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Between the Lines: Finding Feminist Possibility Spaces in Kathy Rain: A Detective is Born

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Andrea Braithwaite University of Ontario Institute of Technology

September 07, 2017

Between the Lines: Finding Feminist Possibility Spaces in Kathy Rain: A Detective is Born ... scholars call the “possibility space” – what a game makes possible, and impossible, through its design. For ... leave the biker bar, and we can’t say something conciliatory in response.It seems like less is possible ...

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“I wanna do a lot of things that don’t make sense”: Intimate Knowledge and Erotic Power

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Anna Lee Swan University of Washington

March 24, 2017

a stereotypical Black masculine façade, and instead explores the possibilities of the erotic as a way of knowing. ... becomes reassurance, and a touch becomes a caress. Temporarily outside the heteronormative patriarchal ... intervention in mainstream cinema. Lorde, Audre. Sister outsider: Essays and speeches. Crossing Press, 2007. ...

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Closure and Continuation in the Gilmore Girls Reboot

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Martin Zeller-Jacques Queen Margaret University

March 23, 2017

“Yeah?” “I’m pregnant.” This ending substitutes a grand authorial gesture for narrative closure. Palladino ... finishes the series on her own terms, yet also holds out the possibility of further stories of a new ...

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“Whatever's Happening, It’s Spreading”: The Stranger Things Legal Paratext

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Andrew Kemp Georgia State University

November 03, 2017

role (“I don’t want you to think I’m a total wastoid…”) and threats about the company’s legal team ... object for our heavily-surveilled media landscape. Netflix surely considered the possibility that the ...

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When news and drama compete for time: The Handmaid’s Tale’s release

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Sarah Arnold Maynooth University

April 24, 2017

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will be possible to watch it in many different ways. Caution was made against binge-watching by The ...

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Disruptive Disjunctions and The Handmaid’s Tale on Hulu

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Kevin McDonald Cal State Northridge

April 26, 2017

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should be consumed outside of outdated boundaries—based on platform-specificity, geography, or ...

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Flag as inappropriate: Confederate presence in subcultural contexts.

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Paul Glavey University of the Arts London

October 08, 2017

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cultural contexts has been well recorded, but outside the United States the flag became a well-used symbol ...

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Experiencing Gezi Protests through image: being away and being there

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Elif Binghamton University

May 16, 2017

people outside of Turkey were watching hundreds of their peers crossing the bridge, walking towards Gezi ... right here. Spectacle was creating its antithesis: concurrent spaces of experience where the outsiders ...

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New Asian American Documentary and its Archives

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Celine Parrenas Shimizu San Francisco State University

May 31, 2017

tradition outside of Chinatown as well as the emergence of a Chinese American middle class. The rescued ... a Chinese man and a white woman, casually holding their baby outside a church and children’s integration ...

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