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  Re: Serial Characterization and Inferred Interiority

  Point taken. The interesting

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  Frank Kelleter Göttingen University (Germany)

  Wednesday, December 14, 2011 — 6:54 pm

  perhaps this is what makes such shows possible (financially feasible) at all. By contrast, late entry is ...
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  TV series, metaseriality and "the very special episode"

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  Andreas Jahn-Sudmann John-F-Kennedy-Institute, Free University Berlin

  December 15, 2011

  8 comments

  TV series, metaseriality and "the very special episode" Very Special Episode Popular Seriality Metaseriality Curator's Note */ "Don't do 'the very special episode' in which the characters have to deal with addictions, am ...
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  Re: TV series, metaseriality and "the very special episode"

  Metaserial intelligence

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  Andreas Jahn-Sudmann John-F-Kennedy-Institute, Free University Berlin

  Thursday, December 15, 2011 — 10:08 am

  possibility for audiences to switch from the level of immediacy to the level of hypermediacy (or to the ...
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  Authorizing Alternative Authorships: The Popular Serialities of Superhero Blockbuster Spoofs

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  Daniel Stein DFG Research Unit "Popular Seriality," John-F.-Kennedy-Institute, FU Berlin

  December 16, 2011

  7 comments

  Authorizing Alternative Authorships: The Popular Serialities of Superhero Blockbuster Spoofs Superhero Spoof Popular Seriality authorship Curator's Note Much of the discussion about superhero blockbusters revolves around questions of comic book fidel ...
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  Re: Authorizing Alternative Authorships: The Popular Serialities of Superhero Blockbuster Spoofs

  Resilience to parody

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  Ruth Mayer University of Hannover

  Saturday, December 17, 2011 — 4:51 pm

  Hands of Shang-Chi-comics he's routinely equipped with a 'good' Asian American ...
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  Occupy Greenville: What Should Local Look Like?

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  Amanda Ann Klein East Carolina University

  December 20, 2011

  2 comments

  Greenville should be in the public eye as soon as possible while others argued that protesting with such ...
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  Re-envisioning Bakhtin’s Carnivalesque through America’s Next Top Model

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  Julie Snyder-Yuly Iowa State University

  January 11, 2012

  3 comments

  Re-envisioning Bakhtin’s Carnivalesque through America’s Next Top Model reality television carnivalesque Bakhtin America's Next Top Model Curator's Note This post was co-curated by Tracey Owens Patton, University of Wyoming. The notion of the ca ...
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  Re: Re-envisioning Bakhtin’s Carnivalesque through America’s Next Top Model

   I’m so glad you used the

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  Kim A. Knight University of Texas at Dallas

  Wednesday, January 11, 2012 — 3:02 pm

   I'm so glad you used the carnivalesque to frame your analysis. I have only seen this last season of ANTM, but this was a concept that surfaced again and again as I watched. What did you make of Tyra's role in the "viral" video episode ...
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  Technological#Failure

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  Kristopher L. Cannon Georgia State University

  January 15, 2012

  9 comments

  technology might also open up the possibility to re-/consider the power of failure. Let us consider the ...
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  Re: Technological#Failure

  I'm intrigued by "appreciation."

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  Kristopher L. Cannon Georgia State University

  Monday, January 16, 2012 — 10:21 pm

  Paul, I really like what you suggest about appreciation as an element to consider within these contexts, and it may connect with some of the arguments I would make about an Aesthetic of Failure- as both art and point of contact. So, I'm interested in ...

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