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  Netflix's Brandless Stand-up Comedy Specials

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  Eric Forthun The University of Texas at Austin

  April 23, 2019

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  economic imperative to appeal to as many audiences, in as many languages and regions, as possible ... and Portuguese specials exist alongside the more prominent English language offerings. This ...
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  “If you feel like screaming, I definitely think that you should”: The House that Jack Built and the continued pervasiveness of the art/ horror debate in contemporary cinema

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  TomWatson Northumbria University

  March 05, 2019

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  has faced accusations of misogyny alongside the sustained use of ‘extreme’ imagery in his later films ... that detail callous violence and trauma (largely in relation to female self-abnegation). Alongside ...
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  Reclaiming the Female Monster in "Possibly in Michigan"

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  Erica Tortolani University of Massachusetts - Amherst

  October 30, 2019

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  Reclaiming the Female Monster in "Possibly in Michigan" horror female directors ... Possibly in Michigan.  “Strangely, she had a way of making the violence seem like it was their idea.”  ... that would follow, Possibly in Michigan upends the images that have been traditionally assigned to ...
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  Digitizing the Tabletop: The Hybridization of Tangible Game Spaces

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  Justin Grandinetti North Carolina State University

  Charlie Ecenbarger Ball State University

  January 18, 2019

  one-of-a-kind completed decks. Fantasy Flight Games promises over 104 quadrillion possible decks, which were ... released alongside a companion app that allows players register their unique deck via QR code, as well as ... allow for balancing mechanisms to offset possible flawed deck composition. These reconstructions of ...
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  Fandom Good Works

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  Tanya D. Zuk, Ph.D. Georgia State University

  August 19, 2019

  promoted them alongside the more traditional telethons happening at the time, and in part because of the ...
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  Fred & Ginger & Emergence

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  Andrew Kemp Georgia State University

  November 15, 2019

  1 comment

  wondered if it could be possible to consider partnerships and media collaborations (and that elusive word, ...
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  The Joke in SNL’s Big Boy Appliances and “Man Food” Marketing

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  Emily Contois The University of Tulsa

  February 13, 2019

  1 comment

  possibilities are part of larger social transformations involving gender, work, home, consumption, and power.     ...
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  Assemble!: Proposing the 'Hero Tableau' in Comics and Superhero Film

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  Jayson Quearry Georgia State University

  April 19, 2019

  comics to fight alongside each other. Even after reading comics for over twenty years, I still find myself ...
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  Pervasive Playing Epcot with Kim Possible

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  Bobby Schweizer Texas Tech University

  January 16, 2019

  Pervasive Playing Epcot with Kim Possible pervasive games Disney epcot mobile devices play ... interaction. However, the pervasive game “Kim Possible World Showcase Adventure” at Epcot in Walt Disney World ... popular cartoon series about a high school secret agent, the Kim Possible World Showcase Adventure used ...
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  Just find a way around it

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  Laura Purcell Virginia Tech

  October 07, 2019

  2 comments

  Tweet: ‘I’m sure Briony had a hand last week,’” said Great British Bake-Off semi-finalist Briony Williams ...

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