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  Re: Sochi Pop: Getting Lucky with Sex, Force, and Proliferating Signifiers

  Yes, Leanne, I think the

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  Aaron Dickinson Sachs Saint Mary's College of California

  Thursday, May 5, 2016 — 3:53 pm

  least to watch), and that, in some ways, prison is there to serve as entertainment for us who are not in ...
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  "Talk Bernie to Me": Political (and Sexual) Authority in an Unofficial Bernie Sanders Campaign Song

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  Dana Gorzelany-Mostak Georgia College

  May 09, 2016

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  imagery. As the song proper begins, Inez writhes by the pool and sings of her love for country and her urge ...
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  The Affective Behind-the-Scenes Paratexts

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  Jason Mittell Middlebury College

  May 24, 2016

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  preceded the filming of the series, at least by Badalamenti’s account. But this paratext resonates with me ...
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  The Trumpster and the Statesman: Civility/Incivility and the Limits of Good Government

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  D. Elisabeth Glassco Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

  June 01, 2016

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  a conception of civility as manners is the least helpful way of thinking about the relationship between ...
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  Trump audiences: Fired up! Ready to rumble!

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  Robert Spicer Millersville University

  June 02, 2016

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  Trump audiences: Fired up! Ready to rumble! Trump political violence masses mass culture audience studies Curator's Note In The Citizen Audience Richard Butsch discusses changing social norms surrounding theater audiences in mid-19 th century America ...
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  Re: Trump audiences: Fired up! Ready to rumble!

  the brand

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  Robert Spicer Millersville University

  Friday, June 3, 2016 — 5:01 am

  party's brand, at least for now. ...
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  Monster of Monsters: Rendering the Abject in Magic: the Gathering

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  Hannah Scharlin-Pettee Independent

  June 06, 2016

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  Monster of Monsters: Rendering the Abject in Magic: the Gathering the abject Magic: the Gathering game mechanics Curator's Note In Monster Culture: (Seven Theses), Jeffrey Jerome Cohen offers a reading of monsters as symbolic constructs that embody s ...
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  Re: Monster of Monsters: Rendering the Abject in Magic: the Gathering

  Affects of play mechanics

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  Adam Cottrel Georgia State University

  Monday, June 6, 2016 — 2:00 pm

  describe, or at least it isn't so overwhelming to the point where you want to concede immediately. It ...
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  That’s Not Funny!: Cultural Capital and Comedic Critique

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  Stephanie Brown Washington College

  June 06, 2016

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  That’s Not Funny!: Cultural Capital and Comedic Critique stand-up comedy humor gender feminism cultural critique craft of comedy carnivalesque Curator's Note It’s often said that the best way to kill comedy is to analyze it and that feminists can’t t ...
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  Structuring the Gaze in Lowbrow Comedy

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  Benjamin Kole Aspray Northwestern University

  June 07, 2016

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  Structuring the Gaze in Lowbrow Comedy shock cuts gross-out comedy craft of comedy Curator's Note Of 2014’s Dumb and Dumber sequel, Manohla Dargis quipped, “The Farrellys are still not much interested in film as a visual medium…you might as well be l ...

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