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  Soulful Cinema, an Instrument… A Weapon… and Probably a Hat

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  Corey Coach PhD

  March 27, 2026

  room acquire the title, but not others that offer a better sense of familiarity and togetherness?  I’m ... openness to all relations that would be possible within a Black world.[4] Such aliveness fundamentally ... possible by the affordances and limitations of the instrument used to depict it. Yet “more than ...
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  The (Black)Maternal Function and Opticality

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  Lizette London Emory University

  March 25, 2026

  and thus lens the (im)materiality of Blackness—whether in cinematic form or that which is created ...
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  Talk as Survival: Family Communication Patterns and Nontraditional Family Life in Shameless

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  Sumeyya Akdilek Texas Tech University

  April 02, 2026

  obligations with work and personal goals, often attempting to build stability outside the household while ... the family’s willingness to talk does not reliably translate into stable external support. Outside ...
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  Introduction to Special Issue on Audiovisual Criticism

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  Jane M. Gaines Columbia University

  January 23, 2026

  the traditional critic outside-the-text.  Third,  videographic criticism  has put moving image ... It therefore must be possible, Dyer thinks, “to critique affect by means of affect” (2017, 148). And ... “authorizing” such affective critique? If awe-struck veneration historically kept the critic outside or at ...
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  “The Instant in Which”: What Big Jet TV Livestreaming and TikTok Cat Videos Have in Common 

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  Jane M. Gaines Columbia University

  January 26, 2026

  was criticized for offering no “outside” to the point that there was no way out, everything being ... allow no “outside.” There may seem to be no “outside”; but in the following, the argument is that the ... up on the possibility of another “post-industrial accident,” the accident-prone jet invention ...
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  Uncertainty is the Point

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  Anna Winter MFA

  March 26, 2026

  opens up the possibility of making something that feels alive, something that couldn’t have been ...
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  Excavations and Confrontations with Labor in Kaori Oda's Aragane

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  Jarred Biederstaedt Georgia State University

  February 11, 2026

  unmotivated disruptive smears of light that occasionally reveals possible words within the frame questions the ... straight. The camera is positioned outside of the “action,”sitting low and behind. The viewer can see the ...
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  “See Me as I Feel You”: Manhunter (1986) and the Antagonistic use of The Prime Movers

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  Thomas Goodchild Georgia State University

  February 04, 2026

  outside. He then knocks on Reba’s door and declares, “Francis is gone forever.” What is so off-putting ...
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  Posterior Antagonisms in Larisa Shepitko's Heat (1962)

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  Jayson William Quearry GSU Perimeter College

  February 03, 2026

  uncommon at the time. However, here another possible antagonism arises. To satisfy industry standards, the ...
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  Never Have I Ever: Navigating the Autonomy-Connection Dialectic

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  Gianmarco Soares de Vargas Texas Tech University

  March 31, 2026

  lens, it's possible to find concepts that are not shown superficially. Analyzing media in this way ...

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