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  Katarina Löfström’s ”High Noon”: The Materiality of a Medium

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  Anna Orrghen Södertörn University College– Sweden

  November 08, 2007

  it. But how far is it possible to focus a picture before it transforms into an abstract pattern? And ... how many times is it possible to enlarge an image before it turns into a completely new image? These ... and it disappears. In other words: is it possible to get too close? ...
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  'Faceshopping' (2018) with Sophie Xeon/SOPHIE

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  Joe Jackson SOAS University of London

  May 21, 2019

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  “I’m real when I shop my face” embrace unsavoury aspects of self-love which are deemed corrosive ...
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  Burgundy Histories? WEWS-TV “Catch 5!” 1970s promo

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  Mark Williams Dartmouth College

  February 26, 2008

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  particular fosters an opening of reading possibilities, I want to encourage more possibilities than camp ... Burgundy histories?- that deploy camp to new advantage. Or might such projects conflict with a possible ...
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  41 Shots

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  Dan Leopard St. Mary’s College of California

  March 15, 2007

  Ernest Larsen suggests that the possibilities of television as a cultural form are hardly exhausted by ...
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  What Role for Government TV in Community Life?

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  Jeffrey P. Jones Old Dominion University

  February 29, 2008

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  seems ever more pressing—is it possible for citizens to know their local community through television? ...
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  You Can’t Conjure as a Coven of One

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  Daren Fowler Georgia State University

  April 05, 2017

  the self beyond the limits of expectations to form new and hard-fought possibilities. But as McCraney ...
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  “Not Only Human”- an X-Files vid by Killa and Laura Shapiro

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  Tisha Turk Grinnell College

  January 29, 2008

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  “Not Only Human”- an X-Files vid by Killa and Laura Shapiro X-Files fandom fan vids editing affect aesthetics Curator's Note One of the most common subgenres of vid is the character study, in which vidders illuminate characters’ emotions or motivatio ...
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  Rudolphe Töpffer's Graphic Novels: A Rhetorical Study of Hegel’s Aesthetics of Physiognomy

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  Sergio Figueiredo Kennesaw State University

  January 21, 2016

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  Rudolphe Töpffer's Graphic Novels: A Rhetorical Study of Hegel’s Aesthetics of Physiognomy aesthetics graphic novels hegel media arts philosophy Philosophy in/as/of Media Curator's Note I recently completed a book-length translation of Rudolphe ...
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  Harmonies of Discord: Pop Oldies and Horror Trailers

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  Leanne Weston University of Warwick

  May 02, 2016

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  Harmonies of Discord: Pop Oldies and Horror Trailers soundtrack pop songs nostalgia horror cinema aesthetics Curator's Note The use of oldies and covers of oldies in trailers is not a new phenomenon. However, the harmonious discord at work when oldie ...
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  Curtain: Queer Video Games, Identity, and Realism

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  Diana Pozo UC Santa Barbara

  November 11, 2014

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  Curtain: Queer Video Games, Identity, and Realism video games video game studies trauma small games realism queerness and games conference queer lives queer games movement queer qgcon LGBTQ Indie Game Developers indie identity performance glitch aesthetic ...