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  Bleak House- Beautiful Things

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  John Hartley Queensland University of Technology (Australia)

  November 17, 2006

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  Bleak House- Beautiful Things affect Youtube BBC fandom pro-am DIY Bleak House Gilian Anderson Andain Curator's Note I'm not sure what's most appropriate for In Media Res. Something notable from recent broadcast television, like BBC's ...
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  Playing with Peripherals

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  Ben Aslinger Bentley University

  September 24, 2007

  1 comment

  Playing with Peripherals affect audiences Dance Dance Revolution embodiment Guitar Hero interfaces John Guare Karaoke Revolution Lev Manovich memory nostalgia peripherals play Six Degrees of Separation video games Curator's Note “It was an experience ...
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  “Not Only Human”- an X-Files vid by Killa and Laura Shapiro

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  Tisha Turk Grinnell College

  January 29, 2008

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  agency, beginning with her passage through doorways and continuing in her translation of alien symbols ...
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  “Us”- a multivid by Lim

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  Kristina Busse Independent Scholar

  February 01, 2008

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  “Us”- a multivid by Lim V for Vendetta Star Trek Lim fannish engagement fandom fan vids editing affect Curator's Note /we’re living in a den of thieves Lim’s vid thematizes and illustrates how media fans engage with texts—not only the intense love fa ...
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  Transgression, Confession, and Ying Yang Twins’s “Wait (The Whisper Song)”

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  Michael Z. Newman University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee

  February 20, 2008

  1 comment

  Transgression, Confession, and Ying Yang Twins’s “Wait (The Whisper Song)” Ying Yang Twins whiteness transgression taste race music masculinity hip hop guilty pleasures cultural capital affect Curator's Note Owning up to a guilty pleasure is a perfor ...
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  Bug vs. Book: The Eternal Struggle

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  Dina Benson George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida

  March 27, 2008

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  Bug vs. Book: The Eternal Struggle viral video preservation oddities new media libraries Book Care affect academy Curator's Note “Book Care,” a video showcasing the pitfalls of mishandling library books, is the product of a partnership that includes ...
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  Queer Vibrations

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  Mel Y. Chen UC Berkeley

  May 06, 2010

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  scales; there is something more here, and I want to (begin to) find it. I am in utmost alignment with the ... it has been widely viewed, reposted, commented upon, and even parodied) might be at least in part ... iteration am I catching her on? (I found at least one imitation of this clip; but is there someone specific ...
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  Cinema's Exhaustion and the Vitality of Affect

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  Elena del Rio University of Alberta

  August 29, 2011

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  Cinema's Exhaustion and the Vitality of Affect vitality Steven Shaviro's Post-Cinematic Affect Shaviro exhaustion creative/experimental commodification cinema affect Curator's Note Like an expired body that blends with the dirt to form new ...
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  Documentary as Affective Mapping: General Orders No. 9

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  Laurel Ahnert Georgia State University

  January 28, 2013

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  Documentary as Affective Mapping: General Orders No. 9 nonfiction film Melancholy General orders no 9 essay film Documentary and Affect documentary affective mapping affect Curator's Note Robert Persons' haunting film, General Orders No. 9, is a ...
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  Dreams of Being/Killing Lara Croft: Exploring Agency and Gender in Tomb Raider

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  Agnes Trzak and Alex Annetts Anglia Ruskin University Cambridge

  March 11, 2013

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  Dreams of Being/Killing Lara Croft: Exploring Agency and Gender in Tomb Raider Women's Bodies video games Tomb Raider and Gender in Games Lara Croft feminism agency affect Curator's Note While designing the character of Lara Croft, Toby Gard env ...

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