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  Adapting Trauma from Novel to Screen

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  Anna Froula East Carolina University

  March 27, 2012

  14 comments

  Adapting Trauma from Novel to Screen trauma The Hunger Games PTSD combat adaptation Curator's Note Editor's note: Froula describes her reactions to the film, including references to departures from the book, and assumes knowledge of the first bo ...
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  Haymitch and the irredeemable character

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  Karen Petruska University of California, Santa Barbara

  Tuesday, March 27, 2012 — 4:31 pm

  of Haymitch.  He is the character that foreshadows Katniss' possible future--he continues to ... bleak is this portrayal when you consider the possible metaphor for our returning soldiers?   Many ...
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  physical trauma and Haymitch's casting

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  Charlotte Howell University of Texas at Austin

  Tuesday, March 27, 2012 — 6:15 pm

  Katniss' ghost of a possible future, and a terrifying one at that. ...
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  The Hunger Games, Battle Royale, and Transmedia Fan Regulation

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  Al Harahap University of Arizona

  March 29, 2012

  6 comments

  The Hunger Games, Battle Royale, and Transmedia Fan Regulation Battle Royale fan regulation intellectual property Marxist recuperation media regulation plagiarism The Hunger Games transmedia Curator's Note A blogger identifies striking similarities b ...
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  what are the stakes?

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  Karen Petruska University of California, Santa Barbara

  Friday, March 30, 2012 — 1:44 pm

  director's cut of Blade Runner, where the fans were outraged by a closing off of possible interpretations for ...
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  On the Surprise of the Game

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  Paul Eisenstein Otterbein University

  April 02, 2012

  6 comments

  possibility of surprise. A game is never so anxiously enjoyable as when, but for this or that instance of ... possible in the opening of the game works in the favor of my team or in the other, this is why I watch.   ...
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  Faking it

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  Robert Cavanagh Northwestern University/New York Film Academy

  Monday, April 2, 2012 — 10:12 pm

  It was a possibility already inscribed in the game, although certainly not  pre-determined. Clearly, ...
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  College Football by the Numbers

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  Scott Krzych Colorado College

  April 03, 2012

  2 comments

  football program. Every possible detail—uniform colors, stadium layout, fight song, mascot, even marching ...
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  Fakes and Contingency

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  Brian Price University of Toronto

  Tuesday, April 3, 2012 — 2:43 pm

  possibilities that emerge in time and in so doing come to define the limits of this particular institution, just ...
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  That’s easy. Buffalo Bill

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  Robert Cavanagh Northwestern University/New York Film Academy

  Tuesday, April 3, 2012 — 5:28 pm

  possibility of allegory that Brian's describing, or that you're pointing to in your final paragraph, ... allegorithim also seems to be in place: fantasy college sports. In that case, the name makes possible the ...

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