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  “Whatever's Happening, It’s Spreading”: The Stranger Things Legal Paratext

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  Andrew Kemp Georgia State University

  November 03, 2017

  role (“I don’t want you to think I’m a total wastoid…”) and threats about the company’s legal team ... object for our heavily-surveilled media landscape. Netflix surely considered the possibility that the ...
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  Five Years of Cinema Journal In Focus at In Media Res

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  Christine Becker University of Notre Dame

  February 24, 2018

  conversation that isn’t possible in print form. Admittedly, the comments sections of In Focus posts on IMR ... mind, I’m excited to deliver to In Media Res readers this week a handful of previous posts that I think ...
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  Production as Feminist Activism: #TimesUp and Women Lead Production in Hollywood

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  Tanya D. Zuk, Ph.D. Georgia State University

  March 22, 2018

  production entrepreneurship as social change #TimesUp #Metoo Curator's Note I’m focusing on the ways in ... financially in order to continue to make content, as well as to have the largest impact possible, but it is ...
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  Re: Idiot Media: The Culture of NekNomination Videos

  Laughter

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  Jason Middleton University of Rochester

  Wednesday, May 28, 2014 — 4:57 pm

  for Freud signifies the ego overriding the superego, and a “repudiation of the possibility of ... foreground. So I’m left wondering whether this shift away from laughter/generic framing as comedy alters the ...
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  Re: Ritualistic Embodiment in Fever Ray's "When I Grow Up"

  I definitely think that Karin

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  Michael Frazer Auburn University

  Thursday, December 8, 2016 — 12:48 am

  spectacular, and the video is almost voyeuristic, possibly as a method of criticizing those entering into the ... the insider will know the purpose of the ritual intent. I’m trying to think of any example that ...
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  Thinking the non-binary, incommensurability, and sex in Thiagarajan Kumararaja’s Super Deluxe (2019)

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  Sneha Kumar Concordia University - Film & Moving Image Studies

  September 05, 2023

  between possibility and closure— [4] are how she comes to embody the subject of the non-binary in the ... its entanglements with land, labor, and love, in a South Asian context, cannot be contained in ...
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  ‘I’m Not a Homophobe, It’s Just Not Central to the Plot’: Colonizing Queer Spaces on Battlestar Galactica

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  Avi Santo Old Dominion University

  January 30, 2009

  ‘I’m Not a Homophobe, It’s Just Not Central to the Plot’: Colonizing Queer Spaces on Battlestar ... (and possibly in masking their homophobia). Where some producers in the 1970s sought to make TV ... a slippery means of transforming possible bigotries into matters of personal preference – for the plot ...
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  Extreme Action at the Limits of Endurance

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  Adam Cottrel Georgia State University

  May 09, 2014

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  or not, the goal is universally to seek out what is possible, to question limitations, and, ... for the heat; I’ve trained for the roads; but I’m just waiting to find out what the third thing is ... embrace extreme difficulty, to willingly seek out what is possible, to claim new potential where new ...
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  Re: Double Double Miley Trouble: Notes Toward a Queer Aesthet(h)ics of Duplicity

  A (Back) Door

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  Ryan Tracy Independent

  Friday, May 23, 2014 — 2:08 pm

  abstract, too anti-collective. I would read this along with Butler’s contention (as far as I’m reading it) ... tension between self-insisting and self-wrecking, a tension that quite possibly cannot be resolved. After ... world, in a world that attempts to deprive us of those resources that make survival possible, and if the ...
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  “But Does He Know How to Wind You Up?” Gwen Stefani Samples The Sound of Music

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  Jane Park University of Oklahoma

  February 19, 2007

  1 comment

  performance race gender music video intertextuality sampling Orientalism Asian Curator's Note A student ...

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