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  Re: The Comfort Women of the Digital Industries: Asian Women in David Fincher's "The Social Network"

  senses of "exposure"

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  Seth Perlow Georgetown University

  Monday, January 17, 2011 — 2:48 pm

  you're beginning to unpack the ways in which the hyper-sexualization and erotic exoticization of Asian ... women in fact obscures their presence as raced subjects--one wants to say, raced laborers. At least in ...
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  Re: The Noodle Master

  Appreciating Tampopo

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  Samir Dayal Bentley University

  Tuesday, March 1, 2011 — 9:08 pm

  food but of film.  Meanwhile, I would say that one of the insights we're recognizing, or at least ... that I've been promoting, is that the best writing as well as the best food appreciation begins ...
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  Re: Stranger in a strange land: Quality television's episodic failures

  Good thoughts

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  Cory Barker Bradley University

  Thursday, April 21, 2011 — 5:27 pm

  "worst" from the very beginning. I think that title has probably only exacerbated further as time has gone ... this one at least gets the conversation going. I would actually love to hear from other people to see ...
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  Re: Behind the scenes of 'Les Trucs du Cinema'

  The explanation

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  Dan North The University of Exeter

  Saturday, November 12, 2011 — 5:00 pm

  we need a model of analysis that begins from the standpoint that the spectator is engaged and ... Lumieres' train- they are the mythical, or at the very least hypothetical paratextless spectators, unable to ...
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  Re: When Algorithms Collide: (Failing to) Manage GoT Spoilers Using Science

  Spoilsport

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  Sarah Hanks University of Oklahoma

  Thursday, September 25, 2014 — 1:37 pm

  ruin the viewing/reading experience, at least according to a study performed by Nicholas Christenfeld ... a spoiler paragraph at the beginning of the narrative and then had the readers rate their experience in ...
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  Re: The Ancient Psychic Tandem War Elephant: Adventure Time and Existentialism

  Existentialism in Adventure Time

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  Alexis Aguam NYU TSOA

  Friday, January 9, 2015 — 4:10 pm

  as the beginning. If and when I have kids they will have a steady diet of Adventure Time, to go along ... impetus to live a significant life. Adventure Time is pretty clear in at least this one aspect: life is ...
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  Re: Situating Hannibal within the ‘Fullerverse’: Now More Than Ever Seems It Rich to Die

  Addendum

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  Lori Morimoto Independent Scholar

  Monday, September 21, 2015 — 3:39 pm

  rewatch in earnest (note: it's so much better the second time around), I begin to think that what ... don't understand/In fact it scares us/And this monster is mysterious at least/Bring your guns/Bring your ...
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  It's almost Shakespearean

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  Erika Johnson-Lewis St. Petersburg College

  April 24, 2012

  begins with with Al Swearengen, sweaty and bleeding, knife in hand, exclaiming, “Welcome to fucking ... The last section begins with often humorous--if at times ridiculous--speeches, and finally moves to ... show talk funny? Does it somehow point to television, or at least television created by someone who has ...
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  The Blood is the Life/Death: Queer Contagion and Viral Vampirism in the Age of HIV/AIDS

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  Andrew Owens DePaul University

  August 05, 2014

  9 comments

  horror HIV/AIDS and Television Curator's Note Beginning in the summer of 1981, a smattering of ... by beginning a headlining story stating unequivocally that the “lifestyle of some male homosexuals ... cancer,” at least until the HIV virus was was officially named as such in May 1986. ...
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  Tracing the Post-Human impulse: Confessions of the Messenger

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  Jason Derby Georgia State University

  January 19, 2015

  4 comments

  of incredible abilities, not the least of which is their astounding intelligence, and has exhausted ... marker at the far end of the post-human then how can we think of the beginning of this process? Following ... argument better by framing it in terms of exposure. That is to say that we can see the beginning of the ...

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