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  Pretty Little Peaks: Policing the Gendered Boundary of Quality Television

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  Dana Och University of Pittsburgh

  May 25, 2016

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  Pretty Little Peaks: Policing the Gendered Boundary of Quality Television Twin Peaks soap opera Pretty Little Liars Homage cinema journal Curator's Note Twin Peaks (ABC, 1990–1991) is often invoked by critics in relation to any series that has a murd ...
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  Brian Regan: “Poking a stick at the world”

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  Kathleen Collins John Jay College of Criminal Justice (City University of New York)

  May 19, 2016

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  male, Regan counters the system with sarcastic barbs and beleaguered refrains of “I’m trying.” Though ...
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  Re: Poems from Guantanamo: A Staged Musical Work Inspired by Poetry of Detainees Held in Guantanamo

  A Few Thoughts

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  Kristen A. Traynor Kent State University

  Saturday, May 14, 2016 — 7:31 pm

  a political piece, but without the willingness to face this challenge (and possible backlash), the broader ...
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  GTMO as Museum Artifact

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  Michael Welch Rutgers University

  May 13, 2016

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  GTMO as Museum Artifact war on terror human rights GTMO Curator's Note GTMO as Museum Artefact Michael Welch, Professor, Rutgers University, USA In my recent book, Escape to Prison: Penal Tourism and the Pull of Punishment (2015, University of Califo ...
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  Poems from Guantanamo: A Staged Musical Work Inspired by Poetry of Detainees Held in Guantanamo

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  Sam Krahn Independent

  May 13, 2016

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  Poems from Guantanamo: A Staged Musical Work Inspired by Poetry of Detainees Held in Guantanamo staged musical work Poems from Guantanamo Guantanamo contemporary music Curator's Note My contribution to this forum is a brief reflection on my recent mu ...
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  Re: GTMO as Museum Artifact

  the critique of imprisonment from within and without

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  Alexandra Moore UNC Greensboro

  Wednesday, May 11, 2016 — 6:12 am

  more about the relationships that make that exchange possible? I wonder, too, about the visitors to the ...
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  Re: Rethinking Thinkpieces: Pop Criticism as Pop Culture

  ripple effects

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  Michael Lawrence Unaffiliated

  Friday, May 6, 2016 — 8:25 pm

  song" gets truncated. Another possible significance, which connects back to the first point you raise, ...
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  Rethinking Thinkpieces: Pop Criticism as Pop Culture

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  Michael Lawrence Unaffiliated

  May 06, 2016

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  Rethinking Thinkpieces: Pop Criticism as Pop Culture “think piece” “social media” “digital content” “criticism” Curator's Note Like any parody or remix, critical cultural commentary is itself a form of recontextualization — and in this moment of ‘the ...
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  Re: Cross-Cultural Appropriation of Pop Songs

  I’m interested in what you

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  Aaron Dickinson Sachs Saint Mary's College of California

  Thursday, May 5, 2016 — 4:09 pm

  I'm interested in what you mean by "transcending boundaries" here. It reminds me a little of the use of "cross-over" in U.S. music circles, which we know refers to when a song written by a person of color (most often an African-Am ...
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  Cross-Cultural Appropriation of Pop Songs

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  Brianni Nelson University of Texas at Dallas

  May 04, 2016

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  Cross-Cultural Appropriation of Pop Songs Youtube viral video viral vine video snapchat recontextualizing pop songs recontextualization of pop songs r&b pop music pop nineties next music meme internet hip hop cultural appropriation appropriation 90s C ...

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