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  Digital Cinephilia: Terminal Velocity

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  Brian Wall Binghamton University

  December 10, 2012

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  Gehr’s camera conjures out of a bleak corridor—but at least they have the opportunity, due my ...
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  Hysterical Cinephilia

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  Gordon Sullivan University of Pittsburgh

  December 11, 2012

  2 comments

  Hysterical Cinephilia Hysterical Literature excess digital cinephilia contingency Curator's Note Cinephilia as such has always been theorized as a set of historical viewing practices, but what unites every cinephile from the Cahiers-crowd to today’s ...
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  Cinephilia Without Medium

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  Kalling Heck University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

  December 13, 2012

  1 comment

  media. Therein lies the key to beginning to think through the status of cinephilia in relation to the ...
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  Super Fly and the American Dream: Performing Asian Martial Arts in Blaxploitation Cinema

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  Celeste A. Fisher Notre Dame of Maryland University

  December 17, 2012

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  Super Fly and the American Dream: Performing Asian Martial Arts in Blaxploitation Cinema Super Fly Martial Arts Contemporary Exploitation Cinema blaxploitation Curator's Note The performance of Asian martial arts in the blaxploitation films of the se ...
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  Re: Hysterical Cinephilia

  Kal, you raise a good point -

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  Gordon Sullivan University of Pittsburgh

  Monday, December 17, 2012 — 9:25 pm

  project still feels more explanatory than affective (at least in that particular video- I know he wants to ...
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  Re: Super Fly and the American Dream: Performing Asian Martial Arts in Blaxploitation Cinema

  Martial Arts As Subaltern Signifier

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  Mike Van Esler University of Kansas

  Tuesday, December 18, 2012 — 3:07 am

  invocation of Asian martial arts (perhaps the most obvious signifier of Asian culture in America, at least in ... the 1970s) is to identify with a subaltern culture. At the very least, I think it is safe to say that ...
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  Owning Her Abjection: Lena Dunham's Queer Feminist Sexual Politics

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  Maria San Filippo Emerson College

  January 07, 2013

  15 comments

  Owning Her Abjection: Lena Dunham's Queer Feminist Sexual Politics Catherine Breillat feminist girls HBO Julia Kristeva Lena Dunham nudity queer the abject the body Curator's Note From the 2007 YouTube short featuring her bikini-clad and brushin ...
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  Critical Double-Standard?

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  Nedda Ahmed Georgia State University

  Monday, January 7, 2013 — 9:22 pm

  when that show aired (at least, not outrage about diversity). The show has its problems for sure, but ...
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  A Meaning of Minority in Girls

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  Ashar Foley SUNY Stony Brook

  January 08, 2013

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  A Meaning of Minority in Girls minority Lena Dunham girls accident Curator's Note In a 2012 Fresh Air interview, Girls creator Lena Dunham explained the show's focus on four white, middle-class girls as "an accident," a product of writ ...
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  Re: Owning Her Abjection: Lena Dunham's Queer Feminist Sexual Politics

  Just a thought

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  Tuesday, January 8, 2013 — 5:59 am

  no less) is somehow overstated? Only to those who don't take the point seriously. Or at least ... least we had some choice in deciding which preceding shows of this genre were meaningful to us. If you ... any indication of what's to come, he will have a sexual relationship with the least ...

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