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Re: “‘Save Me Captain Stubing! Skeletor and The Lone Ranger have joined forces and are attacking the General Lee’: The place of play

That is a great point, Will.

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Avi Santo Old Dominion University

Friday, May 9, 2008 — 2:16 pm

alternate universe, whereas these commercials make no such distinction (other than possibly children's ...

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Re: “The Legend of G.I. Joe…New from Marvel Comics!”: The Toy as Comic Book on Television

Thanks for the great

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Derek Johnson University of Wisconsin, Madison

Sunday, May 11, 2008 — 2:10 am

I’m confident you’ve taken steps to keep that well preserved. What I find fascinating about things ... relationship of GI Joe to its social and political context. And while I’m not sure I’d characterize it as ...

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Re: “Sometimes My Kids Seem Like a Bunch of Kangaroos!”

Henry, I'm really taken by

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Derek Johnson University of Wisconsin, Madison

Sunday, May 11, 2008 — 2:35 am

Henry, I'm really taken by the way you emphasize the space of play in this piece, where these ads construct play space as one that encompasses the kitchen, the living room, and the back yard. today, I'd imagine that the internet and virtual spac ...

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Re: “‘Save Me Captain Stubing! Skeletor and The Lone Ranger have joined forces and are attacking the General Lee’: The place of play

Don't forget the 1996

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Derek Johnson University of Wisconsin, Madison

Sunday, May 11, 2008 — 2:56 am

unified, but to me it suggests the possibility that these toy companies perceived licenses across media ...

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Re: “The Legend of G.I. Joe…New from Marvel Comics!”: The Toy as Comic Book on Television

I'm not sure I have much to

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Henry Jenkins Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism, University of Southern California

Sunday, May 11, 2008 — 5:42 pm

I'm not sure I have much to say in response to Will's question about America's Army, though it's an interesting one. Nothing I've read about America's Army makes any direct links back to G.I. Joe but it could not have been fa ...

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Re: “‘Save Me Captain Stubing! Skeletor and The Lone Ranger have joined forces and are attacking the General Lee’: The place of play

I'm trying to remember the

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Tuesday, May 27, 2008 — 10:34 pm

I'm trying to remember the details, but either Wizard or Toyfare magazine started running a genuinely hilarious series of photo-comics in the 1990s, combining characters from different comics and toy worlds, all represented by their respective figure ...

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Re: The Aesthetic of Disaster: Live, Broken, and Pretty

I just wanted to inform

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Michele White Tulane University

Thursday, August 14, 2008 — 7:39 pm

to our possible futures and try to fix things. Something has changed from that moment when Spencer ...

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Rapping Up The Wire and the Limits of Plot Summary

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Jason Mittell Middlebury College

January 28, 2009

expression that speak to both the constraints and possibilities of life in Baltimore. Sure, we care about how ...

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‘I’m Not a Homophobe, It’s Just Not Central to the Plot’: Colonizing Queer Spaces on Battlestar Galactica

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Avi Santo Old Dominion University

January 30, 2009

‘I’m Not a Homophobe, It’s Just Not Central to the Plot’: Colonizing Queer Spaces on Battlestar ... (and possibly in masking their homophobia). Where some producers in the 1970s sought to make TV ... a slippery means of transforming possible bigotries into matters of personal preference – for the plot ...

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