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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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  Behind the Laughter Curtain: Image(in)ing Later Life Marriage through Comedy

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  Melissa Aleman James Madison University, School of Communication Studies

  March 25, 2009

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  such representations to render possible images as obscene, such as older adult sexuality, infidelity, ... and talk about those stories that we imagine the unseen and unspoken possibility for later life ... a narrative space for viewers to imagine, not only a host of possible punch lines, but also the relationship ...
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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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  Interrogating Timelessness: Twin Peaks as "Classic" Television

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  Ross P Garner Cardiff University

  May 26, 2016

  movie Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (David Lynch, 1992). Alongside these, a reading of Twin Peaks as ... Peaks is acknowledged as reconfiguring the aesthetic possibilities of prime time television drama during ...
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  Getting rid of the idea that older adults are television addicts

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  Margot van der Goot Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands

  March 26, 2009

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  Only some people watch for want of something better: as compensation for things that are not possible ... (anymore).   I’m wondering whether older people in different cultures and different countries experience ...
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  Colbert and the Talk Show Games

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  Ethan Thompson Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi

  August 31, 2015

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  segments and I’m not sure were that far removed from “Heatherball.” But it does seems to me that Colbert is ... top-dollar stars the first week or two of the new Colbert show, I’m looking forward to a few more weeks down ...
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  'You Wind Her Up, She Bakes'...The (Increasingly Sparse) Moments Longtime Soaps Fans Still Watch For

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  Sam Ford Massachusetts Institute for Technology

  February 25, 2009

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  fandom generally agree that alongside dwindling ratings has come a deterioration in quality.  However, ...
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  Autism in the Middle

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  Wendy Wagner Johnson & Wales University

  April 08, 2011

  co-exists alongside his brother’s indolence and his sister’s enthusiasm, characteristics that are not ...
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  ‘Amongst Friends Here Tonight’: National Awards for International Television

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  Sam Ward University of Nottingham

  February 26, 2013

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  alongside The Killing II, consolidated the success of the acquisitions bought from Danish public service ...
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  Prelude to a Remix: Damon Lindelof’s Instagram Letter to Watchmen’s Wary Audience

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  Sarah Riddick Worcester Polytechnic Institute

  September 16, 2020

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  again prioritizes audience: “I’m a true fan, too. And I’m not the only one” (4). The two sentences stand ...

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