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  With Friends Like These: Female Intimacies and Animosities in HBO's Girls

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  Katherine J. Lehman Albright College

  January 27, 2016

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  conflicts and prove, at least on Instagram, that their friendship is solid as ever. Her idealized weekend is ... morning the women silently help Marnie clean up from the party. As they wait for their bus, they begin to ...
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  Harmonies of Discord: Pop Oldies and Horror Trailers

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  Leanne Weston University of Warwick

  May 02, 2016

  8 comments

  (2003), which uses Sonic Youth’s renowned cover of ‘Superstar.’ Its presence marks the beginning of ... a deep sense of unease within the audience, not least because Sonic Youth’s interpretation is so ...
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  “Darkness Falls Across the Land”: Pre-Existing Music and Strange Associations

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  Elizabeth Rosemary Hunt University of Liverpool

  October 28, 2017

  1 comment

  until 0:50, yet this remains ambiguous until 1:20 when the spoken word opening to ‘Thriller’ begins ... the series (as it can only be viewed through their service), or at least  have enticed current ...
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  BLADE and the Foundations of Marvel Superhero's Movie Empire

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  Dan Hassler-Forest Utrecht University

  May 31, 2018

  1 comment

  this journey’s beginning. Perhaps a key reason why  Blade  doesn’t often get the credit it deserves is ... step in the right direction would at least be for Marvel to bring back Blade, and give him the place he ...
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  Re: Is Jennifer Lopez a Simon/Paula hybrid?

  S10 Judges

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  Maria Suzanne Boyd Georgia State University

  Wednesday, June 1, 2011 — 5:56 am

  think there is at least some truth to that considering the way 16 year old Lauren was reduced to tears ... pre-planned. In my opinion it was clear that Lythgoe wanted Lauren and Scotty in the finale from the beginning ...
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  "Manic Pixie Dream Girl" Case Study: Natalie Portman in Garden State

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  Kevin Stoll

  March 22, 2021

  office. The obligatory meet-cute begins with Sam’s laughter at the sight of a German Shepherd humping ... problem, or at least, a happier alternative to the life he had before. But Andrew’s adoption of such ...
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  Re: Politics Is Funny, But Nothing To Laugh At: The Daily Show And Its Limits

  I Was There

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  Kelli Marshall DePaul University

  Friday, August 24, 2012 — 2:36 pm

  it's hard for me to read a piece that disses my man!;)  I'm not sure where to begin, so I'll ... dished out was indeed  substantive  -- at least to those in attendance. Although we struggled financially ...
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  Re: Bayonetta, Femme Disturbance, and AAA Queer Desires

  Some Initial Thoughts on Bayonetta 2

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  John Vanderhoef UCSB

  Thursday, November 13, 2014 — 5:57 pm

  by the relationship with her younger self, to a much more traditional rescue mission, which begins ... to an ancillary role. To the game's credit, at least Bayonetta's attention and desire is ...
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  Re: Teaching Orphan Black

  I’ve been thinking about this

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  Liza-Anne Cabral Georgia State University

  Wednesday, April 15, 2015 — 1:34 pm

  Human though I can't help but feel that, at least for the time being, Orphan Black really is the ... best program to use. I can only begin to imagine the conversations that the series has brought up in ...
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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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