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Execute Minute 47: On Star Wars Wars

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December 14, 2015

displays the brightest layer for each pixel. It begins with six simultaneous opening text crawls, ... 132.8 minutes, so the 47th minute comes very near the beginning of the average Star Wars film’s second ...

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“I wanna do a lot of things that don’t make sense”: Intimate Knowledge and Erotic Power

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Anna Lee Swan University of Washington

March 24, 2017

us “to be responsible to ourselves in the deepest sense. For as we begin to recognize our deepest ... feelings, we begin to give up, of necessity, being satisfied with suffering and self-negation” (58). In this ...

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"Throw Yourself Into the Barbs": Morality, Pixelation and Spatial Legibility in Alexander Ocias's Loved

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Whitney Pow Northwestern University

May 12, 2017

digital aesthetics Curator's Note The video game Loved by Alexander Ocias begins with white text on ... begins to question the text as it asks more and more of her: “Throw yourself into the barbs,” it orders, ...

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Re: Reading Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Otherwise: A Reparative Reading on the Art of Enacting Middle

Middle: Deleuze and Guattariand John Ricco

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Robert Summers Otis College of Art

Sunday, February 6, 2011 — 5:07 am

John writes, ‘The middle: the only place to begin [and not just producing, beginning, but rather ...

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Re: Reboots, Remakes, and Adaptations

Rebooting Single Film Franchises - Business vs. Art

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Ian Peters University of North Georgia

Monday, August 6, 2012 — 1:08 pm

that a reboot endeavors to "begin again," but in cases such as Total Recall the film itself ... pointed out, a reboot attempts to "begin a franchise anew." However, I do not necessarily think ...

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Re: Reboots, Remakes, and Adaptations

Defining a Reboot in Relation to a Franchise?

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Ian Peters University of North Georgia

Monday, August 6, 2012 — 3:16 pm

these versions start the Batman narrative over from the beginning onscreen and add to the overall ... to keep applying it historically. But as our conversation has continued, I am beginning to wonder if ...

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Re: What’s the Point of a Reboot?, or, Waiting for Godot in a Comic Book Shop

Comic Book Reboots Pt 1

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William Proctor Centre for Research in Media and Cultural Studies, University of Sunderland

Tuesday, August 7, 2012 — 8:26 am

it all begins. The New 52 also declared it wasn't a reboot- and, in some instances, it ... successful reboot as it actually is a reboot- wiping Superman's history off the map and 'beginning ...

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Re: Double Double Miley Trouble: Notes Toward a Queer Aesthet(h)ics of Duplicity

re: Appropriate Queering

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Zachary Harvat The Ohio State University

Monday, May 19, 2014 — 11:00 pm

a complexity that my post tomorrow attempts to begin working through (because it is of course too complicated ... re: Ryan's original post. This is an excellent way to begin thinking through Miley's queer ...

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Re: “Barack OBollywood”: Afro-Asian Connections on the Viral Video Trail