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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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  Access and Usability: Connecting Archives to Platforms

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  Brennan Collins Georgia State University

  August 29, 2016

  allowing unprecedented possibilities for the public to interact with their archives. Previously, those ... government information. Hannah Palmer’s I’m From Here project, uses the ATLmaps platform to combine ...
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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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  Five Years of Cinema Journal In Focus at In Media Res

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  Christine Becker University of Notre Dame

  February 24, 2018

  conversation that isn’t possible in print form. Admittedly, the comments sections of In Focus posts on IMR ... mind, I’m excited to deliver to In Media Res readers this week a handful of previous posts that I think ...
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  Production as Feminist Activism: #TimesUp and Women Lead Production in Hollywood

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  Tanya D. Zuk, Ph.D. Georgia State University

  March 22, 2018

  production entrepreneurship as social change #TimesUp #Metoo Curator's Note I’m focusing on the ways in ... financially in order to continue to make content, as well as to have the largest impact possible, but it is ...
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  Re: Idiot Media: The Culture of NekNomination Videos

  Laughter

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  Jason Middleton University of Rochester

  Wednesday, May 28, 2014 — 4:57 pm

  for Freud signifies the ego overriding the superego, and a “repudiation of the possibility of ... foreground. So I’m left wondering whether this shift away from laughter/generic framing as comedy alters the ...
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  Re: Ritualistic Embodiment in Fever Ray's "When I Grow Up"

  I definitely think that Karin

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  Michael Frazer Auburn University

  Thursday, December 8, 2016 — 12:48 am

  spectacular, and the video is almost voyeuristic, possibly as a method of criticizing those entering into the ... the insider will know the purpose of the ritual intent. I’m trying to think of any example that ...
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  ‘I’m Not a Homophobe, It’s Just Not Central to the Plot’: Colonizing Queer Spaces on Battlestar Galactica

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  Avi Santo Old Dominion University

  January 30, 2009

  ‘I’m Not a Homophobe, It’s Just Not Central to the Plot’: Colonizing Queer Spaces on Battlestar ... (and possibly in masking their homophobia). Where some producers in the 1970s sought to make TV ... a slippery means of transforming possible bigotries into matters of personal preference – for the plot ...
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  Extreme Action at the Limits of Endurance

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  Adam Cottrel Georgia State University

  May 09, 2014

  4 comments

  or not, the goal is universally to seek out what is possible, to question limitations, and, ... for the heat; I’ve trained for the roads; but I’m just waiting to find out what the third thing is ... embrace extreme difficulty, to willingly seek out what is possible, to claim new potential where new ...

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