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  The Clown On Which the Knight Falls

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  Chris Clow Western Washington University, Movies.com

  August 05, 2011

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  Batman Curator's Note I would argue, and would hope you agree, that my selection (begins 1:33) for ... only accentuated with this scene.  While interpretations of these characters go back to at least 1940, ... Nolan also takes from at least one well-known work of writer Grant Morrison’s on the character in ...
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  Portrait of a Posthuman

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  Eva Rorandelli Visual artist

  March 09, 2011

  6 comments

  this question more and more. Or at least I think I do, presuming that I myself am real. Recently I’m ... interested in representing this contemporary reality. Or at least that’s how it seems to me, when attempting ...
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  How 'bout Them Apples? – A 19th Century Object Lesson for 21st Century Technology

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  David J. Gunkel Northern Illinois University

  January 14, 2011

  2 comments

  precisely the issue that confronts us in the face of the technological object at the beginning of the 21 st ...   And these other things are, for better or worse, beginning to show signs of "a life of their ... orientations, we may begin to perceive other possibilities—possibilities that will undoubtedly have fundamental ...
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  "Do Season Finales Even Matter Anymore?" or "Season Finale, Schmeason Finale. I Don’t Even Know When It’s On!"

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  Kelly Kessler DePaul University

  May 16, 2011

  11 comments

  forward to the season finale, but to me, at least, the experience lacks the pop it had in the old ... standard season.   In 2011, I find it difficult to keep track of shows’ beginnings and endings without the ...
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  Diversity of Film Festivals in East Asia: Red Carpets and Parades

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  Dina Iordanova and Ruby Cheung University of St Andrews

  January 24, 2011

  many younger ones have come into being in the 1990s and 2000s; at least four new festivals came into ... intra-Asia transactions that successfully bracket out Hollywood. The West is only just beginning to wake up ...
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  Between The Personal and The Political: The Lawyer, Her Boss and Their Investigator

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  Aviva Dove-Viebahn University of Northern Colorado

  October 12, 2011

  3 comments

  poorly for the firm (this last plot point is just beginning to unfold this season). Suddenly, a show in ... beginning of season three.) From the beginning of the show, Alicia’s role as Peter Florrick’s wife has been ...
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  Bodies in Code, and in the Cultural Imaginary

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  Lauren Klein The Graduate Center and Macaulay Honors College, CUNY

  June 23, 2011

  2 comments

  the center of the screen. As the videos begin to spin in unison, the viewer comes to perceive the ...
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  The Noodle Master

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  Michelle Wildgen Tin House Magazine

  March 01, 2011

  6 comments

  a freshly shucked oyster, a young girl, a gangster, and a bloody lip. But the movie begins with this scene ...
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  A Response

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  Steven Shaviro Wayne State University

  September 02, 2011

  begin. I will try to make a few comments, at least, about each of the four curators' postings in ... object that I hope responds to at least some of the tensions and confusions that we have been discussing ... running in the corner, and a title reading "Take One" appears near the beginning. Against a dark ...
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  From Paternal to Patronizing: The Declining Credibility of Female Contestants

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  Tricia Clasen University of Wisconsin - Rock County

  June 03, 2011

  3 comments

  Idol repeatedly stated that they were looking for an artist. From the beginning, they indicated that ... image would not be the deciding factor; rather, talent would be. However, also from the beginning, they ...

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