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  Re: The Many Texts of Textless Paratexts

  Perpetual Liminality

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  Erik Clabaugh Georgia State University

  Tuesday, March 18, 2014 — 2:03 am

  Because there is no Minesweeper film--at least not yet--this clip serves as a kind of threshold to ...
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  Displacing Meaning: Parodic Ads “Without texts”

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  Taylor Nygaard University of Denver

  March 18, 2014

  6 comments

  Displacing Meaning: Parodic Ads “Without texts” Sundance parody Paratexts Without Texts film trailers Curator's Note This parodic trailer is a “paratext without a text.” It has no actual film that it is advertising. Instead it is an aggregation of tr ...
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  Re: Displacing Meaning: Parodic Ads “Without texts”

  Not Another Parody

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  Paul Benzon Skidmore College

  Tuesday, March 18, 2014 — 2:33 pm

  they're parodies? Because (at least in the case of your example) they don't actually exist? Perhaps ...
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  Silly Elephants Dancing Without Meaning? On "Paratexts Without Texts"

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  Jonathan Gray University of Wisconsin - Madison

  March 19, 2014

  4 comments

  Silly Elephants Dancing Without Meaning? On "Paratexts Without Texts" trailers textuality texts text paratextuality paratexts paratext Genette C Me Dance Curator's Note I will never see this film. It should therefore seemingly only ever be ...
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  Re: Silly Elephants Dancing Without Meaning? On "Paratexts Without Texts"

  Are we using "text" too broadly?

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  Ellen McCracken University of California, Santa Barbara

  Wednesday, March 19, 2014 — 10:07 pm

  that you at least call it 'a' text at the end.) But after all, your own careful reading of ...
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  This Actually Needs to Happen: The Daria Movie Trailer

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  Angelina Karpovich Brunel University

  March 20, 2014

  2 comments

  between the end of Generation X and the beginning of Generation Y, were, by a long shot, the oldest people ... beginning to experience genuine nostalgia for the first time in our lives. It is significant that the fake ...
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  Living Footnotes: Paratexts Without a Text?

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  Ellen McCracken University of California, Santa Barbara

  March 21, 2014

  1 comment

  outside the novel. In these autographic paratexts or second-degree footnotes, Díaz begins an enhanced ... “living” extensions are effectively paratexts without a text, or at least a largely eclipsed text. Cabrera, ...
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  What Are We Talking About When We Talk About Black Twitter?

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  M Clark UNC Chapel Hill

  March 24, 2014

  1 comment

  then, do we begin to talk about that?​ ...
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  "Rape Culture" and the Social Media

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  April Cobos Old Dominion University

  March 31, 2014

  11 comments

  "Rape Culture" and the Social Media social media sexual assault Circulating pain Curator's Note This is a large portion of the video made by a friend of one of the convicted men in the Steubenville rape case after he received photographs of ...
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  Snuff love: British nostalgia and the mythology of real death in VoD horror

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  Johnny Walker Northumbria University

  April 01, 2014

  9 comments

  Snuff love: British nostalgia and the mythology of real death in VoD horror Jason Impey Circulating pain amateur horror Curator's Note In recent years, film and media studies has witnessed growing interest in the areas of “informal” film distribution ...

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