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  Playing Fair in GBBO

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  Graig Uhlin Oklahoma State University

  February 11, 2017

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  Playing Fair in GBBO reality TV Great British Bake-Off competition cheating Curator's Note “I didn’t come here to make friends” is a clichéd mainstay on reality television, but would seem an odd fit for Great British Bake Off. The tone of the show is ...
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  ABBA 1974: The Birth of Swedish Modernity?

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  Christian Christensen Karlstad University — Sweden

  November 05, 2007

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  ABBA 1974: The Birth of Swedish Modernity? globalization marketing nostalgia competition nationalism music Sweden 1970s Eurovision ABBA Scandinavia Bjorn Borg IKEA Curator's Note For me, this clip of ABBA's winning performance at the 1974 Eurovi ...
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  Love as Generalized Competition in 28 Hotel Rooms

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  Adam Cottrel Georgia State University

  April 03, 2015

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  Love as Generalized Competition in 28 Hotel Rooms neo-liberalism love liquidity competition cinema capitalism Curator's Note Matt Ross’s debut feature, 28 Hotel Rooms  (2012), takes love as a thematic starting point to question the nature of contempo ...
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  Infinite Auditions: Dance as Data Set and Habit

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  Anna Beatrice Scott University of California -- Riverside

  December 07, 2007

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  Infinite Auditions: Dance as Data Set and Habit appropriation performance race competition dance video games the body MMOG Curator's Note Bodiless bodies are stacked inside the rhythm and moves; fleshless dancers skim keys eliding their epidermal rea ...