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  Reboots, Remakes, and Adaptations

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  Ian Peters University of North Georgia

  August 06, 2012

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  Reboots, Remakes, and Adaptations Total Recall remakes Reboots franchises Blockbuster reboot Adaptations Curator's Note The current film and television landscape is ripe with reboots and remakes, with countless more to be released in the near future. ...
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  Rebooting Single Film Franchises - Business vs. Art

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  Ian Peters University of North Georgia

  Monday, August 6, 2012 — 1:08 pm

  a renewed interest, it could very possibly have done so and could have led to various tie-ins of its own. ...
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  Re: Reboots, Remakes, and Adaptations

  Well argued Ian! That is an

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  William Proctor Centre for Research in Media and Cultural Studies, University of Sunderland

  Monday, August 6, 2012 — 1:48 pm

  Recall' is stuck at a paradigmatic crossroads of reboot, remake, and adaptation (possibly ...
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  Sub-Franchises and Parent Franchises

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  Ian Peters University of North Georgia

  Monday, August 6, 2012 — 4:11 pm

  complicates this. What I think needs to be clarified therefore is possibly the concept of multiple ... sub-franchises that may possibly exist within larger franchises that may be media specific (for example, Batman ...
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  "No More Origins": Memory, Trauma, and X-Men: First Class

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  Wilson Koh National University of Singapore

  August 09, 2012

  3 comments

  "No More Origins": Memory, Trauma, and X-Men: First Class superheroes franchises Film and Television Reboots cameos blockbuster Curator's Note In “Memories Out of Order: Thought Suppression and the Disturbance of Sequence Memory”, psycholog ...
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  Re: "No More Origins": Memory, Trauma, and X-Men: First Class

  Memory Loss, Time, and Sustainability

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  Ian Peters University of North Georgia

  Thursday, August 9, 2012 — 5:43 pm

  their sequels, it is possible that the reaction against inconsistencies may be stronger this time ...
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  Doubting Science Along Party Lines: The Polarization of Climate Change

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  Emma Frances Bloomfield University of Nevada, Las Vegas

  August 15, 2012

  2 comments

  Doubting Science Along Party Lines: The Polarization of Climate Change skepticism politics politicalization polarization news media global warming Environment entertainment Colbert Report climate change Curator's Note The catastrophic consequences of ...
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  Polarization as an excuse to do nothing?

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  Justin Owen Rawlins and Zenia Kish The University of Tulsa

  Sunday, August 19, 2012 — 12:50 am

  apparently). Submitting American interests to anyone else is not possible in this two-party, corporate-funded ...
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  From Bartlet to Knope: Politics and instructional television

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  Rossend Sanchez-Baro Universitat Pompeu Fabra

  August 20, 2012

  10 comments

  From Bartlet to Knope: Politics and instructional television The West Wing Politics as Entertainment Leslie Knope Jed Bartlet instructional TV Curator's Note The West Wing seems to be a unique example in recent American television. Despite its long t ...
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  "Game Change" and "Showgirls": Politics as Camp

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  Michael Barthel University of Washington

  August 21, 2012

  5 comments

  what possibilities open up? ...

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