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  Yellow Fever: Born Digital on Battlestar Galactica

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  Lisa Nakamura University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign

  July 09, 2007

  10 comments

  Yellow Fever: Born Digital on Battlestar Galactica stereotyping Sci-fi representation race digital Battlestar Galactica Asian Curator's Note Sharon Valerii, played by Korean-Canadian actress Grace Park, is a young, pretty, highly educated Asian woman ...
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  Re: Yellow Fever: Born Digital on Battlestar Galactica

  When I first viewed this

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  Ellen Rigsby Saint Mary’s College of California

  Monday, July 9, 2007 — 2:52 pm

  series, I do think that her suffering is supposed to get the audience to begin to identify with Sharon, ...
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  A New Reconstruction Narrative: Race and BSG

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  Ellen Rigsby Saint Mary’s College of California

  July 10, 2007

  4 comments

  African slaves is sacrificed for the reconstruction of the nation. In this scene Tigh begins explaining ... into danger in the first place. Rather than continuing Bulldog’s story, Tigh begins to tell his own: ...
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  Re: Yellow Fever: Born Digital on Battlestar Galactica

  While I haven't really

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  Tuesday, July 10, 2007 — 9:12 am

  (and perhaps D'Anna's fall begins when she derides the Hybrid?). Perhaps the Hybrid's ...
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  Re: A New Reconstruction Narrative: Race and BSG

  Really interesting clip: I

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  Lisa Nakamura University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign

  Wednesday, July 11, 2007 — 4:43 pm

  immediately in question from the beginning to the end of this episode. BSG is pretty relentlessly serial, ...
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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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  Battlestar Galactica: Subversive Sci-Fi?

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  Roberta Pearson University of Nottingham (UK)

  July 13, 2007

  4 comments

  Battlestar Galactica: Subversive Sci-Fi? terrorism Sci-fi Battlestar Galactica cable original programming ratings Curator's Note Time Magazine has hailed BSG as the best program on television. Critics praise its under-dog protagonists' perspecti ...
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  Re: The Human Rights of Cylons “as a Race”

  Michael, I think the white

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  Ellen Rigsby Saint Mary’s College of California

  Friday, July 13, 2007 — 8:35 pm

  here, is that at least in the American context, the legal concept of personhood is thoroughly tied up in ...
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  Re: Battlestar Galactica: Subversive Sci-Fi?

  That's a really fascinating

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  Roberta Pearson University of Nottingham (UK)

  Sunday, July 15, 2007 — 2:14 pm

  until now at least, congratulated itself on its opposition to the mainstream. But what happens when ... fandom, but do they love Ron Moore and hate the Sci-Fi channel? Somehow I don't think so or at least ...
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  Geek Love: Technical Expertise as a Source of Computer Game Pleasure

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  Judd Ruggill University of Arizona

  July 17, 2007

  6 comments

  Geek Love: Technical Expertise as a Source of Computer Game Pleasure Haloid Monty Oum gaming technical competency mise en scene aesthetics Curator's Note One of the notable not to mention praiseworthy things about Haloid—and indeed Monty Oum’s work i ...

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