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Guts Don’t Come Cheap in the Cinématheque, Pal: Guilt, Pleasure, and America’s Funniest Home Videos

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February 22, 2008

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Very fun clip. This week's

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Michael Z. Newman University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee

Friday, February 22, 2008 — 7:54 pm

Jeremy, you begin with a reference to Film Comment, which you also quote in your title. This tells me the ...

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Burgundy Histories? WEWS-TV “Catch 5!” 1970s promo

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Mark Williams Dartmouth College

February 26, 2008

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Thanks, Vicky. I'd love to

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Mark Williams Dartmouth College

Wednesday, February 27, 2008 — 12:37 am

address is evident. I know that sometimes this "content" can be excised, at least in the case of ...

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Baseball Is All It’s Quacked Up To Be

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Doug Battema Western New England University

February 27, 2008

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Baseball *Is* All It’s Quacked Up To Be 1950s amateurs Baseball branding discourse documentaries fandom Ken Burns Madiso Mallards marketing pro-am promos regionalism sports Curator's Note Inning Seven of Ken Burns’ “Baseball” argues that major socioe ...

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Hi Mark, Thanks for the

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Doug Battema Western New England University

Wednesday, February 27, 2008 — 6:59 pm

bygone past we want to romanticize begin to rear their ugly heads....) In this case, players typically ... tangible-- at least not immediately. Thus part of the reason for the relatively clean, well-kempt field and ... the team and its fans-- with the percentage of African-Americans on MLB rosters at at least ...

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