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  Re: Some movies are bad, but some are undead: Watchmen

  fantastic responses!

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  Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece Northwestern University

  Wednesday, March 18, 2009 — 7:09 pm

  going to try to fake it in the fakest way possible.  To at least gesture toward an answer to your final ...
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  How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the "Killer Condom"

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  Kaelin B.C. Alexander Cornell University

  March 19, 2009

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  How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the "Killer Condom" Sci-fi Queer Studies horror Bad Film Curator's Note Killer Condom (1996) is quite possibly the most pro-queer film of the past two decades. No, really. For all of its problems, Mar ...
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  Re: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the "Killer Condom"

  condom camp

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  Barton Scott Montana State University

  Thursday, March 19, 2009 — 5:23 pm

  every B-grade horror movie needs at least one drag queen in it. Failed gender, failed genre: why ...
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  Re: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the "Killer Condom"

  I could never come up with a better title than Killer Condom

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  Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece Northwestern University

  Thursday, March 19, 2009 — 8:04 pm

  sort of associative operation in body horror code female bodies as akin to or at least aligned with ... learned how to dress in drag, or at least drink a martini at Lucky Cheng’s; RuPaul’s Drag Race may be ... or at least stripped of some of its subversive power. When camp’s teeth are removed, does it just ...
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  What Bad Does

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  James Daniel Elam Northwestern University

  March 20, 2009

  3 comments

  Darkness/A Time of Light/The Crusade Begins” to the closing “Love Has Enemies,” it is hard to turn away from ... of bad films. In so doing, he has launched at least fifteen minutes of consumerist fame. What was ...
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  Behind the Laughter Curtain: Image(in)ing Later Life Marriage through Comedy

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  Melissa Aleman James Madison University, School of Communication Studies

  March 25, 2009

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  Marie will not “let” Frank talk, Frank begins singing “I’m not listening anymore do-da, do-da.” Shortly ... thereafter Marie covers her ears, faces Frank, and begins singing “Frank Marone shut up...”, creating ...
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  Are you on Facebook? Seniors and new communication technologies

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  Mei-Chen Lin Kent State University

  March 27, 2009

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  Are you on Facebook? Seniors and new communication technologies social networking Older adults internet Curator's Note   According to a recent Pew Internet study (2006), approximately 73% of the baby boomers and 46% of all seniors (i.e., above 65 yea ...
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  Re: Are you on Facebook? Seniors and new communication technologies

  Thank you for your feedback,

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  Mei-Chen Lin Kent State University

  Friday, March 27, 2009 — 9:01 pm

  "E-mentors" and help seniors to make their life stories online. We are in the beginning process of planning ...
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  Re: Are you on Facebook? Seniors and new communication technologies

  Jaye: Thank you for your

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  Mei-Chen Lin Kent State University

  Friday, March 27, 2009 — 9:24 pm

  the flip side of it. But, maybe the babyboomers will change that, at least in the US. I also love the ...
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  A Serious Alternative to Media Outreach

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  Matt Sienkiewicz University of Wisconsin

  March 30, 2009

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  A Serious Alternative to Media Outreach Conflict Palestine Outreach Middle East Curator's Note Discussions of the United States’ media outreach efforts in the Middle East have focused largely on American inabilities to cope with the world of internat ...

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