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  Beginning Again: The Reboot Paradox

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  William Proctor Centre for Research in Media and Cultural Studies, University of Sunderland

  August 08, 2012

  2 comments

  Beginning Again: The Reboot Paradox post-structuralism intertextuality dialogism Blockbuster ... reboot Batman Curator's Note Prior to the release of Batman Begins (2005), co-writer David S. ... rendered past narratives obsolete and void in order to 'begin again' from a ground zero. DC ...
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  Re: Rose-tinted Reboots: Television Remakes and Nostalgia

  Reboots

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  William Proctor Bournemouth University

  Tuesday, March 21, 2017 — 10:27 am

  ignores a pre-established narrative sequence to begin again in an alternate narrative universe. Both ... slate clean and beginning again as if the originals did not exist in the first place. Of course, reboots ... that is what a reboot aims to achieve: a beginning again. ...
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  Re: Lessons from Buckley: Race and the American Right

  one other correction

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  Jeffrey P. Jones Old Dominion University

  Thursday, June 10, 2010 — 3:13 pm

   I guess I should have said, at least Buckley is willing to "engage" the other in ... a public space--to at least let the other person have his or her say.  That is certainly something that is ...
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  Why Moral Philosophy?

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  Brian Price University of Toronto

  January 30, 2023

  instead, are two of the reasons I have devoted myself, for at least fifteen years now, to moral philosophy. ... to think about it” (1981, 10). This implies, for me, at least two things: that in being taught by the ... moral philosophy, at least when it is being written, as “philosophy” implies, as a question. Moral ...
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  Re: Reboots, Remakes, and Adaptations

  Difficulties

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  William Proctor Centre for Research in Media and Cultural Studies, University of Sunderland

  Monday, August 6, 2012 — 11:54 am

  Royale' is both reboot and adaptation. While 'Batman Begins' and Nolan's two sequels do not ... a 'beginning again'). Ditto for 'Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull'- not ... Bayer, for example, equated the Freddy reboot with 'Batman Begins' as did Rupert Wyatt for the ...
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  What's Going On? Cinematic Montage and Televisual Narrative

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  Corey K Creekmur University of Iowa

  March 18, 2019

  2 comments

  description of the beginning of the sequence may suffice. It moves via straight cuts from (1) Riley in London, ... beginning to play the song on her phone to (2) Wolfgang hearing the song begin at a karaoke bar in Berlin to ... song as she showers in Seoul, and then back to Riley.  After Wolfgang begins to sing, a cut to (6) Will ...
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  What’s the Point of a Reboot?, or, Waiting for Godot in a Comic Book Shop

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  Drew Ayers Eastern Washington University

  August 07, 2012

  3 comments

  books as 52 new #1 issues. Beginning in October, Marvel plans to relaunch some of its major properties ... that: “This ain’t a reboot. It’s a new beginning.” Comics fans are notoriously – and justifiably – loath ...
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  The Idea of the End of a Thing

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  Sean O'Sullivan The Ohio State University

  April 26, 2012

  4 comments

  We demand a lot from art. Sometimes we demand a lot at the beginning, as demonstrated by the ... that is interrupted before it can really begin—a stuttering finale that would have been insta-trashed ...
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  Re: The AMPTP vs. The World

  I've been wondering that as

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  Derek Kompare Southern Methodist University

  Wednesday, December 19, 2007 — 5:18 pm

  behind the AMPTP, in public at least, because they're "producers" as well, with their own ... fluid, at least a bit wobbly, the longer this goes on. ...
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  Re: Crooked White House

  Great observation, and I

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  Scott Daniel Boras Minneapolis College

  Wednesday, September 25, 2019 — 9:35 pm

  a seemingly the most distantly removed (and maybe least invested?) member of the family. Crooked House is such ... very least, pick up a copy and start reading! ...

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