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  The Digital Crowd

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  Kartik Nair Temple University Philadelphia

  February 28, 2024

  a pre-defined set of possible movements, such as ambling, standing still, sitting, turning, or hand-raising. ... because each tiny trajectory lies outside” human control; “set in motion rather than moved, such objects ... digital extras: figures with no existence outside their algorithmic implementation by crowd simulation ...
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  Cozy Horror: Crow Country’s Cathartic Return to Playing Fear

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  Caleb Ward Georgia State University - Department of Communication

  November 14, 2024

  a full space connected to outside areas (unlike Crow Country), there remains a persistent possibility of ... just outside Atlanta, GA, following a scandalous injury on one of the rides. The game takes mechanical ... nostalgic  atmosphere by reviewers, and I’m inclined to agree. We might cite the game’s setting and subject, ...
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  Offering it up

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  Eugenie Brinkema Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  April 17, 2024

  the fact that it is possible to discern (to fantasize) in it the erotic practice to which one subjects ... cost of a newly uncomfortable position, offering a thigh up to a new proximity to and new possibility ... in re B ’s hand. We have all, probably, done both at different times, and know, I’m sure, the ...
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  John Woo Is God!”: David Bordwell, Popular Aesthetics, and Hong Kong Action Cinema

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  Henry Jenkins University of Southern California

  September 23, 2024

  stylistic accomplishments made it possible for him to appreciate popular films without preconceptions. Here, ... describes himself as an “interested outsider,” though I know he owned a large number of prints of kung fu ... over the cars parked outside the movie theater.”  Bordwell cared about films and about ideas about ...
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  The King's 289M Bodies: On Trump's Mug Shot and the Sovereign Image

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  Meghan Sutherland University of Toronto

  April 18, 2024

  above or outside the law: on the one hand, the now-explicitly evangelical rhetoric of his campaign ... Derrida summons the “worrying superposition of these two beings-outside-the-law or ‘without laws’ or ... a single sulfurous visage. To reckon with this difference is to take seriously the possibility that our ...
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  Oración para Marilyn Monroe

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  Sean Cubitt University of Melbourne

  May 01, 2024

  Ernesto Cardenal is far better known: the Nicaraguan poet and priest (I’m not sure whether it is his voice ...
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  The Religious Experience as Politics of Insurgency?

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  AbinashDashChoudhury University of Georgia

  December 02, 2024

  is the “report” he is writing to the mother) takes the plot forward: “Ammi, I’m sure I know him.” As ... this conception in the film is a rather easy and simple exploration of the  inside-outside  dichotomy ... the prince who will later become Buddha, is on a tour  outside  his palatial residence and he comes ...
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  Toward a New Particular Universal

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  Catherine Z. Sameh University of California - Irvine

  November 21, 2024

  horizon of political possibilities.    The slogan of the Kurdish women’s liberation movement—Jin, Jiyan, ... not deferred, very few lives and freedoms are possible. Creating the conditions to make her life ...
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  Hiding in Plain Sight: Blackamoors in Classical Hollywood Cinema

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  Susan Felleman University of South Carolina

  April 23, 2024

  memoir, “I’m told it’s not in good taste to wear Blackamoors anymore, but I think I’ll revive them. Why ... designers and set decorators—it is possible to detect some patterns in this set of films. In period films, ...
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  Abject Martyrdom_ Queer Becomings in João Pedro Rodrigues

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  Daren Fowler Georgia State University

  December 03, 2024

  Jarman, an erotic queer political imaginary. In each, Sebastian’s martyrdom opens possibilities of ... changed. I’m still me.” It’s true, certainly. We have not necessarily changed; we have just shared a new ...

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