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The Future of Historical Poetics—Now

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Colin Burnett Washington University in St. Louis

September 23, 2024

invention, made possible by copyright laws first passed in the 18 th and 19 th centuries. But the ...

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No Papers, Please: refusal as aesthetics in Vos papiers (ID, Please, 2013)

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Ry Montgomery The University of Cambridge

September 10, 2025

suggests one set of possible answers to these questions. In the documentary, seven trans participants are ...

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Perspectives on What Defines a True-Life Adaptation

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Fatima Litim Dark Wonder Productions

September 29, 2025

ethical responsibility of staying as close to the spirit of the truth as possible while still crafting ...

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Mirrors of Our World: Metaphor, Satire and Social Commentary in Editorial Cartoons and Memes

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Aseel Zibin University of Jordan

October 09, 2025

minimizing processing time. This means that they attempt to pack as much meaning and relevance as possible ...

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The Queer Animations of Barry JC Purves

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Ferdinando Cocco University of Cambridge

October 29, 2025

possibility of the mise en abîme shines through all of the four films Purves came to produce after Next: ...

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Serial Characterization and Inferred Interiority

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Jason Mittell Middlebury College

December 14, 2011

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Serial Characterization and Inferred Interiority seriality Popular Seriality interiority character Breaking Bad Curator's Note One great challenge facing moving image media is portraying a character’s interior thoughts and emotions. While literature ...

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Re: The Hidden Face of the Adult Film Industry

Transgressive outside, supported inside?

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Mary Erickson University of Oregon

Tuesday, May 3, 2011 — 9:09 pm

You’ve all brought up some great questions in relation to my post, and I definitely wanted to start to explore this topic more as I wrote this article. There are a lot of very interesting questions that don’t often get examined in relation to the adult fi ...

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Re: A hair of the dog that bit us

Affect, capitalism, & the big Outside

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Adrian Ivakhiv University of Vermont

Friday, September 2, 2011 — 7:11 pm

Thanks, Elena, for bringing up Leys' critique of the "new affect theorists"- and thanks, Michael, for bringing that into the conversation originally. I find Leys' article interesting and useful, not because she demolishes the Massumi-C ...

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Re: Digital Streaming Services in Turkey

Turkish originals outside Turkey?

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Lisa Patti Hobart and William Smith Colleges

Friday, April 6, 2018 — 2:37 pm

Thanks so much for this interesting post, Julide. How global has the circulation of the originals produced by PuhuTv and BluTv been? I'm wondering how the new regulation of streaming services will impact not only the production and circulation of the ...

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