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  Re: The girls have caught up to the boys

  What a find, Robert! Not only

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  Kaelin B.C. Alexander Cornell University

  Thursday, March 4, 2010 — 1:26 am

  "advancement" possible, it also regurgitates, almost flawlessly, the predictable rhetoric of moral panic ... platter—albeit with the requisite, tasteful facial blurring, of course. Fortuitously, I’m finishing up a unit on ...
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  The Link Prank: A Legacy of the Internet Cowboy

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  Ethan Tussey Georgia State University

  March 04, 2010

  4 comments

  Wild West feature rough and tumble men exploring the possibilities of the new frontier, stories of the ... allure of the website is the possibility of finding something shocking.   Anderson asserts in the piece ...
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  "There are eight million stories in the naked city; this has been one of them": Procedurality and The Naked City

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  gwijthoff

  March 11, 2010

  2 comments

  "There are eight million stories in the naked city; this has been one of them": Procedurality and The Naked City 1940s adaptation cinema dassin Film Noir media theory procedurality procedure seriality serials telegraph telephone Curator's N ...
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  Professional Lives

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  Derek Kompare Southern Methodist University

  March 12, 2010

  3 comments

  Professional Lives procedural drama police labor ideology feminism CSI crime Curator's Note   Middle-class adulthood is the central procedure represented in procedural drama. TV cops, lawyers, and doctors aren't only shown doing their jobs; they ...
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  Re: Professional Lives

  the Catch-22 of "the personal"

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  Jules Odendahl-James Duke University

  Friday, March 12, 2010 — 2:38 pm

  leap to mind)-- certainly capitalize upon the comedic possibilities of a personal life that animates ...
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  Re: "There are eight million stories in the naked city; this has been one of them": Procedurality and The Naked City

  I’m also glad to be reminded

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  Steven Cohan Syracuse University

  Saturday, March 13, 2010 — 2:20 am

  I'm also glad to be reminded of what Naked City does with technology, and as Jules notes, there is often an echo of the film's opening in TV procedurals: not only in the multiple storylines of "4x4" or "Viva Las Vegas" episod ...
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  Selling Domesticity Online

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  Jennifer Wofford Cornell University

  March 22, 2010

  9 comments

  provided for by the male public-figure, the narratives today hold up the possibility that, in fact, women ... online craft community: specifically, that it is possible to “quit your day job,” and for some, to be ...
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  Re: Selling Domesticity Online

  Crafty

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  Brad Prager University of Missouri

  Monday, March 22, 2010 — 8:56 pm

  micronarratives of independent living become part of the marketing system is intriguing.  I have to admit that I’m ... bed. But that may be further evidence that I’m not part of the targeted demographic (as pointed out ...
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  Re: Selling Domesticity Online

  The Etsy Man

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  Lisa Patti Hobart and William Smith Colleges

  Monday, March 22, 2010 — 10:19 pm

  significant ways?   Thank you for introducing me to these blogs.   I’m looking forward to watching more.     ...
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  Defictionalization

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  Lisa Patti Hobart and William Smith Colleges

  March 23, 2010

  7 comments

  consumer, and two of them directly recreate the mise-en-scène of the beer commercial.   I’m interested in ...

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