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  Re: Reaching out: Milch’s teaching, voice, genius.

  Dialogue, realism, audience

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  Sean O'Sullivan The Ohio State University

  Tuesday, April 24, 2012 — 1:24 am

  "bonding process" helpfully show just how creators think--or at least how this creator thinks--about ...
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  It's almost Shakespearean

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  Erika Johnson-Lewis St. Petersburg College

  April 24, 2012

  begins with with Al Swearengen, sweaty and bleeding, knife in hand, exclaiming, “Welcome to fucking ... The last section begins with often humorous--if at times ridiculous--speeches, and finally moves to ... show talk funny? Does it somehow point to television, or at least television created by someone who has ...
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  David Milch’s “connecting interior doors”: Private Space and Commonplace, Beginnings and Ends

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  Martin Zirulnik UCLA

  April 25, 2012

  2 comments

  David Milch’s “connecting interior doors”: Private Space and Commonplace, Beginnings and Ends ... unfamiliar homes as well.  Luck can begin, just as Deadwood could, only as soon as a principal actor in the ...
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  Re: Louie's "God" As Cathartic Television

  Religious Pedagogy, Hollywood Gore

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  Jeremy Tipton University of Southern California

  Wednesday, April 25, 2012 — 6:30 am

  gory, shame provoking retellings of Jesus’ crucifixion at least once annually. In my church, the ... experienced as a 10-year-old: “I, at least, alternated between sad compassion for Jesus and sickened ...
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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 Idea of the End of a Thing

  Moods and Endings

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  Jason Jacobs University of Queensland

  Thursday, April 26, 2012 — 11:58 pm

  hospitable to endings (or beginnings) in the way that films and novels tend to be? A week ago I read Julian ...
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  Re: The Idea of the End of a Thing

  Endings

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  David Thorburn MIT

  Saturday, April 28, 2012 — 1:15 am

  center are in some sense completed or at least thoroughly developed.  Ditto for the Dickens. But think of ...
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  Re: The Idea of the End of a Thing

  Coming to a stop

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  Sean O'Sullivan The Ohio State University

  Sunday, April 29, 2012 — 11:56 pm

  of terminology, category, and effect.  In the clip, Milch touches on at least three conditions that ...
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  Am I Ugly?: Female Beauty, Digital Media, and the True Me

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  Dara Persis Murray Manhattanville College

  April 30, 2012

  6 comments

  Am I Ugly?: Female Beauty, Digital Media, and the True Me postfeminism Digital Media and the Autobiographical Impulse beauty Curator's Note "Am I Ugly?" is a personal, self-conscious question often asked among friends and family. It is also ...
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  Re: David Milch’s “connecting interior doors”: Private Space and Commonplace, Beginnings and Ends

  illusion of private control

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  Martin Zirulnik UCLA

  Tuesday, May 1, 2012 — 12:53 am

  beginning of  Luck  seems to suggest that real—if unimaginable—personal space existed before the beginning ...

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