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  With Friends Like These: Female Intimacies and Animosities in HBO's Girls

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  Katherine J. Lehman Albright College

  January 27, 2016

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  conflicts and prove, at least on Instagram, that their friendship is solid as ever. Her idealized weekend is ... morning the women silently help Marnie clean up from the party. As they wait for their bus, they begin to ...
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  Harmonies of Discord: Pop Oldies and Horror Trailers

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  Leanne Weston University of Warwick

  May 02, 2016

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  (2003), which uses Sonic Youth’s renowned cover of ‘Superstar.’ Its presence marks the beginning of ... a deep sense of unease within the audience, not least because Sonic Youth’s interpretation is so ...
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  "A Dream's End": Temporalities in Abounaddara's Emergency Cinema

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  Zainab Saleh University of Rochester

  February 08, 2016

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  begins with the silhouette of a man in close-up, backlit against a bright window. As with most of the ... videos, this one has little context. It begins, in media res if you will, and we hear the man speak. ... Although the video’s beginning or end might seem arbitrary, the man’s narrative attempts to provide ...
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  Can’t Crossing the Bridge

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  Şebnem Baran University of Southern California

  March 15, 2016

  Siya Siyabend at the beginning of Fatih Akin’s film Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul (2005). ... where Europe begins. In the film, Fatih Akin explores the eclectic mix of music in Istanbul by following ... Alexander Hacke. This clip begins with Hacke joining Baba Zula, a psychedelic underground band, on a boat ...
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  “Noble Maiden Fair (A Mhaighdean Bhan Uasal)” Soundscape

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  Nicole Motahari Georgia State University

  March 31, 2016

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  Princesses Brave Curator's Note The harp begins with a chillingly elegant melody and the violin joins ... begins with Queen Elinor alone, but a younger, sweeter Merida joins in towards the end of the piece. ... aptly fitted for the situation. The song begins with the Noble Maiden as a young child and calls for the ...
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  Stranger Things: Channeling Nostalgia/Challenging Nostalgia

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  Virginia Bonner Clayton State University

  September 14, 2016

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  a little empty." Certainly, much of the spectatorial joy, for the GenX set at least, comes from ...
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  Suspending Suspense

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  Caetlin Benson-Allott Georgetown University

  February 23, 2016

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  begins the inexorable process of lifting it. Spotting a window, Sarah hatches a (doomed) escape plan, ...
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  Free Time for the Limited Subject

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  Richard Jermain University of Tampa

  December 08, 2016

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  immaterial labor Limited Series Phillip K. Dick The Wire Curator's Note Charlie Brooker begins his  ...
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  Austerity Lustre: The Fight in Creed

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  Sean Redmond Deakin University

  April 22, 2016

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  industrial cities where they live. Whose fault is this? At the beginning of the film, when Donnie gives up ...
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  Flashback Against AIDS: Retro-Activism in HBO's The Normal Heart

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  R. Gabriel Dor Northwestern University

  March 10, 2016

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  recounted by Felix and forgotten by Ned. What begins as a pastiche of the historical ad for Man’s Country ...

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