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  Otherworldly Comedic Legacies, or; Legends Waiting in the Wings

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  Meredith Bak Rutgers University-Camden

  March 25, 2025

  Repeated shots of the star-studded studio audience throughout the evening have hinted at possibilities ... articulating a multi-generational comedic legacy.[2]Instead, Streep strode onstage announcing “I’m here, I’m ... here, I’m here,” blaming her tardiness on bathroom troubles. Neither McKinnon’s contemporary, nor ...
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  Jim Jarmusch as (Instagram) Collage Artist

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  Jennifer O'Meara Trinity College Dubliin

  February 05, 2025

  iconography of his films and his collage work. Alongside images of the kinds of urban façades and graphically ... a script, making a piece of music, or shooting a film, I’m always drawn toward variations and repetitions. ... I always start by gathering materials for quite a long time that relate to some idea that I’m starting to ...
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  Try This at Home

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  Alessandra Raengo Georgia State University

  March 04, 2025

  imported from the Negro Leagues) alongside an ad for a refrigerator, door wide open, featuring “adoring ... of his sensibility alongside his field-defining work.  Said more directly, at stake, is the practice ...
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  TikTok Wes (AI)nderson

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  Cáit Murphy Trinity College Dublin

  February 04, 2025

  “Wes Anderson style” show AI-generated images alongside real still images from his films. And because ...
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  Adolescence (2025) and the Social Realist Registration of Fascism

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  Oliver Dixon The University of Cambridge

  September 09, 2025

  politics proper, in which it is possible to project a range of evils and subject positions (Keir Starmer ... responsibly devoted to being troubled. These exchanges demonstrate that the possibilities of realist ... of possibility for proto-fascist young men, would undermine the very mode of address and formal ...
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  High Anxiety: Or, How Shiva Baby Approaches Horror

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  Joseph Ozias Central Methodist University

  September 15, 2025

  the movie are the family’s questions alongside their dismissing of her love of a woman. Horror, then, ... accepting that love that scares Danielle, alongside being “found out.” But, importantly, the “being found ...
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  The Personal Is Political: Korean Queer Animation Online, From Flash To Youtube

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  Grace Han Stanford University

  October 31, 2025

  visibly queer Mizi and Sua, alongside their other friends. With signboards, crowdshots, and teasers ... alongside K-Pop, have exploded in international growth and outreach between 2010 to 2020, leading beyond ...
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  Track 25: The Living Room Studio- a slow archive of black study: the mixtape

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  djones Georgia State University

  April 04, 2025

  me as Freddy cutting through from the image. It could be nail polish or BBQ sauce. I’m not investing ...
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  Sounding the Alarm: Canadian Academics, American Reality TV Labor, and Constrained Participation

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  Wendy Peters Nipissing University

  November 17, 2025

  eighteen-hour drive north of Atlanta, Georgia. I had been excited by the possibility of travelling to Atlanta, ... current U.S. administration” were cautioned explicitly, alongside trans academics and those “whose travel ... and thus should have access to employee protections, including minimum wage and the possibility of ...
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  The Empty Panopticon: Surveillance and Parrhesia in Iranian Cinema

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  Parsa Naji Georgia State University

  February 19, 2025

  framework of this discussion, two possible explanations can be suggested. First is the persistence of ... panopticon. However, there is also a second possible reason for this decline in strict censorship: perhaps ... possibility that the supposedly rigid and fearsome government censorship system may have been nothing more ...

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