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  My Default State is Phased

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  Stephanie Burt Harvard University

  September 04, 2023

  in at least four big ways.   1. Derealization and disembodiment. That's the feeling that you ... Mutant Massacre, in Fantastic Four vs. X-Men (1987), and when she returns from Whedonspace, beginning ... allows trans girls-- OK, some trans girls; OK, at the least, me-- to experience those kinds of bonds ...
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  X-Men: Apocalypse, Irony, and the Commercial Film Market

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  Ryan Pumroy University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee

  September 17, 2016

  because it started it all. Jean Grey caps off the short scene by saying “Well, least we can all agree the ...
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  The X-Men are Army Strong: Military Marketing and the Summer Movie Theater

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  Tanine Allison ACLS New Faculty Fellow in Film and Media Studies, Emory University

  June 16, 2011

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  The X-Men are Army Strong: Military Marketing and the Summer Movie Theater X-men The Contemporary Summer Blockbuster science fiction military recruitment Curator's Note War films have only rarely been part of the summer movie lineup, yet summer is wh ...
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  Holding Out For A Hiro

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  Henry Jenkins Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism, University of Southern California

  October 24, 2006

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  Holding Out For A Hiro transnationalism superheroes NBC comic books Heroes X-men Japan Curator's Note Hiro Nakamura, salary man, otaku, "superhiro," superfan, has emerged as the most popular character on NBC's new Heroes. Here are a fe ...
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  Re-envisioning our Possible Past(s): Alternative Histories in Contemporary Summer Blockbusters

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  Michael S. Duffy Department of Electronic Media and Film, Towson University

  June 14, 2011

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  Re-envisioning our Possible Past(s): Alternative Histories in Contemporary Summer Blockbusters X-men Transformers superhero prequel history franchise comic book blockbuster Curator's Note It’s interesting how this summer’s contemporary (in some cases ...