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  Re: The Following Post Has Been Approved for All Audiences

  On trailers

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  Michael S. Duffy Department of Electronic Media and Film, Towson University

  Wednesday, June 15, 2011 — 7:12 pm

  posters.  They just don't seem to be as creative or humble as they once were, at least those generating ...
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  Re: Does the Costume Make the Superhero?

  What about Batman?

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  Katheryn Wright Champlain College

  Wednesday, June 15, 2011 — 11:54 pm

  audience is looking through the bat suit in Batman Begins or The Dark Knight, while they are quite ...
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  The X-Men are Army Strong: Military Marketing and the Summer Movie Theater

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  Tanine Allison ACLS New Faculty Fellow in Film and Media Studies, Emory University

  June 16, 2011

  2 comments

  The X-Men are Army Strong: Military Marketing and the Summer Movie Theater X-men The Contemporary Summer Blockbuster science fiction military recruitment Curator's Note War films have only rarely been part of the summer movie lineup, yet summer is wh ...
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  Re: The X-Men are Army Strong: Military Marketing and the Summer Movie Theater

  Absolutely...

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  Tanine Allison ACLS New Faculty Fellow in Film and Media Studies, Emory University

  Friday, June 17, 2011 — 12:08 am

  a uniform" motto with the X-Men film to be bizarre, to say the least, particularly with the gay-rights ...
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  Daily Double-Take: the Friendly "Face" of AI

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  Christine Mitchell McGill University

  June 20, 2011

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  Daily Double-Take: the Friendly "Face" of AI Artificial Intelligence IBM Jeopardy posthuman TTS science & technology Watson Curator's Note Talk of machine intelligence follows a familiar, adversarial script, rehashing arguments over hum ...
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  Re: Daily Double-Take: the Friendly "Face" of AI

  Watson

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  Lisa Swanstrom Florida Atlantic University

  Tuesday, June 21, 2011 — 1:08 am

  game of chess?"  His odd mechanical voice is, at least initially, the most ethical voice in the ... film. Thirdly (and finally, at least for now!), don't you find it interesting that game play has ...
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  It's Alive!!!

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  Rebecca Housel Wiley-Blackwell

  June 21, 2011

  2 comments

  singularity, though if humanity does reach an event horizon, no one can even begin to realistically predict the ...
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  Re: Daily Double-Take: the Friendly "Face" of AI

  The Singularity IS Near...

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  Rebecca Housel Wiley-Blackwell

  Tuesday, June 21, 2011 — 7:15 pm

  outmoded, and rather quickly. Watson is just the beginning....   Good piece! ...
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  Bodies in Code, and in the Cultural Imaginary

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  Lauren Klein The Graduate Center and Macaulay Honors College, CUNY

  June 23, 2011

  2 comments

  the center of the screen. As the videos begin to spin in unison, the viewer comes to perceive the ...
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  Why Scientists Are Under Attack

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  Connie St Louis City University , London

  June 23, 2011

  1 comment

  professional diggers and reporters. When they begin their careers they want to be torch bearers for science, ...

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