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  The Blood is the Life/Death: Queer Contagion and Viral Vampirism in the Age of HIV/AIDS

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  Andrew Owens DePaul University

  August 05, 2014

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  horror HIV/AIDS and Television Curator's Note Beginning in the summer of 1981, a smattering of ... by beginning a headlining story stating unequivocally that the “lifestyle of some male homosexuals ... cancer,” at least until the HIV virus was was officially named as such in May 1986. ...
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  Cinematic Dialectics de bonne heure

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  Louis-Georges Schwartz Ohio University

  September 16, 2014

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  compulsively restaged primal scene brings an aesthetic promise of happiness, or at least respite, in the same ... could stop abjecting racialized surplus populations. Cinema begins with this film that inscribes the ...
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  WALL-E and Utopia

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  Gerry Canavan Marquette University

  April 24, 2014

  3 comments

  future back to the Earth they once ruined, and robot and human together begin the difficult process of ... a few scant minutes at least, becomes unfixed; the curse is lifted; another, better world is possible. ...
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  Living Footnotes: Paratexts Without a Text?

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  Ellen McCracken University of California, Santa Barbara

  March 21, 2014

  1 comment

  outside the novel. In these autographic paratexts or second-degree footnotes, Díaz begins an enhanced ... “living” extensions are effectively paratexts without a text, or at least a largely eclipsed text. Cabrera, ...
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  Extreme Homecomings

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  Hattie Daily Veteran

  January 13, 2014

  5 comments

  football, a perfectly balanced one of each family, and a soldier dad.  At the beginning of the wars in Iraq ...
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  This Actually Needs to Happen: The Daria Movie Trailer

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  Angelina Karpovich Brunel University

  March 20, 2014

  2 comments

  between the end of Generation X and the beginning of Generation Y, were, by a long shot, the oldest people ... beginning to experience genuine nostalgia for the first time in our lives. It is significant that the fake ...
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  The Importance of Being Aspie: Autism-as-Asperger's on TV

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  Nedda Ahmed Georgia State University

  May 15, 2014

  4 comments

  a small extent, forgive or at least overlook TV for presenting only one side of the Autism Spectrum. ... that all autistic individuals have these abilities.) Why do all these characters have to have at least ...
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  Magic to Not Be Who I Am: Grant Morrison, Chaos Magic, and Western Mystery Traditions

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  Christopher Lirette Emory University

  August 13, 2014

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  about. What Morrison wanted, apparently, was to become a superhero. Or at least someone different. And so ... forget who you are, or, at least, to get through the week, to make it work. ...
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  What Would Nancy Do? Jenji Kohan’s Female Anti-Hero

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  Maya Montanez Smukler UCLA & The New School

  March 11, 2014

  3 comments

  toilet, the tampon sandwich), we were slightly annoyed with her to begin with. Piper is more sensitive to ...
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  The Many Texts of Textless Paratexts

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  Johannes Mahlknecht University of Innsbruck, Austria

  March 17, 2014

  5 comments

  many of them are paid "homage" to in the trailer’s producer credit at the beginning. The real ...

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