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  The Yellow Peril rises from the grave... to get your White women! Orientalist themes in zombie stories

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  Eric Hamako Shoreline Community College

  September 28, 2009

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  The Yellow Peril rises from the grave... to get your White women! Orientalist themes in zombie stories race rape Orientalism Asian racism violence zombie horde Taken Resident Evil, Yellow Peril Arab Muslim sexual assault gang rape Curator's Note   In ...
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  Metamorphoses of the sexualized zombie

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  Ernesto Ignacio de Carvalho New York University

  Tuesday, September 29, 2009 — 7:45 am

  that it is possible that the typical zombie issues may have migrated to other genres- science fiction, ...
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  Obama, Zombies, and Black Male Messiahs

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  Elizabeth McAlister Wesleyan University

  October 01, 2009

  1 comment

  a black man, and not just because this makes him ‘different,’ but because it makes it possible to see that ...
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  “Is This My New TV?”: Divides in the Digital Transition

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  Caryn Murphy University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh

  October 05, 2009

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  “Is This My New TV?”: Divides in the Digital Transition digital transition digital divide broadcasting Curator's Note      This past spring I led a senior seminar examining changes in the television industry from the late 1980s to the digital transit ...
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  Another side to the "digital television divide"

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  Max Dawson Northwestern University

  Tuesday, October 6, 2009 — 3:11 am

  possibilities of digital broadcasting. When we consider the hardships that DTV is causing for stations in areas ...
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  Convert Now! Crowdsourcing DTV Outreach

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  Max Dawson Northwestern University

  October 07, 2009

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  many aspects of the implementation of DTV as possible to private-sphere partners ranging from ...
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  Wild Thing: HDTV and the Demasculinized Male Viewer

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  Marusya Bociurkiw Ryerson University, Toronto

  October 09, 2009

  1 comment

  demasculinization I’m noticing in HDTV ads? Many of the ads I’ve been looking at seem to crystallize what Jeanne ...
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  Max, I'm glad to see some

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  Marusya Bociurkiw Ryerson University, Toronto

  Monday, October 12, 2009 — 11:24 pm

  Max, I'm glad to see some ideological critique of HD conversion. As far back as the early 80's, some pundits suggested that HDTV would provide television audiences with such intense viewing experiences that audience members will want to continue ...
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  Disjuncture and Difference in The Amazing Race

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  Robert Moses Peaslee Texas Tech University

  October 13, 2009

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  understanding of the shifting “scapes” made possible in international media environments. It is an eloquent ...
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  "Would you like a treatment?": Dollhouse, pain, and memory

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  Erika Johnson-Lewis St. Petersburg College

  October 14, 2009

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  "Would you like a treatment?": Dollhouse, pain, and memory mediation Dollhouse pain programming blank slates Curator's Note The central premise of Dollhouse is that the human brain can be “wiped” of its original consciousness and a new cons ...

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