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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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  Re: The Conundrum of the Character-Driven Plot in Lost

  As an academic, I'm well

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  Will Brooker Kingston University

  Wednesday, February 13, 2008 — 12:27 pm

  As an academic, I'm well used to videos where fans cleverly select from the official text to support their own reading. But watching this, I found myself responding with mild outrage (even while I admired the execution) and mockery... as a Sawyer fan ...
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  Re: The Conundrum of the Character-Driven Plot in Lost

  I agree with Julian's

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  Stacey Abbott Roehampton University

  Wednesday, February 13, 2008 — 3:52 pm

  still conforms to the series triangular narrative and comes down on the side of Jate over Skate. It ...
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  Re: “You Got No Idea What’s Goin’ On On That Island!”: What SNL Can Teach Us About Lost

  As a side-note, I'm

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  Will Brooker Kingston University

  Wednesday, February 13, 2008 — 9:50 pm

  As a side-note, I'm genuinely surprised (perhaps I shouldn't be) that of the four clips ...
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  Lost is a Four Letter Word

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  Julian Stringer University of Nottingham

  February 14, 2008

  3 comments

  Lost is a Four Letter Word Lost narrative global/local Franco Moretti literary theory media capitals Hawaii on location Oahu cultural geography Curator's Note Franco Moretti writes that in literary works “each space determines, or at least encourages ...
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  Re: Lost is a Four Letter Word

  Fascinating (and now four

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  Will Brooker Kingston University

  Thursday, February 14, 2008 — 12:17 pm

  LOTR and NZ? Finally, the possible link between the Pearl Station and Pearl Harbor never stuck me ...
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  Mothers and Daughters: Watching The Gilmore Girls

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  Barbara Selznick University of Arizona

  February 19, 2008

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  Mothers and Daughters: Watching The Gilmore Girls gender representation WB melodrama Gilmore Girls auto-ethnography affect motherhood ideology guilty pleasures Curator's Note I wait until late in the semester to tell my students that I was a loyal vi ...
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  Re: Mothers and Daughters: Watching The Gilmore Girls

  I find it interesting that,

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  Dan Leopard St. Mary’s College of California

  Tuesday, February 19, 2008 — 8:38 pm

  father as symbolic of a possibly similar coming to terms between a more advanced civilization and ours. ...
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  Transgression, Confession, and Ying Yang Twins’s “Wait (The Whisper Song)”

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  Michael Z. Newman University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee

  February 20, 2008

  1 comment

  cultural values and norms. I think this last benefit in particular is what I’m getting from telling you how ...
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  Re: Carl Sagan’s Contact

  I'm intrigued by the way

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  Jeremy Butler University of Alabama

  Thursday, February 21, 2008 — 3:49 am

  I'm intrigued by the way that Dan has recast the notion of guilt to include shame for taking pleasure in the mediocre, for a guilty pleasure that most would think is "pleasure sans guilt." In CONTACT, we have a film that garnered mostly pos ...

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