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  Re: What’s the Point of a Reboot?, or, Waiting for Godot in a Comic Book Shop

  Comic Book Reboots Pt 1

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

  Tuesday, August 7, 2012 — 8:26 am

  it all begins. The New 52 also declared it wasn't a reboot- and, in some instances, it ... successful reboot as it actually is a reboot- wiping Superman's history off the map and 'beginning ...
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  Re: What’s the Point of a Reboot?, or, Waiting for Godot in a Comic Book Shop

  Comic Book Reboots Pt 2

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

  Tuesday, August 7, 2012 — 12:36 pm

  In comic books, which is where the term reboot comes from, at least in aesthetics, the reboot ... collapses history and begins again. David S Goyer (co-writer of Batman Begins etc) initiated its entrance ... into the filmic world, but it is intersting and illuminating what he had to say pre-Batman Begins ...
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  Re: What’s the Point of a Reboot?, or, Waiting for Godot in a Comic Book Shop

  Slipperiness of Terms

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  Drew Ayers Eastern Washington University

  Tuesday, August 7, 2012 — 1:58 pm

  placate longtime readers while persuading new readers that they won't be lost if they begin with ...
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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

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  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: Reboots, Remakes, and Adaptations

  Burton's Bat and Adam West

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  Ian Peters University of North Georgia

  Wednesday, August 8, 2012 — 5:09 pm

  While it is not necessarily done to wipe the slate clean as your post argues on Batman Begins in ...
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  Re: Beginning Again: The Reboot Paradox

  Cultural Capital

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

  Sunday, August 12, 2012 — 8:54 am

  a declaration of intent. Batman Begins has built into it through paratexts etc a message that seems to say, ...
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  “After 4 Years of a Celebrity President,” is Romney the Anti-Celebrity Candidate?

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  Sue Collins Michigan Technological University

  August 13, 2012

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  “After 4 Years of a Celebrity President,” is Romney the Anti-Celebrity Candidate? popular culture politics Political Polarization political advertising celebrity Curator's Note Last April, Super PAC American Crossroads revived the McCain campaign’s a ...
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  Re: “After 4 Years of a Celebrity President,” is Romney the Anti-Celebrity Candidate?

  The Cult of (Socialist?) Celebrity

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  Justin Owen Rawlins and Zenia Kish The University of Tulsa

  Saturday, August 18, 2012 — 10:30 pm

  least able to empathize with them, we suppose) and yet is exceptional and capable of being their leader. ...
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  From Bartlet to Knope: Politics and instructional television

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  Rossend Sanchez-Baro Universitat Pompeu Fabra

  August 20, 2012

  10 comments

  From Bartlet to Knope: Politics and instructional television The West Wing Politics as Entertainment Leslie Knope Jed Bartlet instructional TV Curator's Note The West Wing seems to be a unique example in recent American television. Despite its long t ...
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  "Game Change" and "Showgirls": Politics as Camp

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  Michael Barthel University of Washington

  August 21, 2012

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  "Game Change" and "Showgirls": Politics as Camp Sarah Palin Politics as Entertainment camp Curator's Note Game Change told a familiar story: a big fish in a small pond finds the spotlight and, after proper training, overtakes the ...

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