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  American Dreams, Israeli Formats: The Newfound Success of Israeli Formats on U.S. TV

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  Sharon Shahaf Georgia State University

  November 14, 2011

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  American Dreams, Israeli Formats: The Newfound Success of Israeli Formats on U.S. TV Israeli TV global formats Curator's Note This theme week, connected with the publication of Global Television Formats: Understanding Television across Borders   (Ore ...
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  Re: "What You Mean We?": Video-Cloning Laurie Anderson

  Performance and Reality

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  Michael S. Duffy Department of Electronic Media and Film, Towson University

  Saturday, November 12, 2011 — 11:15 pm

  "reality" and its possible constitutions and contradictions, Anderson's point here about Potemkin is ...
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  Re: Behind the scenes of 'Les Trucs du Cinema'

  Magic

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  Dan North The University of Exeter

  Saturday, November 12, 2011 — 4:48 pm

  would miss the point of a magic trick if you ever, for a moment, believed in the possibility of its ...
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  Behind the scenes of 'Les Trucs du Cinema'

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  Dan North The University of Exeter

  November 11, 2011

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  Behind the scenes of 'Les Trucs du Cinema' trick film special effects illusion early cinema audience Curator's Note These trading cards were distributed by the Liebig Extract of Meat Company around 1910. Each picture illustrates the shootin ...
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  Re: Avatar Comes Home: 3D and the Death of DVD

  From a practical standpoint...

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  Marc Ruppel National Endowment for the Humanities

  Thursday, November 10, 2011 — 2:37 pm

  the technology that makes it seemingly possible at home. ...
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  Avatar Comes Home: 3D and the Death of DVD

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  Chuck Tryon Fayetteville State University

  November 10, 2011

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  Avatar Comes Home: 3D and the Death of DVD television special effects panasonic james cameron avatar 3D Curator's Note  When James Cameron's 3D space epic, Avatar, was first being promoted, the movie was promoted as something that audiences had ...
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  Re: Digital Materialism: "300" Bodies in Virtual Space

  Bodies Drawn, Filmed, Painted, Rendered

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  Bob Rehak Swarthmore College

  Wednesday, November 9, 2011 — 5:43 pm

  books to cinematic life with as much fidelity to their source material as possible. Some, like The Polar ...
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  Digital Materialism: "300" Bodies in Virtual Space

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  Drew Ayers Eastern Washington University

  November 09, 2011

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  Digital Materialism: "300" Bodies in Virtual Space special effects materialism digital aesthetics Curator's Note Two parallel discourses emerged in the popular press coverage of Zach Snyder’s 2006 film adaptation of Frank Miller and Lynn Va ...
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  "What You Mean We?": Video-Cloning Laurie Anderson

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  Kimberly Ramirez LaGuardia Community College of the City University of New York

  November 08, 2011

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  "What You Mean We?": Video-Cloning Laurie Anderson special effects performance art Laurie Anderson Curator's Note For four decades, Laurie Anderson's  multimedia performances have utilized special effects to dissolve boundaries between ...
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  Sunday driver: What does AMC's scheduling say about its branding?

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  Andrew Daglas ChicagoNow.com

  November 03, 2011

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  Sunday driver: What does AMC's scheduling say about its branding? The Sopranos Sunday TV Mad Men HBO AMC Curator's Note In an era often heralded as a golden age of television, few networks have made the notion of “quality TV” as central to its b ...

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