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  The Grain of Glee

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  Karen Tongson University of Southern California

  April 05, 2010

  7 comments

  thus far, I can't help but go back to the very beginning: to the pilot episode’s closing number. ...
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  The Media Hoax Phenomenon

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  Laurel Ahnert Georgia State University

  January 27, 2014

  5 comments

  phenomenon. Why do we have such an appetite for these fake stories to begin with? The fake story has to be ...
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  What kind of "South" rises from the (walking) dead?

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  Justin Owen Rawlins The University of Tulsa

  March 06, 2012

  4 comments

  What kind of "South" rises from the (walking) dead? The Walking Dead Race/Ethnicity American South Curator's Note One of the most compelling elements of a zombie-centric narrative is the opportunity it affords producers to imagine social, i ...
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  Falling Man and Mad Men (1:54)

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  Gary Edgerton Old Dominion University

  April 20, 2009

  15 comments

  is the depiction of the male protagonist falling from the top of a skyscraper. The action begins as ... begins to implode, almost melting. A small rotating fan spins in an open window, but we never see how the ...
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  Vídeo nas Aldeias: Frontiers

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  Ernesto Ignacio de Carvalho New York University

  May 08, 2009

  9 comments

  same subjects that now find ways to respond, to answer back, and begin to unravel the stereotyped image ... drawn by colonialism and genocide.   FIRST CLIP: COLLAGE 1. Beginning of " Handling the Camera ...
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  Re: The Flourish

  re: rules

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  Simon Ferrari Georgia Institute of Technology

  Tuesday, December 7, 2010 — 6:49 am

  a series of essays beginning with the most famous "Rape In Cyberspace" piece, is still something ... one of my goals in my master's thesis to begin unravelling them (for instance, using Dibbell and ...
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  Black Women as Godfathers and Gangstas: Set It Off's Divergence from the New Black Aesthetic

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  Philana Payton University of California, Los Angeles

  November 09, 2020

  must still resort to a shared decision/necessity to begin robbing banks. Also, Gray’s use of the ... Hood, Cleo has normalized and found solace in her socio-economic circumstances. At the beginning of the ...
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  “I know my birth story”: Mediated Adoption Trauma and Grief in NBC’s This is Us

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  Nathan Rossi The University of Texas at Austin

  August 26, 2021

  learning about his birth mother’s life, Randall begins to be able to own his adoption narrative from his ... being allowed to grieve, then, Randall can begin to make further meaning of the pain that stems from his ...
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  That Joker on TV

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  Michael Mazzacane UCLA, Cinema & Media Studies

  February 15, 2022

  A way to begin historically grounding the Joker is to view him as an inherently satiric vessel. ... Satirical discourse begins to lock a Joker into a specific time and place as satire exists as an address ...
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  Quasi-Hyperpersonal Communication and Deception in Love is Blind

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  Joshua P. Sills Texas Tech University

  October 11, 2024

  interactions, one partner begins to form powerful emotional attachment, an extreme reaction, based on limited ... the other party kept private (Sherman, 2001). Modern relationships have the potential to begin in ...

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