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  The Dictionary of Obscure Figures

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  Alper Gobel Georgia State University

  April 25, 2024

  attends to the possibility that certain images reveal the desire of the informe.    [1] The longer version ...
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  The Future of Historical Poetics—Now 

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  Colin Burnett Washington University in St. Louis

  September 23, 2024

  invention, made possible by copyright laws first passed in the 18 th  and 19 th  centuries. But the ...
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  The Water of Life: Psychoanalyzing Dune: Part Two

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  Alexander Greenhough Stanford University

  October 16, 2024

  visionary prognostications about possible futures, which cause a prevaricating vulnerability that’s coded as ...
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  No Papers, Please: refusal as aesthetics in Vos papiers (ID, Please, 2013)

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  Ry Montgomery The University of Cambridge

  September 10, 2025

  suggests one set of possible answers to these questions. In the documentary, seven trans participants are ...
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  Perspectives on What Defines a True-Life Adaptation

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  Fatima Litim Dark Wonder Productions

  September 29, 2025

  ethical responsibility of staying as close to the spirit of the truth as possible while still crafting ...
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  Mirrors of Our World: Metaphor, Satire and Social Commentary in Editorial Cartoons and Memes

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  Aseel Zibin University of Jordan

  October 09, 2025

  minimizing processing time. This means that they attempt to pack as much meaning and relevance as possible ...
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  The Queer Animations of Barry JC Purves

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  Ferdinando Cocco University of Cambridge

  October 29, 2025

  possibility of the mise en abîme shines through all of the four films Purves came to produce after  Next: ...
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  Serial Characterization and Inferred Interiority

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  Jason Mittell Middlebury College

  December 14, 2011

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  Serial Characterization and Inferred Interiority seriality Popular Seriality interiority character Breaking Bad Curator's Note One great challenge facing moving image media is portraying a character’s interior thoughts and emotions. While literature ...
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  Hip-hopsploitation: Representing 1980s Hip-hop in Wild Style and Beat Street

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  Aaron Dickinson Sachs Saint Mary's College of California

  September 03, 2012

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  Hip-hopsploitation: Representing 1980s Hip-hop in Wild Style and Beat Street Wild Style racial politics Race/Ethnicity hip-hopsploitation Hip-Hop Cinema hip-hop cinema Beat Street 1980s Curator's Note If such a thing as “hip-hop cinema” exists, it wa ...
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  Re: Timing Effects in "Many Worlds Mario"

  "A Best-of-All-Possible-Worlds Recording"

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  Eric LeMay Ohio University

  Monday, May 10, 2010 — 3:57 pm

  Thanks, Christopher, for starting off the week with this interesting post.  As I watched the compression of the Mario's 134 attempts to make it through the level, it occurred to me that this recording tool also illustrates a common critique leveled a ...

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