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  An Argument in the Ordinary

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  Sara Ghazi Asadollahi Georgia State University

  February 12, 2026

  An Argument in the Ordinary Curator's Note How do you pick a film for a theme? Do we begin ...
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  The Information

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  Jordan Chrietzberg Georgia State University

  February 02, 2026

  moving images—both as study and sociality. This post will only begin to tackle the first task. It is  ...
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  Introduction to Special Issue on Audiovisual Criticism

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  Jane M. Gaines Columbia University

  January 23, 2026

  once said ([1956] 2005). And I count at least four of these old problems that video essayism asks us to ... that their signifiers are so unlike to begin with and that, to state it outright, linguistic ... classic motion pictures, beginning with the model of  Brief Encounter  (David Lean, UK, 1945) and ...
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  Redefining Authority: Family Communication and Identity Formation in Avatar: The Last Airbender

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  ChrisLynne Stokes Texas Tech University

  March 13, 2026

  audiences that healing within families begins not with control, but with communication. ...
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  Where Stories Rest: Encountering Community and Memory

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  Jennifer Blanks Texas A&M University

  February 18, 2026

  knowledge, the research prioritized dialogue, transparency, and collaboration—beginning with ...
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  Talk as Survival: Family Communication Patterns and Nontraditional Family Life in Shameless

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  Sumeyya Akdilek Texas Tech University

  March 13, 2026

  Fitzpatrick, 2002). FCP begins with the idea that families are defined not only by those who live together but ...
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  “The Instant in Which”: What Big Jet TV Livestreaming and TikTok Cat Videos Have in Common 

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  Jane M. Gaines Columbia University

  January 26, 2026

  In one, the camcorder operator is challenged to keep the enormous jet in the frame, beginning from ... The Intuition of the Instant  (1932).  And,  déjà vu, Bachelard’s theorization begins with the ... to a dead halt—at least momentarily…” (2003, 118). Now back to Jerry channeling viewer anxiety about ...