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  Cuddly Kittens and Chainsaw Bayonets: Where Do Kids Fit into Today’s Video Game Landscape?

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  Steven Boyer University of Glasgow

  August 31, 2010

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  Cuddly Kittens and Chainsaw Bayonets: Where Do Kids Fit into Today’s Video Game Landscape? video games press conferences demographics Curator's Note At this year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), Microsoft opened their press event by showing off ...
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  Hipster Archaeology

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  Paul Benzon Skidmore College

  August 26, 2012

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  Hipster Archaeology video games Media Nostalgia media archeology media archaeology gaming history atari Curator's Note The Atari video game burial is a central urban legend of video gaming culture. Popular belief has it that in September 1983, faced ...
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  Private Pasts and Future Publics

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  Daniel Mauro University of Texas at Austin

  October 16, 2012

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  Private Pasts and Future Publics The Second Life of Home Movies preservation presentation home movies historiography Curator's Note Recent decades have seen an increased interest in preserving and presenting home movies in a variety of settings, rang ...
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  Netflix and Rethinking Ritualized Consumption of Audiovisual Content

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  Ariane Lebot Tisch School of the Arts, New York University

  December 03, 2013

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  Netflix and Rethinking Ritualized Consumption of Audiovisual Content spectatorship Netflix binge-watching Curator's Note This promotional clip for IFC’s Portlandia testifies to the acknowledgment of binge-watching as a widespread practice, as its com ...
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  Orphan Black and the Performance Text of Attractions

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  R. Colin Tait Texas Christian University

  April 07, 2014

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  Orphan Black and the Performance Text of Attractions Television Acting Tatiana Maslany performance Orphan Black Curator's Note   Quality Television depends on quality acting. Period. Though new titles in TV Studies scholarship- such as Elana Levine a ...
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  Performing Stardom

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  James Harvey-Davitt Anglia Ruskin University

  April 21, 2015

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  Performing Stardom stars spectatorship Movies about Movies intertextuality immersion Alienation Curator's Note A tendency has appeared across several recent films whereby we see stars playing actors who – during overtly performative moments – allude ...
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  JOLT! And The Glitch Aesthetic

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  Rebecca Jackson Johnston Community College

  August 20, 2015

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  JOLT! And The Glitch Aesthetic screens rude aesthetics glitch aesthetics Found Footage Video Aesthetics attention economy Curator's Note Earlier this year a friend recommended Check It Out! With Dr. Steve Brule and I quickly became enthralled with th ...
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  Re: Baseball *Is* All It’s Quacked Up To Be

  I'm interested in the issues

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  Victoria E. Johnson University of California - Irvine

  Wednesday, February 27, 2008 — 8:52 pm

  I'm interested in the issues raised regarding race and the problematic notion of "authenticity." Though not the realm of baseball Doug is focusing on, the MLB Minor Leagues have experienced a resurgence of late, in part, by moving into down ...
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  Re: Steel Magnolia: Nancy Grace and the Epistemology of Place

  I'm fascinated by the

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  Avi Santo Old Dominion University

  Friday, March 30, 2007 — 7:30 pm

  I'm fascinated by the gendered ways in which the personal (tragedy and experience) legitimates Grace's political discourse and branding, providing "intimacy" and "vulnerability" (stereotypically coded as feminine) that both o ...
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  Re: Carl Sagan’s Contact

  I'm intrigued by the way

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  Jeremy Butler University of Alabama

  Thursday, February 21, 2008 — 3:49 am

  I'm intrigued by the way that Dan has recast the notion of guilt to include shame for taking pleasure in the mediocre, for a guilty pleasure that most would think is "pleasure sans guilt." In CONTACT, we have a film that garnered mostly pos ...

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