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  Re: Hipster Archaeology

  Scale of Archive, Scale of Access

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  Paul Benzon Skidmore College

  Tuesday, August 28, 2012 — 2:12 am

  reach, finite in number but massive enough to dwarf (or at least be daunting to) human comprehension-- ...
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  Re: Hipster Archaeology

  so bad it's bad, maybe?

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  Michael D Dwyer Arcadia University

  Tuesday, August 28, 2012 — 3:56 pm

  video's narrative begins the "so bad it's good" factor is failing to pay off for them. So ...
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  The Increasing Instant Nostalgia in Mediated Sports

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  Ryan Lizardi SUNY Polytechnic Institute

  August 29, 2012

  4 comments

  The Increasing Instant Nostalgia in Mediated Sports Super Bowl Olympics Michael Phelps Media Nostalgia Curator's Note The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) reboot hit theaters just 10 years after its original, and only 5 yeas after the last series installmen ...
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  Re: The Increasing Instant Nostalgia in Mediated Sports

  Best Week Ever

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  Matthew Stoddard University of Minnesota

  Wednesday, August 29, 2012 — 8:48 pm

  atrophy of historicity. I'm interested in why it is that, at least in the U.S., sports are such ...
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  Raphael Saadiq's Soul Memories

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  Michael D Dwyer Arcadia University

  August 30, 2012

  7 comments

  Raphael Saadiq's Soul Memories soul Raphael Saadiq pop music nostalgia memory Media Nostalgia Curator's Note To understand the relationship between popular media and nostalgia, we first need to understand this: nostalgia isn't about the pas ...
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  Re: Raphael Saadiq's Soul Memories

  representation vs response

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  Michael D Dwyer Arcadia University

  Thursday, August 30, 2012 — 5:10 am

  or inherently "nostalgic," at least not in how I want to use the term.  I think it's ...
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  Re: Raphael Saadiq's Soul Memories

  Retro Materiality

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  Paul Benzon Skidmore College

  Friday, August 31, 2012 — 8:17 pm

  Matthew's concept of a material substrate of nostalgia, and it would seem to tie together (at least) two ... rooted (at least for the filmmakers) in the materialities of production, the pastness of celluloid, that ...
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  Hip-hopsploitation: Representing 1980s Hip-hop in Wild Style and Beat Street

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  Aaron Dickinson Sachs Saint Mary's College of California

  September 03, 2012

  12 comments

  Hip-hopsploitation: Representing 1980s Hip-hop in Wild Style and Beat Street Wild Style racial politics Race/Ethnicity hip-hopsploitation Hip-Hop Cinema hip-hop cinema Beat Street 1980s Curator's Note If such a thing as “hip-hop cinema” exists, it wa ...
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  Re: Hip-hopsploitation: Representing 1980s Hip-hop in Wild Style and Beat Street

  Hip Hop Commodified

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  Roger Almendarez Northwestern University

  Tuesday, September 4, 2012 — 3:21 am

  different from current mainstream perceptions of hip hop. I think you begin the week well by asking both ...
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  Kung Fu and Cowboys: Hip Hop Cinema in the 1970s?

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  Cutler Edwards UC San Diego

  September 05, 2012

  2 comments

  Kung Fu and Cowboys: Hip Hop Cinema in the 1970s? youth culture transnational radicalism race popular culture multiracial kung fu hip hop cowboy colonialism breaking breakdance b-boy 1970s Curator's Note We should consider popular 1970s films as pref ...

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