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  Re: From Cold War Alcoholism to Post-9/11 Patriotism: The Repurposing of David Bowie's '"Heroes'"

  It may be cynical, but your

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  Zack Stiegler Indiana University of Pennsylvania

  Wednesday, May 4, 2016 — 8:10 pm

  It may be cynical, but your claim is certainly a valid one, Aaron- and there is at least an ounce ...
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  Re: Monster of Monsters: Rendering the Abject in Magic: the Gathering

  Affects of play mechanics

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  Adam Cottrel Georgia State University

  Monday, June 6, 2016 — 2:00 pm

  describe, or at least it isn't so overwhelming to the point where you want to concede immediately. It ...
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  Re: Ritualistic Embodiment in Fever Ray's "When I Grow Up"

  That’s an interesting point

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  Michael Frazer Auburn University

  Tuesday, December 6, 2016 — 8:33 pm

  that is meant for mass viewership, it still subverts (or at least interrogates) the larger Gaze of the ...
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  Re: Films of Panos Cosmatos: Retro as an Aesthetic of Alienation

  Mandy

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  Stephanie A. Graves Georgia State University

  Thursday, April 2, 2020 — 7:51 pm

  Cosmatos's films as inward, rather than outward, because an 80s aesthetic--at least from a contemporary ...
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  'Not enough of him': Technology and Melancholia in 'Be Right Back'

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  Sarah Artt Edinburgh Napier University

  May 06, 2015

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  melancholia Black Mirror Curator's Note In 'Be Right Back', technology begins as comfort. The ...
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  Stranger Things: Channeling Nostalgia/Challenging Nostalgia

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  Virginia Bonner Clayton State University

  September 14, 2016

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  a little empty." Certainly, much of the spectatorial joy, for the GenX set at least, comes from ...
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  The Cave of Forgotten Dreams: Some Belated Thoughts on “Barbenheimer”

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  Dominic Pettman New School University

  October 16, 2023

  course—in whatever film the producers deem appropriate. (Including, background actors.). At the beginning of ... a cudgel to beat down and blackmail the writers and actors back to work for at least a few crumbs of the ... lockdowns, providing at least some sense of shared experience, even as we all binged them in different places ...
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  The Fog: John Carpenter’s ‘Liebestod’

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  George Crosthwait Japanese Avant-garde and Experimental Film Festival

  October 29, 2018

  6 comments

  the beginning of his films. They are calling cards that announce the arrival of a certain cinematic ...
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  The Human Rights of Cylons “as a Race”

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  Michael Peterson University of Wisconsin, Madison

  July 12, 2007

  3 comments

  witnesses his suffering (and “touches” him through the airlock glass), begins a disturbing relationship that ...
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  Our Little Mosque

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  Michele Byers. Saint Mary's University

  April 06, 2009

  3 comments

  rural Canada, it’s a traditional Canadian sitcom. The clip I chose, from the very beginning of season ...

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