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  The Essence of a Women's Prison: Where Orange Is the New Black Falls Short

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  Daisy Ball Framingham State University

  March 14, 2014

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  industrial complex,” and I’m afraid it misses that chance. Because OITNB is based on Piper Kerman’s memoir, ... entry. Each semester, I bring university students into prison, where they study sociology alongside ...
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  Pixar's RenderMan and Proprietary Technology in CGI Animation

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  Alla Gadassik Emily Carr University of Art + Design

  April 22, 2014

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  alongside Pixar since the mid-1980s, designed to efficiently compute which parts of an animated scene need ... has not only made Pixar’s animated films technically possible, it also, in part, defined the company’s ...
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  Style and Substance in Veronica Mars

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  Amanda Keeler Marquette University

  June 04, 2014

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  extended pilot features some striking visual and auditory elements that highlight the possibilities for ... establishing shot of the Camelot Motel, tracking past a couple in one of the rooms, and then alongside a man as ...
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  Nathan for You and Cable's Contested Masculinities

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  Nick Marx Colorado State University

  August 21, 2014

  program, alongside newer Comedy Central fare like Kroll Show and Review, revels in the contested ... masculinities made possible by contemporary cable’s hyper-competitive targeting of young male audiences. This ...
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  Extreme Action at the Limits of Endurance

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  Adam Cottrel Georgia State University

  May 09, 2014

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  or not, the goal is universally to seek out what is possible, to question limitations, and, ... for the heat; I’ve trained for the roads; but I’m just waiting to find out what the third thing is ... embrace extreme difficulty, to willingly seek out what is possible, to claim new potential where new ...
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  Stripped to the Bone

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  Ramzi Fawaz University of Wisconsin-Madison

  February 25, 2014

  narrative, Wojnarowicz claims, “I’m a prisoner of language that doesn’t have a letter or a sign or gesture ... that approximates what I’m sensing.” Wojnarowicz’s statement speaks to the broader struggle of queer ...
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  Queer Recalibration

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  Quinn Miller University of Oregon

  February 24, 2014

  unintelligibility this Nick at Nite promo showcases. I’m a member of the “ TV generation ” that the network ... coextensive. Yet I’m still surprised by just how perceptively the network’s promotional material from the early ...
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  The Kids Are Alright (And So Are the Mothers)

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  Melis Behlil Kadir Has University

  March 04, 2014

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  further strengthened by various graffiti: “Don’t worry mom, I’m not in the front, we’re all walking ...
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  Of Catfish and Cod

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  Elizabeth Lenaghan Northwestern University

  January 31, 2014

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  and Angela alongside their respective portraits that I find most compelling. While both Nev and his ...
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  The Dead Can Twitter: Tragedy, Comedy, and False Celebrity Death Reports

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  Charlotte Howell University of Texas at Austin

  January 29, 2014

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  it is ground in the possibility of tragedy: Jeff Goldblum confronting his own mortality.   ...

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