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  Re: We So Seldom Look on Love in Porn

  Demonstration as Compensation

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  Karly-Lynne Scott Northwestern University

  Wednesday, April 1, 2015 — 1:40 am

  least of the attempt to prove to visibilize familial love in the way that MakeLoveNotPorn attempts to ... impetus to prove familial love because it is, at least ostensibly, unconditional, whereas romantic love is ...
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  My Heart Only Loves Once: Only Lovers and the Long(est) Term Relationship

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  Veronica Fitzpatrick University of Pittsburgh

  April 02, 2015

  2 comments

  My Heart Only Loves Once: Only Lovers and the Long(est) Term Relationship Vampires love duration Curator's Note What does it mean that the most excruciatingly romantic films of the last few years are about vampires? The association of vampires and ro ...
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  Re: My Heart Only Loves Once: Only Lovers and the Long(est) Term Relationship

  Love and economy.

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  Veronica Fitzpatrick University of Pittsburgh

  Thursday, April 2, 2015 — 1:13 pm

  this, is that Eve's familial love for her sister–at least as it manifests in her toleration–reaches ...
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  Love as Generalized Competition in 28 Hotel Rooms

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  Adam Cottrel Georgia State University

  April 03, 2015

  5 comments

  Love as Generalized Competition in 28 Hotel Rooms neo-liberalism love liquidity competition cinema capitalism Curator's Note Matt Ross’s debut feature, 28 Hotel Rooms  (2012), takes love as a thematic starting point to question the nature of contempo ...
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  Re: Love as Generalized Competition in 28 Hotel Rooms

  Freedom

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  Kalling Heck University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

  Friday, April 3, 2015 — 4:14 am

  “transaction” is brutal (to say the least), but I wonder if love isn’t actually one of the last lines of ...
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  Private Violence

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  Laurel Ahnert Georgia State University

  April 06, 2015

  1 comment

  Private Violence Private Violence gender Gay Neighborhoods Domestic Violence Domestic Abuse documentary Curator's Note Private Violence is a recent HBO documentary about a domestic abuse survivor, named Deanna, and her advocate, Kit. Though their two ...
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  Re: Private Violence

  "Why didn't you leave?"

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  Z. Hall, PhD Independent Scholar, U.S.A

  Monday, April 6, 2015 — 2:28 pm

  that they have ANY agency. Abusers, starting early in their relationship with the women, begin chipping ...
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  “With all due respect, I’m far from a slut”, the hidden social justice advocate in Maury Povich

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  Anonymous In Media Res Special Category

  April 10, 2015

  begins by Maury talking to the women in abusive relationships who admit they are abused by their husbands ... Themselves...They Need To Be Controlled!”. In this narrative, the show begins by having the husband talk to Maury ...
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  Teaching Orphan Black

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  Alisa Perren University of Texas at Austin

  April 13, 2015

  11 comments

  Teaching Orphan Black television criticism Teaching pedagogy paratexts Orphan Black Curator's Note A couple of years ago, I decided to undertake a sustained analysis of one series in my  Television Analysis  course. Each week, we would apply a distin ...
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  Re: Teaching Orphan Black

  I’ve been thinking about this

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  Liza-Anne Cabral Georgia State University

  Wednesday, April 15, 2015 — 1:34 pm

  Human though I can't help but feel that, at least for the time being, Orphan Black really is the ... best program to use. I can only begin to imagine the conversations that the series has brought up in ...

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