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  "One Turn of One Game": On Chance, Variance, and Misplays

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  Adam Cottrel Georgia State University

  June 10, 2016

  of the game’s most respected players, who is attempting to boost his resume for a possible induction ... certainty to a virtual possibility, turning victory into harrowing defeat. As the second clip reveals, ... virtual possibilities that contradict each other. ...
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  Re: Not a Creature Type: Playing While Queer

  Daren, I want to start with

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  Hannah Scharlin-Pettee Independent

  Thursday, June 9, 2016 — 10:37 pm

  abyssal-womb of sorts. I want to explore the possibility of Magic as an inherently queer game. The game ...
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  Not a Creature Type: Playing While Queer

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  Daren Fowler Georgia State University

  June 09, 2016

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  Not a Creature Type: Playing While Queer queerness Magic the Gathering Magic LGBTQ fandom auto-ethnography Curator's Note My two common experiences walking into my local card shop for Friday Night Magic are the faint but ever-present smell of week-ol ...
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  The Question Concerning Technological Humor

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  Aaron Dickinson Sachs Saint Mary's College of California

  June 07, 2016

  creating an instrument to suit our vision of a humorous world.   I’m left wondering, if it were possible to ...
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  Re: Trump audiences: Fired up! Ready to rumble!

  Good post Robert. I’m

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  Aaron Dickinson Sachs Saint Mary's College of California

  Thursday, June 2, 2016 — 8:40 pm

  Good post Robert. I'm interested in this question of audience/voting base. On the one hand, it seems like you're saying the violent audiences of Trump's rallies are going to be a problem for the Republicans as their brand becomes identified ...
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  Amy Schumer's Mirrors

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  Lisa Glebatis Perks Merrimack College

  June 02, 2016

  2 comments

  Amy Schumer's Mirrors Racial Stereotypes humor comedy as mirror comedy amy schumer Curator's Note Amy Schumer's rise in comedy coincided with allegations of racial and ethnic insensitivity. Stacey Patton and David J. Leonard wrote in The Wa ...
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  Trump audiences: Fired up! Ready to rumble!

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  Robert Spicer Millersville University

  June 02, 2016

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  Trump audiences: Fired up! Ready to rumble! Trump political violence masses mass culture audience studies Curator's Note In The Citizen Audience Richard Butsch discusses changing social norms surrounding theater audiences in mid-19 th century America ...
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  Re: Pretty Little Peaks: Policing the Gendered Boundary of Quality Television

  Assumptions on 'Teen TV' Audiences

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  Ross P Garner Cardiff University

  Friday, May 27, 2016 — 10:03 am

  'youth' segments (possibly mid-to-upper twenties) and this feeds in to the intertextual strategies used. ...
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  Interrogating Timelessness: Twin Peaks as "Classic" Television

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  Ross P Garner Cardiff University

  May 26, 2016

  Peaks is acknowledged as reconfiguring the aesthetic possibilities of prime time television drama during ...
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  Pretty Little Peaks: Policing the Gendered Boundary of Quality Television

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  Dana Och University of Pittsburgh

  May 25, 2016

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  Pretty Little Peaks: Policing the Gendered Boundary of Quality Television Twin Peaks soap opera Pretty Little Liars Homage cinema journal Curator's Note Twin Peaks (ABC, 1990–1991) is often invoked by critics in relation to any series that has a murd ...

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