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UNMAKING THE WORLD

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Yahya Mete Madra Boğaziçi University

Sunday, September 21, 2014 — 5:15 pm

a conjugation of the death drive. I am not sure if I am able to convey what I mean successfully, but at least ...

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Appraising the adapted Red Wedding’s fidelity to emotional impact

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Andrea Nevitt Keele University

September 22, 2014

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Appraising the adapted Red Wedding’s fidelity to emotional impact Game of Thrones fan practices adaptation Curator's Note The GoT third season episode ‘The Rains of Castamere’, was hotly anticipated by ASoIaF fans because they expected it to include ...

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The Dagger in the Womb

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Thomas J. West III Syracuse University

Tuesday, September 23, 2014 — 1:21 am

clearly suggest that this is a world that is not in the least friendly to women and that this is a problem ...

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Creating Game of Thrones’ Cross-Demographic Appeal through Genre-Mixing Iconicity

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Garret Castleberry Mid-America Christian University

September 23, 2014

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Creating Game of Thrones’ Cross-Demographic Appeal through Genre-Mixing Iconicity audience appeal Game of Thrones genre conventions genre hybridity iconicity Spaghetti Westerns Curator's Note HBO's Game of Thrones achieves cross-medium success ...

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Nasty, Brutish, and Short: "Game of Thrones," History, and the Violence of Women's Lives

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Thomas J. West III Syracuse University

September 24, 2014

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events, and its people (or at least their worlviews) are drawn from and based on those in the one we ...

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"Order" As Mythological-Ideological Wish Fulfillment

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Garret Castleberry Mid-America Christian University

Thursday, September 25, 2014 — 3:49 am

genre-mixing and mass audience reach. It seems relatively straightforward that at least a part of HBO's ...

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When Algorithms Collide: (Failing to) Manage GoT Spoilers Using Science

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Jamie Henthorn Catawba College

September 25, 2014

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When Algorithms Collide: (Failing to) Manage GoT Spoilers Using Science Curator's Note While I had access to the show, I couldn’t watch any episode premiere of Game of Thrones this season. As such, I had to find a way to avoid spoilers for 24 hours ...

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Spoilsport

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Sarah Hanks University of Oklahoma

Thursday, September 25, 2014 — 1:37 pm

ruin the viewing/reading experience, at least according to a study performed by Nicholas Christenfeld ... a spoiler paragraph at the beginning of the narrative and then had the readers rate their experience in ...

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Place and Voice in Bear 71

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Sarah O'Brien Georgia Institute of Technology

October 01, 2014

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Place and Voice in Bear 71 surveillance identification digital animals Curator's Note The interactive documentary Bear 71 (Jeremy Mendes and Leanne Allison, National Film Board of Canada, 2012) invites users to toggle between a data visualization ...

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