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  Re: Food Porn on Tumblr: A Mediated Cornucopia of Fantasies, Desires, and Excesses

  Desire, Excess, and Objectification

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  Aaron Dickinson Sachs Saint Mary's College of California

  Wednesday, October 16, 2013 — 12:23 am

  the cultural scripts of what is desirable sex or food. In the end, we have two possible route for ...
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  Re: Double Double Miley Trouble: Notes Toward a Queer Aesthet(h)ics of Duplicity

  Appropriate Queering?

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  Chris Zivalich Central European University

  Monday, May 19, 2014 — 6:56 pm

  dis-identifying possible and desirable. As I often end anything I write or say, did that make sense? ...
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  Coming Home with Keeping Time

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  Alessandra Raengo Georgia State University

  March 31, 2025

  later— a challenge to the possibility of maintaining archives of radical praxis pivots around missing ...
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  We Need To Talk About Kevin (2011): What culpability does a mother bear for the sins of her children?

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  Sloan Joyner

  September 24, 2025

  she contemplates what she could have possibly done differently to prevent this from ever happening. ...
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  Posterior Antagonisms in Larisa Shepitko's Heat (1962)

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  Jayson William Quearry GSU Perimeter College

  February 03, 2026

  uncommon at the time. However, here another possible antagonism arises. To satisfy industry standards, the ...
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  Never Have I Ever: Navigating the Autonomy-Connection Dialectic

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  Gianmarco Soares de Vargas Texas Tech University

  March 31, 2026

  lens, it's possible to find concepts that are not shown superficially. Analyzing media in this way ...
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  'Crying for Justin Bieber' and Negotiating Affective Fan Performance

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  Lindsay H. Garrison University of Wisconsin, Madison

  June 15, 2010

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  'Crying for Justin Bieber' and Negotiating Affective Fan Performance Justin Bieber fannish engagement fandom children celebrity Curator's Note The clip on the left features 3-year-old Cody, known for tearfully explaining her love for tween ...
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  The Outrageous Origins of the Motion Comic!

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  Drew Morton Texas A&M University-Texarkana

  August 04, 2011

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  The Outrageous Origins of the Motion Comic! movies Motion Comics comics Curator's Note In 2008, the Wall Street Journal reported that DC Comics would begin to utilize a "new kind of Web entertainment" called motion comics to "unlock va ...
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  Hannibal, Slash Fandom, and Queer Media Visibility

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  Melanie Kohnen Lewis & Clark College

  September 25, 2015

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  Hannibal, Slash Fandom, and Queer Media Visibility LGBTQ Hannibal fandom audiences Curator's Note When I first saw the scene in the S3 finale in which Will Graham presses his hand against the glass wall of Hannibal Lecter's cell, I was reminded ...
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  Idiot Media: The Culture of NekNomination Videos

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  Tanya Horeck & Tina Kendall Anglia Ruskin University

  April 02, 2014

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  Idiot Media: The Culture of NekNomination Videos social media Circulating pain affect Curator's Note NekNomination videos – a social media drinking game which involves (mainly) young men drinking potentially lethal combinations of alcohol and then is ...

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