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  Where Stories Rest: Encountering Community and Memory

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  Jennifer Blanks Texas A&M University

  February 18, 2026

  proximity—siblings side by side, parents anchoring generations. Headstones themselves act as identifiers, their ...
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  You Can’t Unfuck a Myth-Poetic: (failed?) Antagonism in Battle in Heaven

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  Christopher Minz Georgia State University

  February 10, 2026

  celebratory, for Marcos, empty—masturbatory, one-sided joy sans object, a cognitive map with no route marked. ...
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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 ... perception. As the drill pushes into the earth,  the side of the machine drifts past the frame. Its bits and ...
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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 13, 2026

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

  up on the possibility of another “post-industrial accident,” the accident-prone jet invention ... accumulation of contradictory possibilities and ambivalent feelings in what he calls the “vertical dimension.” ... of the possibilities (this or that) are placed, one on top of the other, all the better to be packed ...
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  Introduction to Special Issue on Audiovisual Criticism

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  Jane M. Gaines Columbia University

  January 23, 2026

  It therefore must be possible, Dyer thinks, “to critique affect by means of affect” (2017, 148). And ... down meaning —yet words in combination with images also open up new conceptual possibilities.  Thinking ... forward? To return to my initial reference to videographic variations as possible new forms of  academic ...