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  Re: Hip-hopsploitation: Representing 1980s Hip-hop in Wild Style and Beat Street

  Great Post, Aaron

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  Cutler Edwards UC San Diego

  Monday, September 3, 2012 — 9:53 pm

  interaction, and possibility. Reifying hip hop as black circumscribes those possibilities, even as it continues ...
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  Hip-hopsploitation: Representing 1980s Hip-hop in Wild Style and Beat Street

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  Aaron Dickinson Sachs Saint Mary's College of California

  September 03, 2012

  12 comments

  Hip-hopsploitation: Representing 1980s Hip-hop in Wild Style and Beat Street Wild Style racial politics Race/Ethnicity hip-hopsploitation Hip-Hop Cinema hip-hop cinema Beat Street 1980s Curator's Note If such a thing as “hip-hop cinema” exists, it wa ...
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  Raphael Saadiq's Soul Memories

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  Michael D Dwyer Arcadia University

  August 30, 2012

  7 comments

  "Big Easy"—a feeling of horror at the conditions that made Katrina possible, and the longing for ...
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  Re: Hipster Archaeology

  To chime in here - I think

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  Andrew Seroff Unattached (ND '11)

  Tuesday, August 28, 2012 — 5:47 pm

  through video game audiences. A unique characteristic of the medium- the endless possibility of ...
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  Re: "Telling Stories is the Most Powerful Thing": Kony 2012 and Narrative [Dis]Unity

  Thanks for posting on this!

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  Christopher Boulton University of Tampa

  Tuesday, August 28, 2012 — 7:35 am

  Russell's storytelling techniques? Even if we set aside Kony 2012's neocolonial implications, and the ...
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  Re: Hipster Archaeology

  An underexplored topic

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  Andrew Seroff Unattached (ND '11)

  Monday, August 27, 2012 — 7:05 pm

  One' as a popular take, yet constructive form of video game nostalgia- that addresses the possibility ...
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  Re: Politics Is Funny, But Nothing To Laugh At: The Daily Show And Its Limits

  Thank you, not just contrarianism

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  Sudeep Sharma UCLA

  Monday, August 27, 2012 — 7:56 am

  possibilities and connections for fans that requires in-depth academic research. While it is easy to dismiss my ... attempting to introduce the possibly objectionable idea The Daily Show is another dispiriting component of ...
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  Hipster Archaeology

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  Paul Benzon Skidmore College

  August 26, 2012

  11 comments

  Hipster Archaeology video games Media Nostalgia media archeology media archaeology gaming history atari Curator's Note The Atari video game burial is a central urban legend of video gaming culture. Popular belief has it that in September 1983, faced ...
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  Re: Politics Is Funny, But Nothing To Laugh At: The Daily Show And Its Limits

  Contrarianism

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  Jeffrey P. Jones Old Dominion University

  Sunday, August 26, 2012 — 2:46 am

  from the news media/political professional nexus tends to control and shut down so many possibilities ...
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  Re: Politics Is Funny, But Nothing To Laugh At: The Daily Show And Its Limits

  I Was There

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  Kelli Marshall DePaul University

  Friday, August 24, 2012 — 2:36 pm

  Aside from perhaps Fox News or Bill Maher (who was likely jealous of an event he could never pull off ...

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