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  Re: What Happens When We Watch What Happens Live?, or The Aftershow as Critical Mediation

  Fantastic post!

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  Jacquelyn Arcy Saint Xavier University

  Wednesday, April 27, 2016 — 2:14 pm

  sheen of Bravo’s reality TV series, are part of the pleasure of watching Watch What Happens Live. I’m ...
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  Re: From Cold War Alcoholism to Post-9/11 Patriotism: The Repurposing of David Bowie's '"Heroes'"

  Hi Zack This is such a great

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  Leanne Weston University of Warwick

  Tuesday, May 3, 2016 — 2:17 pm

  Hi Zack This is such a great choice. I’m so glad someone decided to post about David Bowie. ...
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  Righteous Anger and the Fear of a Black Planet in Taxi Driver

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  Greg Oguss University of Southern California

  March 20, 2008

  9 comments

  a commentary on the “Black is Beautiful” era, which dates back to James Brown’s 1968 hit “Say It Loud (I’m ... Black and I’m Proud),” a song that became the soundtrack to the following decade, featuring ...
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  A Glimpse of Nodal Ontology: Media, Art, Globalization

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  Sorin Radu Cucu LaGuardia Community College, CUNY

  October 01, 2012

  3 comments

  This possible argument cannot simply be refuted by means of evoking here the catchy title of Wael ... a modal ontology (according to which the political network exists in one possible world), but a nodal ... ontology (according to which there are complex nodal points of intersection between the possible worlds and ...
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  “I’m Here Because I’m Bored”: Getting at the Nature of Ludic Computation

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  Judd Ruggill University of Arizona

  October 30, 2007

  1 comment

  “I’m Here Because I’m Bored”: Getting at the Nature of Ludic Computation computers gaming history ...
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  "Not Ready to Make Nice": Indigenous Music Video and Lessons of History

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  Michelle Raheja University of California, Riverside

  May 05, 2009

  8 comments

  using the Dixie Chicks’ lyrics as a prompt:  “Forgive, sounds good.  Forget, I’m not sure I could.  They ... say time heals everything, but I’m still waiting.”  The video transforms the lyrics from an ...
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  Re: “She Might Like to be a Veterinarian”: Parents, Parent Companies, and the Princess Movement

  This is a great clip,

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  Derek Johnson University of Wisconsin, Madison

  Wednesday, May 7, 2008 — 2:25 am

  I’m picturing isn’t the passive feminine ideal feared by this clip’s lone detractor, but unruly women, ... commercial television. I’m just imagining crazy scenarios (and I don’t mean to speak ill of any adult ...
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  Dharma Orientation Film

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  Roberta Pearson University of Nottingham (UK)

  October 28, 2007

  1 comment

  cool enough that I’m editing a book on it at this very moment and hoping for some viral marketing). But ... I’m also a little worried about the totalising spread of big media that this clip represents, bringing ...
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  Re: As seen on screen? Mimetic SF fandom & the crafting of replica(nt)s

  AS SEEN ON SCREEN, CONTINUED

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  David Gregory Georgia State University

  Saturday, September 11, 2010 — 4:04 pm

  I’m so glad Matt Hills chose the clip he did; a very rich artifact, to say the least. Very much ... looking forward to seeing your continuing work on this subject, sir! I’m wondering if something like fan ...
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  Re: We So Seldom Look on Love in Porn

  I don't do romance

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  Karly-Lynne Scott Northwestern University

  Wednesday, April 1, 2015 — 1:37 am

  Thanks so much for your comment, Adam. I’m a bit leery of the term romance—of the way it has been ... others are positioned against it (I’m thinking here of something like Christian Grey’s assertion “I don’t ...

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