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  Re: Idiot Media: The Culture of NekNomination Videos

  (im)perturbable bodies...?

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  Matthew Ferrari University of Massachusetts - Amherst

  Wednesday, April 2, 2014 — 8:27 pm

  Thank you Tanya and Tina for your post. I too immediately thought of Jackass as an intertext here. On one hand I do see the Jackass spinoff show, Wildboyz, as effectively a parody (and thus a kind of critique, if not exactly "resistance") of the ...
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  The UFC’s Phantom Cam: Refining the Spectacle of Corporeal Damage and Durability

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  Matthew Ferrari University of Massachusetts - Amherst

  April 03, 2014

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  refined to their most valued (and possibly disturbing) imagery  –  while the brutality of actual duration ...
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  Re: Idiot Media: The Culture of NekNomination Videos

  Idiocy and Privacy

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  Joss Hands Anglia Ruskin University

  Thursday, April 3, 2014 — 3:27 pm

  privatised life to the extent that no public life is really possible, that we are all 'idiots'- ...
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  Re: "Rape Culture" and the Social Media

  As dead as...

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  Peter Snowdon MAD Faculty, PXL/University of Hasselt, Belgium

  Thursday, April 3, 2014 — 8:13 pm

  trying to drain it of any possible power, let alone any power over him. In this sense, his display is ...
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  Orphan Black and the Performance Text of Attractions

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  R. Colin Tait Texas Christian University

  April 07, 2014

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  Orphan Black and the Performance Text of Attractions Television Acting Tatiana Maslany performance Orphan Black Curator's Note   Quality Television depends on quality acting. Period. Though new titles in TV Studies scholarship- such as Elana Levine a ...
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  Re: Orphan Black and the Performance Text of Attractions

  Long performances

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  Justin Owen Rawlins The University of Tulsa

  Monday, April 7, 2014 — 9:19 pm

  I really like this piece, Colin. I'm struck by the possibilities that television's long ...
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  Bloody Accents!

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  Christine Becker University of Notre Dame

  April 08, 2014

  4 comments

  status? Regardless, I’m already certain the biggest problem I’ll have with Gracepoint is that “Bloody ...
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  Re: Orphan Black and the Performance Text of Attractions

  Versatility & TV acting

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  Aaron Taylor University of Lethbridge

  Sunday, April 13, 2014 — 2:23 pm

  the confluences of performance styles and modalities that only seem possible in serialized media. If ...
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  Inside Out: Collaborative Creativity and the Pixar Braintrust

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  Christopher Holliday King's College London

  April 21, 2014

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  Inside Out: Collaborative Creativity and the Pixar Braintrust Pixar Animation Studios Hollywood cinema Disney corporate creativity computer animation Curator's Note The recent publication of Pixar Animation Studios President Ed Catmull’s Creativity, ...
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  Pixar's RenderMan and Proprietary Technology in CGI Animation

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  Alla Gadassik Emily Carr University of Art + Design

  April 22, 2014

  2 comments

  has not only made Pixar’s animated films technically possible, it also, in part, defined the company’s ...

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