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  What Bad Does

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  James Daniel Elam Northwestern University

  March 20, 2009

  3 comments

  Darkness/A Time of Light/The Crusade Begins” to the closing “Love Has Enemies,” it is hard to turn away from ... of bad films. In so doing, he has launched at least fifteen minutes of consumerist fame. What was ...
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  Behind the Laughter Curtain: Image(in)ing Later Life Marriage through Comedy

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  Melissa Aleman James Madison University, School of Communication Studies

  March 25, 2009

  4 comments

  Marie will not “let” Frank talk, Frank begins singing “I’m not listening anymore do-da, do-da.” Shortly ... thereafter Marie covers her ears, faces Frank, and begins singing “Frank Marone shut up...”, creating ...
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  Nights @ Indian Call Centers

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  James Daniel Elam Northwestern University

  October 26, 2009

  1 comment

  realizes he is sitting across from a mysterious, beautiful woman. Interested, he begins a conversation; she ... comes with a condition: if she tells him the story, he must write it. They agree, and the story begins ...
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  Genre Matters

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  andreas thatcher NONE

  October 15, 2009

  5 comments

  the message into more popular genres at least provides the potential both to harness established ...
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  Racism, Postcolonialism, and Neocolonial Zombies: Resident Evil 5

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  Cathy Schlund-Vials University of Connecticut

  September 30, 2009

  2 comments

  provides a provocative answer at the beginning of Resident Evil 5 ’s narrative: “capitalism.”               ...
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  Our Little Mosque

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  Michele Byers. Saint Mary's University

  April 06, 2009

  3 comments

  rural Canada, it’s a traditional Canadian sitcom. The clip I chose, from the very beginning of season ...
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  Ernie and Bert: Just Good Friends?

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  Heather Hendershot City University of New York, Queens College

  October 19, 2009

  7 comments

  comes from mainstream TV, not resourceful fans—but at least it is dirty without being mean spirited. ...
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  Fragments of Dexter: The Credit Sequence as Character Study

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  Angelina Karpovich Brunel University

  November 02, 2009

  8 comments

  identification begins in opening frames of the credit sequence.     ...
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  Citizenship in Flames

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  Dana Luciano Georgetown University

  March 13, 2009

  4 comments

  rather, politics is itself the romance of the film.  The clip begins as the Women’s Army’s founder, ... movements themselves. This dual capacity might, I think, be one good place to begin tracking where and how ...
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  Brought to You With Limited Commercial Interruption: The temporalities of online TV

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  JP Kelly Royal Holloway, University of London

  February 18, 2009

  5 comments

  a standard broadcast albeit with shorter intermissions) or they could chose to begin with a two-minute ...

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