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  “Whatever's Happening, It’s Spreading”: The Stranger Things Legal Paratext

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  Andrew Kemp Georgia State University

  November 03, 2017

  role (“I don’t want you to think I’m a total wastoid…”) and threats about the company’s legal team ... object for our heavily-surveilled media landscape. Netflix surely considered the possibility that the ... participant alongside its audience in cultivating the show’s cultural impact. The Stranger Things ...
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  Between the Lines: Finding Feminist Possibility Spaces in Kathy Rain: A Detective is Born

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  Andrea Braithwaite University of Ontario Institute of Technology

  September 07, 2017

  Between the Lines: Finding Feminist Possibility Spaces in Kathy Rain: A Detective is Born ... scholars call the “possibility space” – what a game makes possible, and impossible, through its design. For ... leave the biker bar, and we can’t say something conciliatory in response.It seems like less is possible ...
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  Closure and Continuation in the Gilmore Girls Reboot

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  Martin Zeller-Jacques Queen Margaret University

  March 23, 2017

  “Yeah?” “I’m pregnant.” This ending substitutes a grand authorial gesture for narrative closure. Palladino ... finishes the series on her own terms, yet also holds out the possibility of further stories of a new ...
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  The Handmaid's Tale as historical fiction

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  Rosemary Erickson Johnsen Governors State University

  April 22, 2017

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  true-crime case, Alias Grace (1996), alongside HT suggests the continuity between Atwood's historical ...
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  When the Sacred is for Sale

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  Madhuri Karak

  November 07, 2017

  conflict, these are simply objects for sale. Commercialization of tribal culture alongside the dispossession ...
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  When news and drama compete for time: The Handmaid’s Tale’s release

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  Sarah Arnold Maynooth University

  April 24, 2017

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  will be possible to watch it in many different ways.  Caution was made against binge-watching by The ...
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  “You Feel It.” True Crime’s Advantage in Dramatization

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  Leslie Rowen Bellarmine University

  February 16, 2017

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  office after a long day in court. “I’m not a public personality,” she exclaims, revealing an emotionality ...
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  Romero's Genius

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  Jennifer Van Houdt University of Washington

  October 23, 2017

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  (to the background chorus of “I’m a man,” nonetheless). Now, we could chalk up these coincidences of ...
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  Robert Durst: A True Crime Bad Guy

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  Staci Stutsman Syracuse University

  February 13, 2017

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  criminals alongside experts, piquing viewers’ suspicion of their testimony. This, coupled with the fact that ...
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  Eating Settler-Colonialism: A meditation

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  Remy Yi Siang Low University of Sydney

  November 10, 2017

  expectant, salivating mouth.   Breathing in, I consider the people that have made this meal possible ... since forever.   Breathing in, I consider the non-human others that have made this meal possible.   This ...

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