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Hot In Cleveland: Betty Does Disney

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July 13, 2010

Hot In Cleveland: Betty Does Disney sitcom Hot In Cleveland Disney Curator's Note One of the most successful shows of the summer is Hot in Cleveland, the first original sitcom produced by TV Land, which has just been renewed for 20 more episodes. Apa ...

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Re: Westen Meets Lawson: Formula as Brand and the Potential of a USA Network Genre

Psych

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Charlotte Howell University of Texas at Austin

Monday, July 12, 2010 — 6:12 pm

Psych is light as air. To err on the side of too light and breezy will hardly change the "blue ... skies" convention of USA shows (and their possible genre). Psych, I think, helped USA to realize that ...

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Westen Meets Lawson: Formula as Brand and the Potential of a USA Network Genre

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Charlotte Howell University of Texas at Austin

July 12, 2010

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exemplar of the (possible) USA Network genre. It uses the formula of Burn Notice and reproduces much of its ...

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Re: Bollywood Brokeback Bromance: India's First Onscreen Gay Kiss?

An answer re: an "answer"

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Samir Dayal Bentley University

Sunday, July 11, 2010 — 1:44 am

possible costs of buying into the supporting logic is that in positioning the film as an "answer" ...

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Finding Cullen Jones: The Complicated Position of Race in Swimming

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Emily Newman St Cloud State University

July 07, 2010

had gone to the side of the pool. In doing so, he completely missed the initial celebration and ...

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Bollywood Brokeback Bromance: India's First Onscreen Gay Kiss?

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Samir Dayal Bentley University

June 21, 2010

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a non-issue, even as it deploys the figure of lesbian love, possibly to establish a vaguely “feminist” ...

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Re: We Want You: Transmedia Performances of Fan Devotion, Desire, and Domination

Hi Lindsay—Thanks for the

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Louisa Stein Middlebury College

Saturday, June 19, 2010 — 1:32 am

decentered (or re-centered around a side character) community as a possibly destablizing factor? ... community authoring its understanding of itself does indeed encompass both sides. It seems to me that this ...

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Re: We Want You: Transmedia Performances of Fan Devotion, Desire, and Domination

I’m so glad you’re bringing

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Kristina Busse Independent Scholar

Friday, June 18, 2010 — 10:01 pm

I'm so glad you're bringing up all these issues. Louisa and i talked last night and both thought that we somehow needed to make clear that there was a reason Louisa's vid went last, that the week was thematically related but also, maybe, i ...

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We Want You: Transmedia Performances of Fan Devotion, Desire, and Domination

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Louisa Stein Middlebury College

June 18, 2010

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We Want You: Transmedia Performances of Fan Devotion, Desire, and Domination twitter transmedia fandom fan video fan authorship celebrity Curator's Note Supernatural guest star turned series regular, Misha Collins, has used twitter to mobilize a voca ...

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Re: 'Crying for Justin Bieber' and Negotiating Affective Fan Performance