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  LEGO’s Transformations and The Creativity vs. Conformity Debate

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  Hye Jin Lee University of Iowa

  June 23, 2014

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  LEGO’s Transformations and The Creativity vs. Conformity Debate licensing LEGO creativity conformity collection Curator's Note So what did happen with LEGO as Prof. Kane asks in this clip from NBC’s Community? First, LEGO has become a multimedia empi ...
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  Close encounters of the open kind

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  Pam Cook University of Southampton, UK

  December 03, 2014

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  Close encounters of the open kind videography queer cinema and television open source publishing open source academia open access Mildred Pierce maternal melodrama literary adaptation fetishism fandom erotic content cinephilia Curator's Note Like man ...
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  Something to Prove?: Contemplating the Fake Geek Academic

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  Suzanne Scott The University of Texas at Austin

  December 04, 2014

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  Something to Prove?: Contemplating the Fake Geek Academic “open source academia” “fake geek girl” GamerGate fandom acafan Curator's Note Fandom has long treated media texts as “open source,” available to be modified and enhanced, and as an aca-fan I’ ...
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  Joan Watson Deserves Better: Audience Reception and the Gender Politics of TV Sidekickdom

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  Natasha Patterson Simon Fraser Unversity

  December 18, 2014

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  Joan Watson Deserves Better: Audience Reception and the Gender Politics of TV Sidekickdom TV sidekicks Joan Watson gender politics Elementary Audience reception Curator's Note After Elementary ’s strong and critically well-received first season, Dr. ...
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  Commodity as a Political Pressure Valve in “Fifteen Million Merits”

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  Michael Frazer Auburn University

  May 04, 2015

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  Commodity as a Political Pressure Valve in “Fifteen Million Merits” screen Fifteen Million Merits commodity Black Mirror biopolitics Curator's Note In “Fifteen Million Merits,” citizenship correlates to viewership: screens are ubiquitous. Those who b ...
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  Non-Compliance: Bitch Planet and Feminist Exploitation

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  Alicia Kozma University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

  November 05, 2015

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  Non-Compliance: Bitch Planet and Feminist Exploitation women in prison films feminism exploitation comic books Curator's Note Insubordination. Seduction and Disappointment. Emotional Manipulation. Patrilineal Dishonor. Disrespect. Unpermitted Birth. ...
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  Austerity Lustre: The Fight in Creed

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  Sean Redmond Deakin University

  April 22, 2016

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  Austerity Lustre: The Fight in Creed the ghetto legacy austerity Curator's Note He just fights all the time Creed speaks to the post GFC crisis and the politics of austerity. Legacy in the film isn’t simply patriarchal, familial, nor a film franchise ...
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  “If I fight, you fight”: Sly Stallone and the aged action star’s triumphant submission in Creed

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  Glen Donnar RMIT University

  April 18, 2016

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  “If I fight, you fight”: Sly Stallone and the aged action star’s triumphant submission in Creed Sylvester Stallone Rocky masculinity boxing film ageing action stardom 80s action Curator's Note The training montage is a genre staple of the boxing film ...
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  Satanic Panic at Sleepaway Camp: Freeform's Dead of Summer

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  Dana Och University of Pittsburgh

  November 30, 2016

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  Satanic Panic at Sleepaway Camp: Freeform's Dead of Summer teen tv Satanic Panic music Media and Occult Freeform ABC Family Curator's Note The resurgence of the Satanic Panic in media objects in 2016, whether in novels like Girls on Fire and My ...
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  Baseball *Is* All It’s Quacked Up To Be

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  Doug Battema Western New England University

  February 27, 2008

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  Baseball *Is* All It’s Quacked Up To Be 1950s amateurs Baseball branding discourse documentaries fandom Ken Burns Madiso Mallards marketing pro-am promos regionalism sports Curator's Note Inning Seven of Ken Burns’ “Baseball” argues that major socioe ...

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