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  Re: Zombies and suspense

  I agree

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  Nick Synstelien UCLA

  Friday, June 8, 2012 — 9:37 pm

  come together and save the world, it is not until the last possible moment that they actually put aside ... their differences and come together.   Just at the point of possible enemy victory, the Avengers work ...
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  Re: Sunday driver: What does AMC's scheduling say about its branding?

  Final question

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  Nick Synstelien UCLA

  Friday, June 8, 2012 — 9:42 pm

  possibly benefit AMC because they are linking themselves to already well-established channels like HBO, ...
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  From Red Boots to African-American Roots: Footloose as a Modern Dance-Movie Musical

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  John Trenz University of Pittsburgh

  June 11, 2012

  18 comments

  From Red Boots to African-American Roots: Footloose as a Modern Dance-Movie Musical remakes Footloose film musical dancing dance movies Curator's Note Footloose 2011's opening celebrates the 1984 original by mimicking its cultural reality as a r ...
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  Music Video and the Audiovisual Turn

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  Carol Vernallis Stanford University

  June 12, 2012

  5 comments

  technologies make possible new formal conceits. Color sweeps across Romain Gavras's  "No Church in ... I"   suggest new possibilities of representation. Interactive clips like Vincent Morisset's and ...
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  Re: From Red Boots to African-American Roots: Footloose as a Modern Dance-Movie Musical

  Cont'd

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  John Trenz University of Pittsburgh

  Tuesday, June 12, 2012 — 8:41 pm

  from below.  Film, M/TV, and the Internet have brought us as close as possible to the origination ... Cultural Studies) the possibility may be achieved by establishing a space (for myself) between history and ...
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  Re: From Red Boots to African-American Roots: Footloose as a Modern Dance-Movie Musical

  Post 9/11

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  Michael E. Muhme Lake Michigan College

  Wednesday, June 13, 2012 — 2:41 am

  terrible has happened and society needs to pass any (even possibly excessive) law necessary to prevent loss ...
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  Is Bollywood Still Producing Musicals? (Has It Ever?)

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  Nilanjana Bhattacharjya Arizona State University

  June 13, 2012

  10 comments

  Is Bollywood Still Producing Musicals? (Has It Ever?) Bollywood musicals song sequences Curator's Note The Bollywood film industry is often distinguished by its having produced films that have almost always been "musicals" since the 1930s. ...
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  Re: Is Bollywood Still Producing Musicals? (Has It Ever?)

  Musical Melodrama

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  Nilanjana Bhattacharjya Arizona State University

  Wednesday, June 13, 2012 — 11:06 pm

  time, there seems to a vaguely formulated resistance from South Asian audiences to calling even ...
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  Re: Music Video and the Audiovisual Turn

  Today’s music videos showcase

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  Carol Vernallis Stanford University

  Thursday, June 14, 2012 — 8:28 pm

  representations possible) and it’s richer than what we’ve seen before. Gaga is a fashionista-type Adams-family ... might make narrative more possible. “Telephone” is more cellular and fragmented than the average pop ...
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  Tom Cruise in Rock of Ages: Giving Until It Hurts

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  Kelli Marshall DePaul University

  June 15, 2012

  7 comments

  Tom Cruise in Rock of Ages: Giving Until It Hurts Rock of Ages musicals film musical Curator's Note Toward the end of Rock of Ages, washed-up club owner and band promoter Dennis Dupree (Alec Baldwin) receives a bag of cash from Stacee Jaxx (Tom Cruis ...

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