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  Otherworldly Comedic Legacies, or; Legends Waiting in the Wings

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  Meredith Bak Rutgers University-Camden

  March 25, 2025

  Repeated shots of the star-studded studio audience throughout the evening have hinted at possibilities ... articulating a multi-generational comedic legacy.[2]Instead, Streep strode onstage announcing “I’m here, I’m ... here, I’m here,” blaming her tardiness on bathroom troubles. Neither McKinnon’s contemporary, nor ...
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  Jim Jarmusch as (Instagram) Collage Artist

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  Jennifer O'Meara Trinity College Dubliin

  February 05, 2025

  a script, making a piece of music, or shooting a film, I’m always drawn toward variations and repetitions. ... I always start by gathering materials for quite a long time that relate to some idea that I’m starting to ...
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  Cabbage, “Arabs” and Camel Meat in Indonesia: A Viral YouTube Satire with Deep Historical Roots

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  Dag Yngvesson University of Nottingham

  April 25, 2025

  Curator's Note The video I’m engaging with, entitled  Sayur Kol! Arab Gokil Mantavv –– Punxgoaran Cover 3way ... Asian films in the 1950s and 60s (and beyond), while attaching these attitudes to an emergent, rough, ...
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  Track 25: The Living Room Studio- a slow archive of black study: the mixtape

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  djones Georgia State University

  April 04, 2025

  me as Freddy cutting through from the image. It could be nail polish or BBQ sauce. I’m not investing ...
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  The Empty Panopticon: Surveillance and Parrhesia in Iranian Cinema

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  Parsa Naji Georgia State University

  February 19, 2025

  framework of this discussion, two possible explanations can be suggested. First is the persistence of ... panopticon. However, there is also a second possible reason for this decline in strict censorship: perhaps ... possibility that the supposedly rigid and fearsome government censorship system may have been nothing more ...
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  Cutting Up: Keeping Time's Ensemblic Humor

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  Corey Couch Georgia State University

  April 03, 2025

  question. I’m wondering what role humor plays in black study? If humor is both a matter of social connection ...
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  Queer World Building and Utopian Possibilities

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  Stacy Rusnak Georgia Gwinnett College

  March 10, 2025

  Queer World Building and Utopian Possibilities constellation conference Angelo Restivo Queer ... rise to a sense of hope to see beyond ‘what is’ to political possibilities of ‘what might be’ to help ... insistence on a queer future or a genuine possibility of a queerworld.  As Munoz states, “We may never touch ...
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  In Memoriam at SNL 50

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  Brittney Edmonds University of Wisconsin - Madison

  March 24, 2025

  subversion is possible within such a determining frame. The inclusion of “Word Association” in “In Memoriam” ...
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  “My memory comes in the way of your history”: Radical remembrance in Amma Ariyan as a route to politicizing history

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  SanchariDuttaChowdhury Georgia State University - Department of Communication

  February 17, 2025

  the diegesis and what it continues from (the off-screen space). Such methods make possible the arrival ... at micro-histories and the registering of spectral contingencies as virtual possibilities co-existent ... possibilities at the level of discourse but also seemingly paved the way for the radical re-imagining of Marxism ...
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  Epistemic Altruism: YouTube, Youth, and Screen Media anno 2025

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  Ari Purnama Utrecht University

  April 21, 2025

  more fundamental—and perhaps more widespread—than our institutions typically acknowledged. I’m ...

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