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  A24 as Popular Global Art Cinema

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  Corey Couch Georgia State University

  November 10, 2022

  beginning with the indie sleaze and cult classics of the 90s after an 80s blockbuster renaissance, and ... succinctly in the Under the Skin (2013). In the beginning, it is a character who is in danger. In moments of ...
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  That Joker on TV

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  Michael Mazzacane UCLA, Cinema & Media Studies

  February 15, 2022

  A way to begin historically grounding the Joker is to view him as an inherently satiric vessel. ... Satirical discourse begins to lock a Joker into a specific time and place as satire exists as an address ...
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  Localism against nationalism: Resisting being Chinese in Hong Kong

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  Micky Lee Suffolk University

  February 22, 2022

  years before it was returned to China in 1997. Beginning in the 1960s, media stereotypes about mainland ...
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  This Way Out Radio (1988-): Preserving an LGBTQ Collection from Closets and Collectives

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  BrianDeShazor This Way Out

  March 18, 2022

  there were no established standards.    The preservation of the collection begins with phase ...
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  Props as Legible Labor

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  Mike Phillips Southern Illinois University Carbondale

  December 01, 2022

  end of the film, as the white protagonist begins his journey back East, he pauses to place a flower on ...
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  The New Makeup: Euphoria’s Glitter Tears

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  Ryan Banfi Department of Cinema Studies, New York University

  April 25, 2022

  paint them. This imitation of crying begins without the eye producing the tear. Perhaps these makeup ... fall. They are painted on. The tears were there to begin with.   References Abelman, D. (2019). Euphoria ...
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  The Joker as Middle Eastern Other

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  Stephen Bennett Institute for Palestine Studies-USA

  February 16, 2022

  remained high. Near the beginning of the series the Joker acquires a cruise missile and rather than fire it ...
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  Antifandom of CRT as Fannish Attachment to Whiteness

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  Mel Stanfill University of Central Florida

  March 28, 2022

  Beginning in 2021, “Critical Race Theory” became a buzzword in popular discourse, used to describe ...
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  Strength & Visibility In the Ordinary: Jordan Peele's Use of Black Women in Black Horror

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  Rockia K. Harris

  Asha S. Winfield Louisiana State University

  October 06, 2022

  BlackHorror storytelling StrongBlackWomen Curator's Note Beginning in the 1940s, Black Horror films were ...
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  Transfiguration and Fandom: Shifting Symbolism of Harry Potter Merchandise

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  Marty Heath University of Illinois - Chicago

  November 30, 2022

  a fandom.  However, this dynamic is complicated when one begins to question their affiliation with the ...

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