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  On Watching and Seeing: The Limits of Cell Phone Evidence

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  Antar Tichavakunda University of Southern California

  March 02, 2015

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  On Watching and Seeing: The Limits of Cell Phone Evidence Racial Stereotypes Cellphone Witness Week blackness Curator's Note In a press conference following a police shooting a reporter asked a police captain, “Are you basically saying this guy was t ...
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  Problematic Motherhood: Disney Princesses and the Missing or Overbearing Mother

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  Kate Morgan Newscastic/The Electric Feast

  March 30, 2016

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  Problematic Motherhood: Disney Princesses and the Missing or Overbearing Mother motherhood Freud Disney Princesses Curator's Note When considering the pantheon of Disney Princesses and the presentations of femininity found within its parameters, it i ...
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  Anticipatory Media and Fan Produced Anticipation

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  Keith M. Johnston University of East Anglia

  April 12, 2016

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  Anticipatory Media and Fan Produced Anticipation Fan-made posters Avengers Anticipatory Media Curator's Note The last decade has seen a huge rise in the frequency, availability and ubiquity of advance promotional materials such as film posters or tra ...
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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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  Watchmen: Rebirth, Reboot, Reycle

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  Blair Davis DePaul University

  February 11, 2017

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  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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  "Who Makes These Kinds of Things?" Dynamics of Power in Madden NFL

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  Elysia Galindo-Ramirez Bellisario College of Communications, Penn State

  March 25, 2017

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  "Who Makes These Kinds of Things?" Dynamics of Power in Madden NFL Sports Video Games sports Madden NFL Football Curator's Note   Madden NFL is currently one of the most successful sport video game series on the market, with new games relea ...
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  Celebrity resistance to #MeToo and #TimesUp

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  Spring Duvall Salem College

  January 24, 2018

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  Celebrity resistance to #MeToo and #TimesUp resistance narrative media activism hashtag activism gender and sexuality celebrity Curator's Note   In the months since actress Alyssa Milano’s promotion of the hashtag #MeToo sent it ricocheting through s ...
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  The Making of The Night of the Iguana in Mexico

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  Daniel Steinhart University of Oregon

  September 18, 2018

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  The Making of The Night of the Iguana in Mexico Hollywood runaway production Mexico making-of Curator's Note On the Trail of the Iguana is a promotional featurette that captures the making of The Night of the Iguana (1964). The featurette was produce ...
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  Re: Growing Up Potter: Death and Maturity in the Harry Potter Fandom

  Beginning of the End

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  Sean Geoghegan Cardiff University

  Tuesday, November 16, 2010 — 4:03 pm

  And of course we now have the series itself drawing to a close and a different kind of death. The end of the franchise akin to a family member being diagnosed with an incurable illness. Is their hope that the subject (text) can be saved? Would it be fair ...
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  Re: No Knight, no flight: Television's missing Dark Knight and Man of Steel

  Beginning again and again

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  Ryan Lizardi SUNY Polytechnic Institute

  Tuesday, February 3, 2015 — 3:27 am

  Thank you for the kind words, and the great additional thoughts. I think your point about television being the perfect form for cyclical re-consumption of the origin story as transformation is so important to consider. I am thinking of the ways in which t ...

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