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  Performing Proximity to Fame in RU Talkin’ R.E.M. RE: Me?

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  Justin Owen Rawlins The University of Tulsa

  July 29, 2019

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  performance Curator's Note “This is RU Talkin’ R.E.M. RE: Me?,” begins Scott Aukerman at the outset of ... performance. “Clusterfest” begins with 50 minutes (nearly half the episode) of the hosts narrating for the ... the unbelieving tribute band begins to play with their idol, the hosts’ declarations to the live ...
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  Fandom Good Works

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  Tanya D. Zuk, Ph.D. Georgia State University

  August 19, 2019

  of fandom doing charitable works—almost every fan convention has at least one charity they fundraise ... partners with at least two local charities. This is not to mention the many fan-run charitable ...
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  Ethics, Performance, and Identity in Aca-Fan Research

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  Tom Phillips University of East Anglia

  December 18, 2018

  relationship to EVE promoters Dann and Emily Read, and the access that allows. Since beginning to attend EVE ... process begin? More so than another fannish text I care about, here I have a level of privilege in being ... which a discourse of popular feminism is beginning to challenge the traditionally hypermasculine ...
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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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  Execute Minute 47: On Star Wars Wars

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  Daniel Reynolds Emory University

  December 14, 2015

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  displays the brightest layer for each pixel. It begins with six simultaneous opening text crawls, ... 132.8 minutes, so the 47th minute comes very near the beginning of the average Star Wars film’s second ...
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  “You Got No Idea What’s Goin’ On On That Island!”: What SNL Can Teach Us About Lost

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  Ivan Askwith Big Spaceship

  February 13, 2008

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  stereotyped representation of gendered concerns and interests: at least in this elevator, men care about plot, ...
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  A Silver Lining for Fan-Made Indie Games

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  Anastasia Salter University of Baltimore

  August 19, 2011

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  with two more pending. Can we expect every company to begin ceding its intellectual property rights and ...
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  “I AM the Doctor”: Polysemic rhetoric and non-traditional audiences in Doctor Who

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  Christopher J. Olson DePaul University

  December 16, 2013

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  begin with the show’s generic positioning, which includes science fiction, romance, adventure, history, ...
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  Something to Prove?: Contemplating the Fake Geek Academic

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  Suzanne Scott The University of Texas at Austin

  December 04, 2014

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  I wholeheartedly embrace the ethos of “open source academia,” but media scholars are only now beginning to grapple ...
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  Not a Creature Type: Playing While Queer

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  Daren Fowler Georgia State University

  June 09, 2016

  4 comments

  with his number written on it, telling me to call if I ever want to have some fun—thus beginning an ...

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