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  Re: The Fog: John Carpenter’s ‘Liebestod’

  The Thing, The Fog, and Halloween perspectives

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  Wednesday, October 31, 2018 — 6:17 pm

  movies. For instance, in The Thing-even if the score of Morricone begins at the very beginning of the ... movie, during the credits, which is different from The Fog as you wrote-, the real story only begins when ... exactly the same. The film begins in media res (yes, you correctly read) with Michael killing his sister, ...
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  Persistence of the Myth of Sisyphus in Visual Culture

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  David Melbye

  November 05, 2018

  Sisyphean paradigm is the larger notion of futility conveyed through at least the suggestion of the rock ...
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  Re: AMC’s Breaking Bad and the Myth of the Frontier

  Cultural Trajectories of Conceit and/or the Critique Thereof

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  Tuesday, November 6, 2018 — 5:19 pm

  Breaking Bad, at least according to certain episodes, fits well within conceptualizations of an emerging ... least a pivotal "showdown," occurs within a peripheral desert wasteland. Another such entry ...
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  Why the West remains America's Most Potent Myth

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  Christopher Minz Georgia State University

  November 08, 2018

  vast mythologies worldwide, not the least of which the Greek or Norse, are meant not to be taken as ...
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  "How Safe Do You Feel?": James Bond in the Post 9/11 Era

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  L Knight

  November 15, 2018

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  surveillance. Although nontraditional warfare has been in existence since the beginning of time, our closest historical ...
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  Andy Everson: Resistance and Defiance in Indigenous Digital Art

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  Melissa Avdeeff Coventry University

  December 05, 2018

  Maskegon-Iskwew spoke about the noosphere, or the sphere or human thought, as a way to begin to comprehend both ...
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  Bringing Old Equipment Back to Life

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  John Ellis Royal Holloway University of London

  December 11, 2018

  intended to restore at least some of that ability, to bring the retro back to life. ...
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  Neoliberalism's Saudade: The Midnight's "America 2"

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  TylerQuickUSC USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism

  December 13, 2018

  phonoaesthetic in order to be communicable in the first instance.  At the beginning of the song, Tyler Lyle, the ...
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  Ethics, Performance, and Identity in Aca-Fan Research

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  Tom Phillips University of East Anglia

  December 18, 2018

  relationship to EVE promoters Dann and Emily Read, and the access that allows. Since beginning to attend EVE ... process begin? More so than another fannish text I care about, here I have a level of privilege in being ... which a discourse of popular feminism is beginning to challenge the traditionally hypermasculine ...
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  Acafanning at FannibalFest

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  Lori Morimoto Independent Scholar

  December 19, 2018

  acafandom (at least as I increasingly experience it), it’s a liminal subjectivity characterized by, in ...

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