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Faking it

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Robert Cavanagh Northwestern University/New York Film Academy

Monday, April 2, 2012 — 10:12 pm

and cover their left side, an error that was exposed when the defensive lineman assigned to cover ... It was a possibility already inscribed in the game, although certainly not pre-determined. Clearly, ...

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‘Is He Safe?’: Trauma, Violence, and Fatherhood in Succession

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Jeremy Sarachan St. John Fisher University

April 18, 2022

perimeter—Logan addresses a potentially suicidal son in the most indirect way possible. Yet, in a moment during ... final episode of season three, All the Bells Say, the viewers are set up to side with Logan’s children ...

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Back to Nurture: Bear Bodies and The Tactile Tactics of Queer Masculinity

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Kaelin B.C. Alexander Cornell University

March 02, 2010

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by the restraints of a culture which, for possibly the first time, was coded as feminine. Through ... resist and side-step homonormative beauty standards—characterized by smooth, gym-toned bodies—as well as ... gentle, tender, and nurturing possibilities for male-male contact. This archive stands in stark contrast ...

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Bayonetta, Femme Disturbance, and AAA Queer Desires

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Amanda Phillips University of California, Davis

November 13, 2014

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This week, I’m contributing a critical fanvid made as part of my research work on the video game ...

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Re: Can the Sidekick Protest? The Dissonant Sidekick and the Limits of Representing Difference in Contemporary Media

sidekick containmment

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Daniel Keyes University of British Columbia

Tuesday, December 16, 2014 — 9:44 pm

I agree with Micheal's comment above that side kicks as an off shoot of the buddy film are ...

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Re: Reality TV in a War Zone

This clip was very

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Monday, April 30, 2007 — 3:21 am

This clip was very interesting. Im glad that the Iraqi people took an idea from Home Makeover here ...

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Re: What Happens When We Watch What Happens Live?, or The Aftershow as Critical Mediation

Fantastic post!

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Jacquelyn Arcy Saint Xavier University

Wednesday, April 27, 2016 — 2:14 pm

sheen of Bravo’s reality TV series, are part of the pleasure of watching Watch What Happens Live. I’m ...

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Re: From Cold War Alcoholism to Post-9/11 Patriotism: The Repurposing of David Bowie's '"Heroes'"

Hi Zack This is such a great

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Leanne Weston University of Warwick

Tuesday, May 3, 2016 — 2:17 pm

Hi Zack This is such a great choice. I’m so glad someone decided to post about David Bowie. ...

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Brought to You With Limited Commercial Interruption: The temporalities of online TV

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JP Kelly Royal Holloway, University of London

February 18, 2009

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temporalities of broadcast TV. It’s not just the possibility for viewers to reorganise the sequence of their ad ... accustomed to the shorter commercial breaks of online TV, it seems possible that more broadcasters will ...

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