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  “Darkness Falls Across the Land”: Pre-Existing Music and Strange Associations

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  Elizabeth Rosemary Hunt University of Liverpool

  October 28, 2017

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  until 0:50, yet this remains ambiguous until 1:20 when the spoken word opening to ‘Thriller’ begins ... the series (as it can only be viewed through their service), or at least  have enticed current ...
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  “I wanna do a lot of things that don’t make sense”: Intimate Knowledge and Erotic Power

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  Anna Lee Swan University of Washington

  March 24, 2017

  us “to be responsible to ourselves in the deepest sense. For as we begin to recognize our deepest ... feelings, we begin to give up, of necessity, being satisfied with suffering and self-negation” (58). In this ...
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  "Throw Yourself Into the Barbs": Morality, Pixelation and Spatial Legibility in Alexander Ocias's Loved

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  Whitney Pow Northwestern University

  May 12, 2017

  digital aesthetics Curator's Note The video game Loved by Alexander Ocias begins with white text on ... begins to question the text as it asks more and more of her: “Throw yourself into the barbs,” it orders, ...
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  People and Places Beyond Reach: Invisible Stories as Immersive Devices in Contemporary Video Games

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  Pawel Frelik Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland

  September 15, 2017

  into full visibility. There is also at least one instance of such marginalia that becomes ... consequential: collecting at least 10 pieces of Asari Matriarch Dilinaga’s writings in Mass Effect, combined with ...
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  Videographic Star Studies and the "Late Voice": Carrie Fisher, John Hurt and Jeanne Moreau

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  Catherine Grant Aarhus Universitet

  August 15, 2017

  of their performances. I begin to poach these and play with them in an editing timeline. I then share ... voices, temporarily reanimated in playback.” I am beginning to wonder, therefore, whether my making of ...
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  "I don't go there for the war criminals": The Korean Wave, Japanese Isolationism, and Cultural Power on the International Stage

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  Jennifer deWinter Worcester Polytechnic Institute

  January 15, 2017

  describes the media and cultural exports that gained momentum at the end of the 1990s and the beginning of ...
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  Regarding Star Trek IV: A Very Brief Cultural History of Whale Song

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  Jon Crylen University of Iowa

  January 05, 2017

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  whale song begins with the 1970 LP Songs of the Humpback Whale, a collection of hydrophone recordings ...
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  Hallelujah: Needle-Drops and Genre Parody in Watchmen

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  Dru Jeffries Wilfrid Laurier University

  February 15, 2017

  Cohen In Focus Watchmen Curator's Note Beginning with Batman and continuing through the early ...
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  Closure and Continuation in the Gilmore Girls Reboot

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  Martin Zeller-Jacques Queen Margaret University

  March 23, 2017

  the beginning of her own story. The final four words, shared between mother and daughter, are: “Mom?” ...
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  Moonlight conjures blaqueer magic

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  ARZU KARADUMAN Ithaca College

  April 05, 2017

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  Moonlight is washed by the liquidity of the color blue from its beginning to the end; even before the ...

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