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  Can the Sidekick Protest? The Dissonant Sidekick and the Limits of Representing Difference in Contemporary Media

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  Jeff Casey University of Wisconsin-Madison

  December 16, 2014

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  Can the Sidekick Protest? The Dissonant Sidekick and the Limits of Representing Difference in Contemporary Media gender genre homosocial frienship homosociality Race and Representation sidekicks whiteness Curator's Note Gore Verbinski’s The Lone Rang ...
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  Re: Beyond Broadcast: Launching NITV on Isuma TV

  Hi-speed video in low-speed communities

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  Norman Cohn Isuma University

  Wednesday, May 13, 2009 — 2:40 pm

  printing press. Almost everything in the 21st century will be conducted at least partly by internet. Being ... hours per week of Inuktitut-language time slots, the least since the 1980’s. Meanwhile IsumaTV’s DIAMA ... maintain.   We hope to install NITV on IsumaTV in at least seven Nunavut communities this fall. At the same ...
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  Without Cheese, There Wouldn’t Be an Inland Empire

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  Timothy Holland Emory University Department of Film & Media

  October 31, 2024

   some character, somewhere—Nikki, Susan, and at least two others, perhaps more or less—brings new ... characters and themes from his cinematic oeuvre, not least the nightmares of the Hollywood dream machine that ... of 2017.”  [4]  Lynch’s LA story might be told in at least three different ways, but it is hard to ...
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  Toward a Vulvar Signifier: Rob Zombie’s 21st Century Mytho-Poetic Revision

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  Christopher Minz Georgia State University

  December 04, 2024

  through the advent of the Witch as emergent holy figure.  We begin with a shot of Heidi, played by ... beginning her journey toward the eruption that will culminate in the repressed’s return, she dreams she ...
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  Queer World Building and Utopian Possibilities

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  Stacy Rusnak Georgia Gwinnett College

  March 10, 2025

  affirmations of different gender taxonomies.  Such affirmations begin not by subverting masculine power or ... begins.  Biker girls with big breasts have been replaced by transgendered women in sundresses riding bicycles to ...
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  Encoding Race in Westworld

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  Sasha Crawford-Holland University of Southern California

  April 30, 2018

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  Encoding Race in Westworld race New Visions of the Old West digital technology Curator's Note From its genocidal belief in manifest destiny to its melancholic preservation of a conservative social order, the Western has historically been a white supr ...
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  Calling on the Colbert Nation: How fan practices complicate irony

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  Catherine Burwell University of Toronto

  January 17, 2008

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  Calling on the Colbert Nation: How fan practices complicate irony politics fandom parody participation irony Stephen Colbert The Colbert Report Linda Hutcheon Colbert Nation Green Screen Challenge Jedis Curator's Note Irony, we know, is always a slip ...
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  The Essential Recap: Memory, Amnesia, and Anticipation in Serial Television

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  Derek Johnson University of Wisconsin, Madison

  September 20, 2007

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  The Essential Recap: Memory, Amnesia, and Anticipation in Serial Television Lost narrative Battlestar Galactica memory paratext recap seriality redundancy Alan McKee Curator's Note After purchasing a television season on DVD years ago, I was immediat ...
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  Fantastic Journey, Emotional Journey: Mobile Media as Emotive Performance

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  Elizabeth Evans University of Nottingham

  February 18, 2010

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  Fantastic Journey, Emotional Journey: Mobile Media as Emotive Performance public space performance mobile media identity emotion Curator's Note Mobile phones have long been the focus of discussions concerning their role in identity construction. Hand ...
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  What REALitieS Are in the Classroom? How a Diary, a Teacher, and 150 Students Changed the World

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  Aron Christian Georgia State University - Department of Communication

  September 29, 2010

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  What REALitieS Are in the Classroom? How a Diary, a Teacher, and 150 Students Changed the World National Banned Book Week Freedom Writers critical pedagogy Curator's Note This clip from The Freedom Writers exhibits the harsh realities for students po ...

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