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Re: Digital Streaming Services in Turkey

new viewing and production practices

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Jülide Etem Indiana University, Bloomington

Friday, April 6, 2018 — 10:11 pm

Turkish audiences at least in two ways. First, the episodes of originals in the digital platforms are ...

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AMC’s Breaking Bad and the Myth of the Frontier

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Lisa Weckerle Kutztown University

April 29, 2018

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AMC’s Breaking Bad and the Myth of the Frontier Breaking Bad colonization New Visions of the Old West Curator's Note According to Slotkin, “…the Myth [of the Frontier] represented the redemption of American spirit or fortune as something to be achiev ...

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The Canadian Good Life in Gunless

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Andrea Braithwaite University of Ontario Institute of Technology

April 29, 2018

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The Canadian Good Life in Gunless the western The Northern New Visions of the Old West history Gunless diversity Canada Curator's Note The Northern started as a pulp phenomenon in the early twentieth century, relocating Western tropes north of the bo ...

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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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Re: The Canadian Good Life in Gunless

Displacing Genocide and Other National Atrocities

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Brian Steinbach Kansas University

Thursday, May 3, 2018 — 5:30 pm

well--or at least, moments of grief that hit close to him? ...

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Re: Encoding Race in Westworld

Nuance

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Sasha Crawford-Holland University of Southern California

Friday, May 4, 2018 — 6:30 pm

(spoilers) the uprising binary begins to fracture (hinted at in Dolores and Maeve's confrontation in ... episode 2) and as more complex coalitions begin to form. ...

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Creating Safe Space at OutlantaCon

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The Chameleon & Pinky Shear OutlantaCon

May 07, 2018

community. The space we have created in our Culture & Activism track begins with working to know and ...

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BLADE and the Foundations of Marvel Superhero's Movie Empire

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Dan Hassler-Forest Utrecht University

May 31, 2018

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this journey’s beginning. Perhaps a key reason why Blade doesn’t often get the credit it deserves is ... step in the right direction would at least be for Marvel to bring back Blade, and give him the place he ...

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