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  Re: “You Got No Idea What’s Goin’ On On That Island!”: What SNL Can Teach Us About Lost

  As a side-note, I'm

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  Will Brooker Kingston University

  Wednesday, February 13, 2008 — 9:50 pm

  As a side-note, I'm genuinely surprised (perhaps I shouldn't be) that of the four clips so far, only mine is from Lost itself. I guess this suggests the way that "Lost" is scattered across various texts (and we're only including f ...
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  Lost is a Four Letter Word

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  Julian Stringer University of Nottingham

  February 14, 2008

  3 comments

  Lost is a Four Letter Word Lost narrative global/local Franco Moretti literary theory media capitals Hawaii on location Oahu cultural geography Curator's Note Franco Moretti writes that in literary works “each space determines, or at least encourages ...
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  Re: Lost is a Four Letter Word

  Fascinating (and now four

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  Will Brooker Kingston University

  Thursday, February 14, 2008 — 12:17 pm

  LOTR and NZ? Finally, the possible link between the Pearl Station and Pearl Harbor never stuck me ...
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  Mothers and Daughters: Watching The Gilmore Girls

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  Barbara Selznick University of Arizona

  February 19, 2008

  6 comments

  Mothers and Daughters: Watching The Gilmore Girls gender representation WB melodrama Gilmore Girls auto-ethnography affect motherhood ideology guilty pleasures Curator's Note I wait until late in the semester to tell my students that I was a loyal vi ...
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  Re: Mothers and Daughters: Watching The Gilmore Girls

  I find it interesting that,

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  Dan Leopard St. Mary’s College of California

  Tuesday, February 19, 2008 — 8:38 pm

  father as symbolic of a possibly similar coming to terms between a more advanced civilization and ours. ...
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  Transgression, Confession, and Ying Yang Twins’s “Wait (The Whisper Song)”

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  Michael Z. Newman University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee

  February 20, 2008

  1 comment

  cultural values and norms. I think this last benefit in particular is what I’m getting from telling you how ...
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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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  Burgundy Histories? WEWS-TV “Catch 5!” 1970s promo

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  Mark Williams Dartmouth College

  February 26, 2008

  8 comments

  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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  Baseball *Is* All It’s Quacked Up To Be

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  Doug Battema Western New England University

  February 27, 2008

  14 comments

  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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  Re: Baseball *Is* All It’s Quacked Up To Be

  Doug, I think you've hit

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  Mark Williams Dartmouth College

  Wednesday, February 27, 2008 — 6:28 pm

  (Do I have that right?) No bowling alone for this group! [possibly obscure reference to Robert ...

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