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  Mapping Kanto Region Over a Town Near You: Pokémon Go and Fantasy in the Everyday

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  Jamie Henthorn Catawba College

  December 15, 2017

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  spawn around the world for 48 hours (East Asian players could catch Oceana-contained Kangaskhan). This ...
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  Re: Not Just a Sports Film: Spike Lee‘s Layered Contexts and Implications in He Got Game

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  Arthur Knight The College of William & Mary

  Tuesday, December 12, 2017 — 7:04 pm

  men (where it ends). Both groups are racially mixed, sort of cementing the utopian possibilities of ...
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  Not Just a Sports Film: Spike Lee‘s Layered Contexts and Implications in He Got Game

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  Dafna Kaufman The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  November 26, 2017

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  Not Just a Sports Film: Spike Lee‘s Layered Contexts and Implications in He Got Game Sports Film Spike Lee race capitalism Curator's Note    Since the mid-1980s, Spike Lee has become one of the most discussed African-American film directors. Lee' ...
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  Eating Settler-Colonialism: A meditation

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  Remy Yi Siang Low University of Sydney

  November 10, 2017

  expectant, salivating mouth.   Breathing in, I consider the people that have made this meal possible ... since forever.   Breathing in, I consider the non-human others that have made this meal possible.   This ...
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  Hustle and Post: The Cultural Impact of Instagram Sponsored Celebrity Posts

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  Elizabeth Hornsby Southeastern Louisiana University

  November 05, 2017

  possible side effects. This did not stop Kim from posting another ad promoting the product with the ...
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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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  “Darkness Falls Across the Land”: Pre-Existing Music and Strange Associations

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  Elizabeth Rosemary Hunt University of Liverpool

  October 28, 2017

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  Things. Also interesting is how sparingly Jackson’s vocals appear. It is possible Price’s monologue was ...
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  Re: Romero and the Horror of the Written Word

  A mind at war with itself

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  Antonio De La Garza CSUSM

  Thursday, October 26, 2017 — 3:18 am

  question for you is: are we different people when we act? Is it possible that the mind that writes might ...
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  Romero and the Horror of the Written Word

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  Kyle Christensen University of Memphis

  October 23, 2017

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  Romero and the Horror of the Written Word Writing The Dark Half Romero Curator's Note Although most known as a masterful horror director, many forget that George A. Romero was also a writer, penning the screenplays for many of his films. The craft of ...
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  Romero's Genius

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  Jennifer Van Houdt University of Washington

  October 23, 2017

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  (to the background chorus of “I’m a man,” nonetheless). Now, we could chalk up these coincidences of ...

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