is for everybody”: Atwood and Moss on The Handmaid’s Tale

  Celebrity feminism

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  Spring Duvall Salem College

  Thursday, January 25, 2018 — 7:09 pm

  media pressures can possibly contribute to educating and swaying celebrities towards solidarity with ...
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  This Land is Drone Land

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  Justin aDams Burton Rider University

  January 28, 2018

  dazzling drone choreography, MQ-9s deliver missiles to Asia and the Middle East, lighting the sky with ...
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  Underwater Ears: The Liquidity of Transduction

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  Lisa Han University of California, Santa Barbara

  February 13, 2018

  pre-acoustic, audible, and post-acoustic contexts. Focusing on the saturation that conditions the possibility ...
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  Re: My Two (and Three) Dads: Full House, Fuller House, and 1980s Sitcom Families

  Hi Zach, I’m sorry I didn’t

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  Bridget Kies University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

  Thursday, February 15, 2018 — 6:22 pm

  Hi Zach, I'm sorry I didn't see your comment TWO YEARS AGO! Thanks for giving me some different ways to think about the relationship between television and society. Since I've posted this piece, I've expanded my study to consider how t ...
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  Five Years of Cinema Journal In Focus at In Media Res

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  Christine Becker University of Notre Dame

  February 24, 2018

  conversation that isn’t possible in print form. Admittedly, the comments sections of In Focus posts on IMR ... mind, I’m excited to deliver to In Media Res readers this week a handful of previous posts that I think ...
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  Really, Queen?: Parsing Life Post-Drag Race

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  Andrew Owens DePaul University

  March 02, 2018

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  Really, Queen?: Parsing Life Post-Drag Race Drag celebrity Bianca del Rio Curator's Note Two weeks ago, I had the good fortune of traveling to Milwaukee with friends to attend a performance by one of my favorite stand-up comics. Roy Haylock, better k ...

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