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  Post-Truth or Post-Trust?

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  Lisa Ellen Silvestri Gonzaga University

  February 06, 2017

  back then, at least we could trust facts and evidence. Today facts and evidence lose truth-value as ...
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  Watchmen: Rebirth, Reboot, Reycle

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  Blair Davis DePaul University

  February 11, 2017

  1 comment

  Watchmen: Rebirth, Reboot, Reycle watchmen In Focus comics studies adaptation Curator's Note The true origin of Watchmen’s heroes (and anti-heroes) doesn’t stem from the pages of DC Comics but rather one of their competitors – Charlton Comics, which ...
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  Playing Fair in GBBO

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  Graig Uhlin Oklahoma State University

  February 11, 2017

  1 comment

  Playing Fair in GBBO reality TV Great British Bake-Off competition cheating Curator's Note “I didn’t come here to make friends” is a clichéd mainstay on reality television, but would seem an odd fit for Great British Bake Off. The tone of the show is ...
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  Re: Playing Fair in GBBO

  Graig, Thanks for you

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  Gabriel Huddleston Texas Christian University

  Monday, February 13, 2017 — 8:14 pm

  I'm sure it's both, but I will look back to see how prevalent it is towards the beginning of the ...
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  Hallelujah: Needle-Drops and Genre Parody in Watchmen

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  Dru Jeffries Wilfrid Laurier University

  February 15, 2017

  Cohen In Focus Watchmen Curator's Note Beginning with Batman and continuing through the early ...
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  Re: Make America Dank Again: Why Political Memes Don’t Work

  Thanks for your excellent

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  Richard Jermain University of Tampa

  Tuesday, February 21, 2017 — 3:42 am

  more traditional agit-prop (they at least resemble the aesthetic approach); or if you see them as ...
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  Re: Watchmen: Rebirth, Reboot, Reycle

  serial production of comics vs. the single author

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  Felix Brinker Graduate School of North American Studies, Free University of Berlin

  Tuesday, February 28, 2017 — 10:44 am

  mention merchandising, at least since the 70s as well. Along the same lines, the constant drive to reboot ...
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  Rose-tinted Reboots: Television Remakes and Nostalgia

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  Hannah Green Allegheny College

  March 18, 2017

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  Rose-tinted Reboots: Television Remakes and Nostalgia Television Remakes Rory Gilmore nostalgia Lorelei Gilmore Gilmore Girls FX Fuller House Curator's Note FX Networks CEO John Landgraf terms the staggering number of scripted series (over 400 progra ...
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  Re: Rose-tinted Reboots: Television Remakes and Nostalgia

  Reboots

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  William Proctor Bournemouth University

  Tuesday, March 21, 2017 — 10:27 am

  ignores a pre-established narrative sequence to begin again in an alternate narrative universe. Both ... slate clean and beginning again as if the originals did not exist in the first place. Of course, reboots ... that is what a reboot aims to achieve: a beginning again. ...
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  Re: Rose-tinted Reboots: Television Remakes and Nostalgia

  Etymology

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  William Proctor Bournemouth University

  Wednesday, March 22, 2017 — 10:48 am

  a comic book concept to describe the Legion of Superheroes which wiped the slate clean to begin again. ... beginning." From this perspective, even Fuller House is a re-launch as opposed to a continuation. If it ...

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