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  Authorizing Alternative Authorships: The Popular Serialities of Superhero Blockbuster Spoofs

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  Daniel Stein DFG Research Unit "Popular Seriality," John-F.-Kennedy-Institute, FU Berlin

  December 16, 2011

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  summer; The Key of Awesome produces spoofs serially). Its existence foregrounds (at least) two crucial ...
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  Plurimediality and the Serial Figure

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  Ruth Mayer & Shane Denson Leibniz University of Hannover

  December 13, 2011

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  take off yours," quips Joker near the beginning. This is the one thing, however, that serial ...
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  TV series, metaseriality and "the very special episode"

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  Andreas Jahn-Sudmann John-F-Kennedy-Institute, Free University Berlin

  December 15, 2011

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  TV series, metaseriality and "the very special episode" Very Special Episode Popular Seriality Metaseriality Curator's Note */ "Don't do 'the very special episode' in which the characters have to deal with addictions, am ...
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  Serial Characterization and Inferred Interiority

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  Jason Mittell Middlebury College

  December 14, 2011

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  Serial Characterization and Inferred Interiority seriality Popular Seriality interiority character Breaking Bad Curator's Note One great challenge facing moving image media is portraying a character’s interior thoughts and emotions. While literature ...
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  That Soothing Balm of Latent Discontent: MAD MEN Unstresses the 21st Century

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  Frank Kelleter Göttingen University (Germany)

  December 12, 2011

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  That Soothing Balm of Latent Discontent: MAD MEN Unstresses the 21st Century television series seriality Popular Seriality Mad Men Curator's Note MAD MEN is part of a larger group of popular series that share a competitive interest in televisual &quo ...