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  The Body That Can't Win

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  Matt Thomas University of Iowa

  August 13, 2010

  5 comments

  concern will be for Sly’s aging physique; the veins bulge so alarmingly in his shoulders and neck we begin ... to imagine eventual Cronenbergian implosions. At the very least, a loved one should tell him to ease ...
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  Re: Plurimediality and the Serial Figure

  or just a break in continuity?

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  Shane Denson Stanford University

  Tuesday, December 13, 2011 — 11:25 am

  the beginning of a particular serial continuity on film--i.e. the beginning of Batman's ... as to claim that this is the beginning of the end of the serial figure. The branchings, remediations, ...
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  The Avengers and the Evolution of the Multi-Film Franchise

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  Jim Mroczkowski iFanboy.com

  May 07, 2012

  6 comments

  least four other franchises. It is simultaneously the first film in a series and the sequel to five ... alters, and to some extent potentially damages, each individual film's ability to legitimately begin ...
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  "Do Season Finales Even Matter Anymore?" or "Season Finale, Schmeason Finale. I Don’t Even Know When It’s On!"

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  Kelly Kessler DePaul University

  May 16, 2011

  11 comments

  forward to the season finale, but to me, at least, the experience lacks the pop it had in the old ... standard season.   In 2011, I find it difficult to keep track of shows’ beginnings and endings without the ...
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  Re: Guilt by Association: The Grammys, The Recording Industry, and Representing Popular Music Culture

  Excellent Beginning to the Week

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  John Vanderhoef UCSB

  Tuesday, September 13, 2011 — 8:55 pm

  niche but equally worthy of praise. I especially enjoy the way you begin to construct the hierarchy of ... sub-genres, I can only agree it’s an unrealistic desire, at least when it comes to what’s conceivable for ...
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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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  Diversity of Film Festivals in East Asia: Red Carpets and Parades

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  Dina Iordanova and Ruby Cheung University of St Andrews

  January 24, 2011

  many younger ones have come into being in the 1990s and 2000s; at least four new festivals came into ... intra-Asia transactions that successfully bracket out Hollywood. The West is only just beginning to wake up ...
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  Re: Lost as TV3

  Roberta quotes the narrator

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  Julian Stringer University of Nottingham

  Tuesday, February 12, 2008 — 2:49 am

  very beginning Lost has tried to do two things at once. On the one hand, it has taken full advantage of ... still be read – rhetorically at least – as not just for the fans. Any television narrative will end at ...
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  Bread and Circuses: Panem as Dystopian Future or Present?

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  Benjamin Thevenin Brigham Young University

  March 28, 2012

  7 comments

  triangle. And despite its (at least, implicit) critique of capitalism, the franchise will undoubtedly profit ... provides an opportunity for young people to begin thinking and talking about political power, economic ...
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  Experiment as Plot

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  Sarah O'Brien Georgia Institute of Technology

  September 10, 2013

  3 comments

  really an experiment from the beginning,” Bryan Cranston reflected in the debut episode of “The Writers’ ... connections (at least for me—I’m a humanities scholar). Not so in the world of “Breaking Bad.” What I find so ...

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