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  Playing Fair in GBBO

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  Graig Uhlin Oklahoma State University

  February 11, 2017

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  American) series. When incidents of possible sabotage do arise, their rarity generates an overwhelming ...
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  Postcolonial Cozy

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  Erica Maria Cheung University of California, Irvine

  February 15, 2017

  comfort in difference in the GBBO. South Asian spices have a special place in the show’s history because ...
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  “You Feel It.” True Crime’s Advantage in Dramatization

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  Leslie Rowen Bellarmine University

  February 16, 2017

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  office after a long day in court. “I’m not a public personality,” she exclaims, revealing an emotionality ...
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  Road-Tripping to Gene Kelly’s House: Fan Tourism on Rodeo Drive

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  Kelli Marshall DePaul University

  March 03, 2017

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  Road-Tripping to Gene Kelly’s House: Fan Tourism on Rodeo Drive fandom fan architecture Curator's Note From 1946 to his death in 1996, Hollywood song-and-dance man Gene Kelly lived in a white farmhouse on Rodeo Drive. For nearly a decade, the Kellys ...
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  Re: Road-Tripping to Gene Kelly’s House: Fan Tourism on Rodeo Drive

  This is fascinating! I’m

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  Alexandra Edwards University of Georgia

  Tuesday, March 14, 2017 — 4:17 pm

  This is fascinating! I'm intrigued by the idea of fans stopping by to "read" the house like a text that tells them about Kelly's life. Do you know who owns the house now? I'm amazed that it hasn't become an official attractio ...
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  Closure and Continuation in the Gilmore Girls Reboot

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  Martin Zeller-Jacques Queen Margaret University

  March 23, 2017

  “Yeah?” “I’m pregnant.” This ending substitutes a grand authorial gesture for narrative closure. Palladino ... finishes the series on her own terms, yet also holds out the possibility of further stories of a new ...
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  “I wanna do a lot of things that don’t make sense”: Intimate Knowledge and Erotic Power

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  Anna Lee Swan University of Washington

  March 24, 2017

  a stereotypical Black masculine façade, and instead explores the possibilities of the erotic as a way of knowing. ...
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  Slow Power

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  Samantha Dols American University

  March 26, 2017

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  Slow Power slow tv Norway emerging media Curator's Note In 2013, Al Jazeera reported on an emerging media tradition in Norway: "A new kind of reality TV show was born, and it goes against the rules of TV engagement. There is no story line, no sc ...
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  Death, statues and legends

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  Bartosz Wieremiej Jagiellonian University

  March 27, 2017

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  Death, statues and legends statues Sports Video Games historical players Curator's Note There are things that cannot be avoided while playing sport video games. Certain stories, that are told over and over again, numbers that tend to be constantly an ...
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  Re: Death, statues and legends

  I’m curious about this notion

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  Andrew Kemp Georgia State University

  Saturday, April 1, 2017 — 4:04 am

  I'm curious about this notion of "monuments," which sort of suggests a kind of stasis or preservation of the past athlete, which is certainly part of the appeal and also a bit uncanny. But I'm wondering about games that integrate these ...

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