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  Melodramatic Subjectivities in Minnelli’s The Cobweb (1955)

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  Agustin Zarzosa SUNY Purchase

  March 27, 2013

  unrealized possibilities in the actual world; their virtuality lies elsewhere, namely, in the work of ...
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  Re: Fantasizing our End through Film

  Thanks for the questions and further thoughts

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  Sheila Kunkle Metropolitan State University

  Tuesday, March 26, 2013 — 1:30 pm

  say that I’m talking specifically about how the apocalyptic film (and any disaster film) ends. The ... is dead (and there’s no hope of our survival, our planet, our universe), then nothing is possible. It ...
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  Fantasizing our End through Film

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  Sheila Kunkle Metropolitan State University

  March 25, 2013

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  scientific discoveries from the rapidity of global warming, to the possibility of an asteroid striking earth, ...
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  Re: From Representation to Simulation: A Videogame Translation of the Bechdel Test

  Gender Ambiguity in Games and Improved Portrayal of Women

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  Agnes Trzak Anglia Ruskin University Cambridge

  Saturday, March 16, 2013 — 1:47 pm

  whether it is possible to make a demand for 'improving' the portrayal of women. What we ...
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  From Representation to Simulation: A Videogame Translation of the Bechdel Test

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  Robin Haislett Texas Tech University

  March 15, 2013

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  From Representation to Simulation: A Videogame Translation of the Bechdel Test The Bechdel Test media representation Gender Simulation gender and gaming feminism Curator's Note By Robin Haislett (Texas Tech University) and Robert Moses Peaslee (Texas ...
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  Re: Raiding the Paratexts of Lara Croft

  Playing again and again

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  Mia Consalvo Concordia University

  Wednesday, March 13, 2013 — 11:11 am

  it's definitely possible to play games 'on their own' its also much easier (and sometimes ...
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  Re: Raiding the Paratexts of Lara Croft

  The Many, Many Faces of Lara Croft

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  Matthew Thomas Payne University of Notre Dame

  Wednesday, March 13, 2013 — 1:01 am

  as Lara Croft. To willfully ignore or set aside the paratexts of a game is to ignore much (although ...
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  Re: Dreams of Being/Killing Lara Croft: Exploring Agency and Gender in Tomb Raider

  Protecting vs. Projecting

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  Matthew Thomas Payne University of Notre Dame

  Tuesday, March 12, 2013 — 11:08 pm

  violence-- and, indeed, gendered violence-- is a topic that I’m sure we’ll return to throughout the week. ...
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  Raiding the Paratexts of Lara Croft

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  Mia Consalvo Concordia University

  March 12, 2013

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  Raiding the Paratexts of Lara Croft videogames Tomb Raider and Gender in Games gender Curator's Note */ Paratexts surround videogames and shape how we view, play, and understand them. Lara Croft is one of the most publicized videogame characters ever ...
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  Re: Dreams of Being/Killing Lara Croft: Exploring Agency and Gender in Tomb Raider

  Violence and Protection

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  Linzi Juliano University of California, Los Angeles

  Monday, March 11, 2013 — 6:21 pm

  raise a really fascinating point about the possible transition from "becoming" to ...

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