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  'Not enough of him': Technology and Melancholia in 'Be Right Back'

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  Sarah Artt Edinburgh Napier University

  May 06, 2015

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  melancholia Black Mirror Curator's Note In 'Be Right Back', technology begins as comfort. The ...
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  Re: 'Not enough of him': Technology and Melancholia in 'Be Right Back'

  Ramble Alert!

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  Robert Wright University of Wolverhampton

  Wednesday, May 6, 2015 — 6:26 pm

  it's a bit of an odd episode because purely as entertainment I find it the least interesting, yet ...
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  Re: Commodity as a Political Pressure Valve in “Fifteen Million Merits”

  Time To Re-Watch This Episode

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  Frank Bridges Rutgers University

  Friday, May 8, 2015 — 5:17 pm

  This was my least favorite of the Black Mirror episodes. Partly do to it being- in my opinion at ...
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  Podcast Networks and the Growing Professionalization of Podcasting

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  Andrew Bottomley SUNY Oneonta

  May 21, 2015

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  Podcast Networks and the Growing Professionalization of Podcasting Radiotopia radio podcasting Podcast Week Curator's Note When podcasting emerged in the mid-2000s, the discourse surrounding this new media practice framed it as disruptive: a mostly u ...
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  Hardcore Historian: The Amateur as Expert

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  Andrew J. Salvati Drew University

  May 22, 2015

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  In this clip for example, Carlin begins his commentary by comparing the assassinations of Franz ...
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  Re: Podcast Networks and the Growing Professionalization of Podcasting

  Sky may not be falling ;-)

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  Cynthia Meyers College of Mount Saint Vincent

  Monday, May 25, 2015 — 4:19 am

  remain optimistic, at least for now, that podcasting will continue to innovate.:-) ...
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  “Just Leave Me to Do My Dark Bidding on the Internet”: How the Undead Live at Home in What We Do in the Shadows

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  Ella Tucan Georgia State University

  June 01, 2015

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  Zealand’s Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement make me smile from beginning to end? Chronicling the day-to-day ...
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  Who’s going to believe a talking head?

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  Dylan Trigg University of Memphis

  June 02, 2015

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  rapport between horror and comedy seems to us evident from the beginning of life to the end. Lacan tells ... with a horrifying realization that the body was never unified to begin with.   ...
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  Adam Wingard's Brian de Palma Moment: Intertextual Reference and the Citational Play of Horror-Comedy

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  John Roberts University of Colorado Boulder

  June 03, 2015

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  which begins as a thriller before careening into a sci-fi tinged action film, and finally culminating in ...
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  The Natives Are Restless in Disney’s Jungle Cruise

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  Melanie Wolske California State University Long Beach

  June 09, 2015

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  The Natives Are Restless in Disney’s Jungle Cruise summer entertainment savage stereotype Disney Jungle Cruise Curator's Note The Jungle Cruise is a Disney Park attraction that simulates a riverboat cruise through major rivers in Africa, South Americ ...

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