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  Between the Lines: Finding Feminist Possibility Spaces in Kathy Rain: A Detective is Born

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  Andrea Braithwaite University of Ontario Institute of Technology

  September 07, 2017

  Between the Lines: Finding Feminist Possibility Spaces in Kathy Rain: A Detective is Born ... scholars call the “possibility space” – what a game makes possible, and impossible, through its design. For ... leave the biker bar, and we can’t say something conciliatory in response.It seems like less is possible ...
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  What Role for Government TV in Community Life?

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  Jeffrey P. Jones Old Dominion University

  February 29, 2008

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  seems ever more pressing—is it possible for citizens to know their local community through television? ... question I have for readers is so what? Even through this one-sided presentation that offers citizens ... won’t always be duped by one-sided appeals? Does hearing the city’s side of the issue still help us as ...
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  “Define Good”: The Anxious Pleasures of Subscribing to HBO

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  Avi Santo Old Dominion University

  April 13, 2007

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  and high-mindedness but must simultaneously seek out as many new subscribers as possible and continue ... hold of its patriarchal reigns by embracing its masochistic side and “taking it like a man”. Might HBO ...
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  The Winning Side?: Agent Harris and the FBI on HBO’s The Sopranos

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  Douglas Howard Suffolk County Community College

  June 27, 2007

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  The Winning Side?: Agent Harris and the FBI on HBO’s The Sopranos narrative ambiguity The ... Harris, like so many viewers, essentially been seduced into believing that Tony is on the winning side ...
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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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  “You Got No Idea What’s Goin’ On On That Island!”: What SNL Can Teach Us About Lost

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  Ivan Askwith Big Spaceship

  February 13, 2008

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  gender focus, but I’m willing to bet it’s not an accidental one.) ...
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  Flyting and Charisma in Assassin's Creed Valhalla

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  Steve Spence Clayton State University

  August 30, 2021

  and new outcomes, both in side quests and in the primary narrative. Valhalla is an open-world game, ... convince strangers to reveal secrets. Another benefit appears in the side quest “Permission to Weep,” which ...
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  Bamako

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  Olivier Tchouaffe University of Texas at Austin

  April 07, 2008

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  economic and social justice are at stake? Bamako sides with people by recognizing the necessity to go ...
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  Not Shock, But Confirmation: Rape as Ordinary Horror

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  Veronica Fitzpatrick University of Pittsburgh

  May 07, 2014

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  duration–what we see, how we see it, the challenges posed to seeing and the possible value of seeing said ...
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  Video game narrative imperatives

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  Richard Colby University of Denver

  September 10, 2017

  “save” the main quest to the end, or do you it quickly and then move on to the side quests? The larger ...

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