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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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  Unsportsmanlike Call

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  Cynthia Fuchs George Mason University

  January 22, 2009

  3 comments

  Unsportsmanlike Call penalty nfl eagles donovan mcnabb celebrity Curator's Note Donovan McNabb's celebration over his successful scamper to the sidelines drew criticism a couple of weekends ago. In just 30 seconds, the Fox clip includes the pena ...
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  Queer, There, Everywhere: Buying & Selling Citizenship on Gay Narrowcast TV

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  Hollis Griffin Denison University

  March 09, 2009

  5 comments

  Queer, There, Everywhere: Buying & Selling Citizenship on Gay Narrowcast TV queer niche narrowcasting LOGO here! gay consumer citizenship cable television Curator's Note In looking for instances of sexual and political agency, queer media critici ...
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  Dawn of the Dead (1978): Zombies and Human Nature

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  Kim Paffenroth Iona College

  September 30, 2009

  2 comments

  Dawn of the Dead (1978): Zombies and Human Nature Romero zombies undead Dawn of the Dead zombie films zombie movies Curator's Note Here we have the essence of George Romero’s zombies.It comes down to two aspects: 1) zombies are merely people;2) zombi ...
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  100 Years Later: Race and "The Fight of the Century"

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  Roopika Risam Emory University

  July 05, 2010

  4 comments

  100 Years Later: Race and "The Fight of the Century" sports race Jack Johnson boxing Curator's Note One hundred years ago, on July 4, 1910, boxers Jack Johnson and Jim Jeffries undertook "The Fight of the Century." While other mat ...
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  The Failure of Failure in Terriers

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  Jason Mittell Middlebury College

  April 18, 2011

  6 comments

  The Failure of Failure in Terriers working class TV Failure Terriers FX failure Curator's Note One of the taglines promoting FX's 2010 series Terriers read "Too Small to Fail," a reference to the perilous economic status of the central ...
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  Distorting the Pain of Others

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  Peter Snowdon MAD Faculty, PXL/University of Hasselt, Belgium

  April 04, 2014

  4 comments

  Distorting the Pain of Others Syria revolution distortion compression Circulating pain Curator's Note This video of two Syrian protesters being beaten up by pro-regime thugs in the Umayyad Mosque, Damascus, on 18 March 2011 demands our attention, bot ...
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  The Return of The X-Files: Will it Work?

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  Jesse Anderson-Lehman University of Pittsburgh

  June 15, 2015

  4 comments

  The Return of The X-Files: Will it Work? The X-Files Gillian Anderson FOX David Duchovny Curator's Note The X-Files is coming back, and the circumstances surrounding its return are pretty much exactly what you’d expect. Nerdist claims, with a shoutou ...
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  Stranger Things: Channeling Nostalgia/Challenging Nostalgia

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  Virginia Bonner Clayton State University

  September 14, 2016

  7 comments

  Stranger Things: Channeling Nostalgia/Challenging Nostalgia Stranger Things nostalgia GenX Curator's Note Stranger Things--an 8-hour trove of 80s-90s-00s quotations--has proven great fodder for nostalgia fans, particularly GenXers gleefully posting i ...

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