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  The Interactive Audience

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  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard Dominican University

  October 18, 2011

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  a siren song of possibility: the emerging provides a chaotic yet fertile space within which to innovate on ...
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  Melting Pot or Multiculturalism? Mediating Ethnicity in Baseball

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  Elizabeth Rawitsch University of East Anglia

  October 24, 2011

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  Melting Pot or Multiculturalism? Mediating Ethnicity in Baseball Take Me Out to the Ball Game Race/Ethnicity Nationality Mediating Baseball Baseball A League of Their Own Curator's Note Baseball has been considered America’s national pastime since th ...
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  “I is Unruffable”: Rereading African American Sports Performances as Unique Expressions of Dissent

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  Pellom McDaniels III Emory University

  October 25, 2011

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  the possibilities of a world unhinged from tradition. Indeed, this was a world where the rewards ...
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  Diversity in Baseball

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  Annie Dell'Aria The Graduate Center, CUNY

  Tuesday, October 25, 2011 — 3:23 pm

  and Asia.  When players like Chien-Ming Wang (Taiwan) or Ichiro Suzuko (Japan) play, their national ...
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  Ethnicity/Race/Nationality

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  Elizabeth Rawitsch University of East Anglia

  Tuesday, October 25, 2011 — 5:29 pm

  step. I’m curious to see how this discussion of race/ethinicity/nationality develops over the coming ...
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  Sunday driver: What does AMC's scheduling say about its branding?

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  Andrew Daglas ChicagoNow.com

  November 03, 2011

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  Sunday driver: What does AMC's scheduling say about its branding? The Sopranos Sunday TV Mad Men HBO AMC Curator's Note In an era often heralded as a golden age of television, few networks have made the notion of “quality TV” as central to its b ...
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  "What You Mean We?": Video-Cloning Laurie Anderson

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  Kimberly Ramirez LaGuardia Community College of the City University of New York

  November 08, 2011

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  "What You Mean We?": Video-Cloning Laurie Anderson special effects performance art Laurie Anderson Curator's Note For four decades, Laurie Anderson's  multimedia performances have utilized special effects to dissolve boundaries between ...
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  Digital Materialism: "300" Bodies in Virtual Space

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  Drew Ayers Eastern Washington University

  November 09, 2011

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  Digital Materialism: "300" Bodies in Virtual Space special effects materialism digital aesthetics Curator's Note Two parallel discourses emerged in the popular press coverage of Zach Snyder’s 2006 film adaptation of Frank Miller and Lynn Va ...
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  Bodies Drawn, Filmed, Painted, Rendered

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  Bob Rehak Swarthmore College

  Wednesday, November 9, 2011 — 5:43 pm

  books to cinematic life with as much fidelity to their source material as possible. Some, like The Polar ...
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  Avatar Comes Home: 3D and the Death of DVD

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  Chuck Tryon Fayetteville State University

  November 10, 2011

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  Avatar Comes Home: 3D and the Death of DVD television special effects panasonic james cameron avatar 3D Curator's Note  When James Cameron's 3D space epic, Avatar, was first being promoted, the movie was promoted as something that audiences had ...

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