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  Slick Moves: Queer Fight Choreography in The Transporter

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  Zachary Dorsey University of Texas at Austin

  December 05, 2007

  4 comments

  possible. Yuen’s inventive choice to add oil to the proceedings literally destabilizes this fight, and in so ...
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  Re: Slick Moves: Queer Fight Choreography in The Transporter

  Wow, that's a fascinating

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  Dana Heller Old Dominion University

  Wednesday, December 5, 2007 — 6:58 pm

  both dances--in term of narrative and movement--to be steeped in homoerotic possibility. But Danny and ... films as varied as WEST SIDE STORY, FIGHT CLUB and CROUCHING TIGER) as part of their charge in terms of ...
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  Re: You Can’t Stop the Beat – Dance: The Gen X Addiction

  I seems to be me that one of

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  Dana Heller Old Dominion University

  Wednesday, December 5, 2007 — 7:59 pm

  that carefully edited back-story segments do generate a pleasurable (and possibly questionable) sense ...
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  Re: Slick Moves: Queer Fight Choreography in The Transporter

  Great clip and interesting

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  Kelli Kilgore City of Virginia Beach

  Thursday, December 6, 2007 — 7:52 pm

  between two drag queens and possibly the irritating clapping sequence, set to a house beat, that Danny ...
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  Infinite Auditions: Dance as Data Set and Habit

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  Anna Beatrice Scott University of California -- Riverside

  December 07, 2007

  3 comments

  moving body apart, fixing joints as relational algorithmic equations and creating a database of possible ...
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  Re: Infinite Auditions: Dance as Data Set and Habit

  Thanks for posting this

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  Jane Desmond University of Illinois – Champaign Urbana

  Tuesday, December 11, 2007 — 8:24 pm

  there seem to be a limited number of moves available for selection through the up/down/side/side/ space ... is, the parameters that limit the improvization possibilities. Was it originally motion-capture? Based ... endlessly unrolling up/down side/side/ turn which is mesmerizing in itself. I wonder too about how we could ...
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  Re: Infinite Auditions: Dance as Data Set and Habit

  Thanks for responding, Jane.

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  Anna Beatrice Scott University of California -- Riverside

  Wednesday, December 12, 2007 — 7:47 am

  traveling without bodies poses some interesting issues for cultural formations: is it possible to learn new ...
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  Citizens’ Media in Southern Colombia

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  Clemencia Rodriguez University of Oklahoma

  December 13, 2007

  1 comment

  agricultural farmers as delinquents, this narrative rules out the possibility of linking illegal drug economies ... complicates the issue of coca cultivation; it denies the possibility of good guys and bad guys and simple ...
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  Of Scabs and Cats: The WGA’s Internet Campaign

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  Miranda Banks Loyola Marymount University

  December 17, 2007

  2 comments

  called off, the two sides have been strategizing on how best to sway public opinion. While the AMPTP has ... professional writers creating content for the Internet, the possibilities of the medium for entertainment—and ...
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  Re: Jesus 2.0: Christian Identity and Community on Godtube

  I'm trying to think through

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  Jonathan Gray University of Wisconsin - Madison

  Tuesday, December 18, 2007 — 6:49 am

  I'm trying to think through the parallel here of Mac = Christ-follower, and PC = Christian, and this sheds further light on why many Christians might feel threatened by it. As you note, the script of victimization is so prevalent, yet within the Mac/ ...

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