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Re: Orphan Black and the Performance Text of Attractions

Long performances

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Justin Owen Rawlins The University of Tulsa

Monday, April 7, 2014 — 9:19 pm

I really like this piece, Colin. I'm struck by the possibilities that television's long ...

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Orphan Black and the Performance Text of Attractions

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R. Colin Tait Texas Christian University

April 07, 2014

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Orphan Black and the Performance Text of Attractions Television Acting Tatiana Maslany performance Orphan Black Curator's Note Quality Television depends on quality acting. Period. Though new titles in TV Studies scholarship- such as Elana Levine a ...

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Re: Distorting the Pain of Others

resistance

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

Saturday, April 5, 2014 — 12:11 pm

vision', and which here seems to embrace the control of hearing too. The flip side of the point raised by ...

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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

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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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Re: "Rape Culture" and the Social Media

As dead as...

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

Thursday, April 3, 2014 — 8:13 pm

trying to drain it of any possible power, let alone any power over him. In this sense, his display is ... violence against the other, the more obvious it becomes that his fantasy of power is the flip side of his ...

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Re: Idiot Media: The Culture of NekNomination Videos

Idiocy and Privacy

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Joss Hands Anglia Ruskin University

Thursday, April 3, 2014 — 3:27 pm

privatised life to the extent that no public life is really possible, that we are all 'idiots'- ...

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Re: The UFC’s Phantom Cam: Refining the Spectacle of Corporeal Damage and Durability

ambivalent viewing...

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Matthew Ferrari University of Massachusetts - Amherst

Thursday, April 3, 2014 — 12:51 pm

the flip side, my research also considers the ignoble-ing rhetoric employed by commentators and fans ...

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The UFC’s Phantom Cam: Refining the Spectacle of Corporeal Damage and Durability

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Matthew Ferrari University of Massachusetts - Amherst

April 03, 2014

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refined to their most valued (and possibly disturbing) imagery – while the brutality of actual duration ...

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Re: Idiot Media: The Culture of NekNomination Videos

(im)perturbable bodies...?

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Matthew Ferrari University of Massachusetts - Amherst

Wednesday, April 2, 2014 — 8:27 pm

Thank you Tanya and Tina for your post. I too immediately thought of Jackass as an intertext here. On one hand I do see the Jackass spinoff show, Wildboyz, as effectively a parody (and thus a kind of critique, if not exactly "resistance") of the ...

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Re: "Rape Culture" and the Social Media