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  On Chances Lost: The World Outside Ed’s Garage

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  Mary Beltran University of Wisconsin-Madison

  November 14, 2007

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  On Chances Lost: The World Outside Ed’s Garage stereotyping socially relevant programming sitcom quality TV paratexts Mexican Americans Latinos Freddie Prinze diversity credit sequence Chico and the Man casting 1970s Curator's Note You may recognize ...
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  Where it Belongs: Positioning US dramas on Australian TV

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  Joshua Green Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  March 31, 2008

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  Where it Belongs: Positioning US dramas on Australian TV youth culture transnationalism The O.C. teen dramas promos paratexts Network Ten modeling Izzy Asper imagined audiences idents globalization domestic programming distribution demographics australia ...
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  "'You know what my favorite promotion is? Lost!' The ongoing convergence of content and promotion"

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  Max Dawson Indiana University

  February 17, 2009

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  first of my two videos, “ The Office Is Closed,” was made early during the strike, and begins with the ...
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  Springfield Sprawl: The Ad of the Game of the Movie of the Show

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  Jonathan Gray University of Wisconsin - Madison

  April 29, 2009

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  Springfield Sprawl: The Ad of the Game of the Movie of the Show video games trailer The Simpsons paratexts paratext overflow commercial intertexts Curator's Note This batch of trailers all very amusingly advertised the 2007 videogame, The Simpsons Ga ...
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  Packaging Politics: The Criterion Collection and The Battle of Algiers

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  Brianna E. Hyslop University of Texas at Austin

  February 25, 2011

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  the story begins and ends.  Yet the film still manages to portray the Algerian War for Independence ...
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  Silly Elephants Dancing Without Meaning? On "Paratexts Without Texts"

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  Jonathan Gray University of Wisconsin - Madison

  March 19, 2014

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  Silly Elephants Dancing Without Meaning? On "Paratexts Without Texts" trailers textuality texts text paratextuality paratexts paratext Genette C Me Dance Curator's Note I will never see this film. It should therefore seemingly only ever be ...
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  Teaching Orphan Black

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  Alisa Perren University of Texas at Austin

  April 13, 2015

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  Teaching Orphan Black television criticism Teaching pedagogy paratexts Orphan Black Curator's Note A couple of years ago, I decided to undertake a sustained analysis of one series in my  Television Analysis  course. Each week, we would apply a distin ...
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  The Affective Behind-the-Scenes Paratexts

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  Jason Mittell Middlebury College

  May 24, 2016

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  preceded the filming of the series, at least by Badalamenti’s account. But this paratext resonates with me ...
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  Rearticulating Star Texts Through Japanese Televisual Paratexts: Snow Man and SixTONES on Arashi ni shiyagare

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  Rosaley Gai Stanford University

  Lilian Higashikata The University of British Columbia

  August 31, 2020

  fans, at the very least, Snow Man’s and SixTONES’s names will stick in association to this appearance on ...