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  Bridges, Tunnels, Fences, and Moats: Border Visual Metaphors in The Bridge (TV series, FX, 2013)

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  Hector Amaya University of Virginia

  February 18, 2015

  2 comments

  the possibilities of entering or exiting. Borders, particularly the border between USA and Mexico, ... present a rich array of possibilities for crossing. Some of these possibilities are found in the TV show ... backdrop of economic exploitation made possible by neoliberal understandings of free trade, this popular ...
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  The Joke in SNL’s Big Boy Appliances and “Man Food” Marketing

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  Emily Contois The University of Tulsa

  February 13, 2019

  1 comment

  possibilities are part of larger social transformations involving gender, work, home, consumption, and power.     ...
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  The Unbingeable (or, Saying no to Netflix)

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  Neta Alexander Colgate University

  April 24, 2023

  possibility for viewers to reflect and slow down in a show exploring the cultural and social demand pushing ... the show and in Coel’s real life, the rapist was never caught, preventing the possibility of closure ... See Desiree Ibekwe, “Michaela Coel: ‘TV is unforgiving- but I’m built for this,’ Broadcast Now, 8 June ...
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  Re: Making the scripted more real? Pro wrestling and Twitter

  Thanks

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  Cory Barker Bradley University

  Wednesday, August 18, 2010 — 10:59 pm

  Thanks for the comments guys, I appreciate it. I am most intrigued by the story possibilities of ... really does open up the story for any number of possibilities. Though I wonder if the WWE and its more ...
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  Re: The Visibility of the Economy

  Art + Representation

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  Adam Cottrel Georgia State University

  Wednesday, September 17, 2014 — 5:08 pm

  mode of representation possible with images that circulate within wider, mainstream circuits (i.e., ... instagram, twitter, etc.), or would these modes of circulation evacuate the possibility for the seeable to ...
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  Action Tones

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  Eric LeMay Ohio University

  August 09, 2010

  6 comments

  new). I’m taken by this tonal element in Mann’s aesthetic not only for its own sake, but also as ...
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  Home Movies of the 1939 New York World's Fair

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  Caitlin McGrath University of Maryland

  October 18, 2012

  3 comments

  the typical visit to the Fair. The clip I’m sharing, however, does not fall prey to these filmmaking ...
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  Brought to You With Limited Commercial Interruption: The temporalities of online TV

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  JP Kelly Royal Holloway, University of London

  February 18, 2009

  5 comments

  temporalities of broadcast TV. It’s not just the possibility for viewers to reorganise the sequence of their ad ... accustomed to the shorter commercial breaks of online TV, it seems possible that more broadcasters will ...
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  How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the "Killer Condom"

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  Kaelin B.C. Alexander Cornell University

  March 19, 2009

  7 comments

  Bad Film Curator's Note Killer Condom (1996) is quite possibly the most pro-queer film of the ...
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  Louie's "God" As Cathartic Television

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  Kelli Marshall DePaul University

  March 22, 2012

  4 comments

  Louie's "God" As Cathartic Television television religion parenting louie god Curator's Note A scene that precedes this one from Louie 's episode "God" has been described as disturbing, graphic, creepy, and horrifying. I ...

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