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  Re: From Bartlet to Knope: Politics and instructional television

  Thanks for leaving

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  Rossend Sanchez-Baro Universitat Pompeu Fabra

  Thursday, August 23, 2012 — 11:40 pm

  Leslie Knope is mainly possible because she works in the local administration (and more importantly, ...
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  Re: From Bartlet to Knope: Politics and instructional television

  Comedy

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  Rossend Sanchez-Baro Universitat Pompeu Fabra

  Thursday, August 23, 2012 — 11:29 pm

  possibility of developing more complex plots. ...
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  Re: Politics Is Funny, But Nothing To Laugh At: The Daily Show And Its Limits

  The Political Moment

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  Robert Cavanagh Northwestern University/New York Film Academy

  Thursday, August 23, 2012 — 7:23 pm

  work you mention, but I think I'm in interested in the possibilities of a different kind of ...
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  Re: Politics Is Funny, But Nothing To Laugh At: The Daily Show And Its Limits

  Parrhesia

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  Kris Coffield Interstitial Journal

  Thursday, August 23, 2012 — 9:57 am

  specific conditions of possibility. First, the parrhesiastes, or truth-speaker, must form an enunciative ...
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  Re: Politics Is Funny, But Nothing To Laugh At: The Daily Show And Its Limits

  Appropriate political optics

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  Sudeep Sharma UCLA

  Thursday, August 23, 2012 — 6:53 am

  Thank you for your response Jonathan. I don’t want to come off as flippant but I’m attempting to ... make my argument in the space allowed. I also want to point out I think I’m doing more of a discourse ... into a performance, divorcing it from its power and possibility. All protests attempt to make visible ...
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  Re: From Bartlet to Knope: Politics and instructional television

  Structuration

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  Kris Coffield Interstitial Journal

  Wednesday, August 22, 2012 — 5:29 am

  tacitly validate the political structures that produce the ficitional conditions of possibility in which ...
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  Politics Is Funny, But Nothing To Laugh At: The Daily Show And Its Limits

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  Sudeep Sharma UCLA

  August 22, 2012

  12 comments

  overall media climate where the possibility of politics to produce meaningful, systemic change is a joke. ... limiting the possibility of politics, both The Daily Show and the media it ridicules contribute to ...
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  "Game Change" and "Showgirls": Politics as Camp

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  Michael Barthel University of Washington

  August 21, 2012

  5 comments

  what possibilities open up? ...
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  From Bartlet to Knope: Politics and instructional television

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  Rossend Sanchez-Baro Universitat Pompeu Fabra

  August 20, 2012

  10 comments

  From Bartlet to Knope: Politics and instructional television The West Wing Politics as Entertainment Leslie Knope Jed Bartlet instructional TV Curator's Note The West Wing seems to be a unique example in recent American television. Despite its long t ...
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  Re: Doubting Science Along Party Lines: The Polarization of Climate Change

  Polarization as an excuse to do nothing?

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  Justin Owen Rawlins and Zenia Kish The University of Tulsa

  Sunday, August 19, 2012 — 12:50 am

  apparently). Submitting American interests to anyone else is not possible in this two-party, corporate-funded ...

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