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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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  Yellow Fever: Born Digital on Battlestar Galactica

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  Lisa Nakamura University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign

  July 09, 2007

  10 comments

  Yellow Fever: Born Digital on Battlestar Galactica stereotyping Sci-fi representation race digital Battlestar Galactica Asian Curator's Note Sharon Valerii, played by Korean-Canadian actress Grace Park, is a young, pretty, highly educated Asian woman ...
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  God and Country and Scotty McCreery

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  Katherine Meizel Oberlin Conservatory of Music

  May 30, 2011

  11 comments

  God and Country and Scotty McCreery Scotty reality TV American Idol post mortem Curator's Note "Apparently," Gore Vidal wrote (unless Penn Jillette made that one up, too), "a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at gr ...
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  Frame-line to On-line: Freezing the Medial Slipstream

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  Garrett Stewart The University of Iowa

  October 16, 2023

  image, cataloged on Rondepierre’s superb website, can illustrate at least one long arc in the spectrum of ... Here one’s own “conceptual research” is invited, at least in my case, by sending curiosity back to the ...
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  The Yellow Peril rises from the grave... to get your White women! Orientalist themes in zombie stories

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  Eric Hamako Shoreline Community College

  September 28, 2009

  7 comments

  The Yellow Peril rises from the grave... to get your White women! Orientalist themes in zombie stories race rape Orientalism Asian racism violence zombie horde Taken Resident Evil, Yellow Peril Arab Muslim sexual assault gang rape Curator's Note   In ...
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  Dawn of the Dead (1978): Zombies and Human Nature

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  Kim Paffenroth Iona College

  September 30, 2009

  2 comments

  Dawn of the Dead (1978): Zombies and Human Nature Romero zombies undead Dawn of the Dead zombie films zombie movies Curator's Note Here we have the essence of George Romero’s zombies.It comes down to two aspects: 1) zombies are merely people;2) zombi ...
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  It' so butch and femme: Reexamining Gender Representation on "The L Word"

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  Gina Mitchell Bates College

  September 21, 2009

  5 comments

  It' so butch and femme: Reexamining Gender Representation on "The L Word" performance gender representation The L Word homophobia butch/femme heteronormativity The Palms Curator's Note  The controversy surrounding gender representation ...
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  The Link Prank: A Legacy of the Internet Cowboy

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  Ethan Tussey Georgia State University

  March 04, 2010

  4 comments

  The Link Prank: A Legacy of the Internet Cowboy Westerns virus spreading pranking masculinity linking internet chatroulette Curator's Note In his classic genre analysis Sixguns and Society: A Structural Study of the Western, Will Wright describes the ...
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  Can This Soap Be Saved?

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  Elana Levine

  February 14, 2012

  9 comments

  Can This Soap Be Saved? women General Hospital Future of Soap Opera daytime TV Curator's Note  With Katie Couric's syndicated talk show poised to take over General Hospital 's time slot on a substantial number of ABC affiliaties come Septem ...

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