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  BrainDead & the Horrors of Election 2016

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  Christina Knopf SUNY Cortland

  May 29, 2018

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  BrainDead & the Horrors of Election 2016 science-fiction Politics & Horror monstrosity election comedy-thriller BrainDead Curator's Note Discourse surrounding the 2016 presidential election cast Barack Obama as the antichrist, Hillary Clinton ...
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  Re: Beyond Broadcast: Launching NITV on Isuma TV

  Hi-speed video in low-speed communities

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  Norman Cohn Isuma University

  Wednesday, May 13, 2009 — 2:40 pm

  programs, to attract thewidest possible audience. No centralized pressure leads IsumaTV toward the ... multi-point transmission, including Live webcasting, making it possible for the first time for “dispersed and ...
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  Exposing Hollywood’s Atmospheric Operations: Notes on a New Form of Film Criticism

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  Steffen Hven Filmuniversity Babelsberg Konrad Wolf

  October 16, 2023

  a form of critical engagement possible that critiques affect by means of affect; or in this specific ... case, it renders possible a more general critique of cinema’s modes of atmosphere production by means of ...
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  Sounding the Alarm: Canadian Academics, American Reality TV Labor, and Constrained Participation

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  Wendy Peters Nipissing University

  November 17, 2025

  eighteen-hour drive north of Atlanta, Georgia. I had been excited by the possibility of travelling to Atlanta, ... and thus should have access to employee protections, including minimum wage and the possibility of ...
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  Lag(ging): Erykah Badu and J Dilla's Temporal Strategies 

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  Lynette Mawolu Dixon UCLA

  November 19, 2025

  performance/practice neo-soul Curator's Note “Liberation, if there is such a thing, is possible in the interval as ...  Therefore, within the lag before emancipation, Keeling identifies an opening, a space of possibility that ...
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  Filming/No Filming. Notes on the latest films of Hong Sang-soo

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  Sulgi Lie Bauhaus-University Weimar

  November 27, 2023

  viewer, who can imagine the unmade film as a possible film in the imagination. As is so often the case ... the visual, by means of which the idea of a possible film gains contour—a process that is also ... submerged in water or like a very nearsighted person without glasses. Autofictionally, it’s possible that ...
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  Montage Opaque

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  Adrian Martin Monash University & EQZE Film School

  May 02, 2024

  possible within digital software. [13] In a founding post-WWII text of montage speculation, Godard mused on ... teleological as you could possibly wish it to be, no matter how much wild, magical tinkering is possible in the ...
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  100 Years of Eternity (Between Cinema and Painting)

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  Jennifer J. Wild University of Southern California

  April 24, 2024

  possibilities of film when he went into the social space of the cinema while on leave from the front where, in ... possible. But to merely isolate a film from its position in one of Broodthaers’ site-specific matrices would ... possibility of a voyage through language which unties and reties the many operations by which the work is made ...
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  Not a Creature Type: Playing While Queer

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  Daren Fowler Georgia State University

  June 09, 2016

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  Not a Creature Type: Playing While Queer queerness Magic the Gathering Magic LGBTQ fandom auto-ethnography Curator's Note My two common experiences walking into my local card shop for Friday Night Magic are the faint but ever-present smell of week-ol ...
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  Westworld's computerized Future Past

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  Christopher Minz Georgia State University

  April 30, 2018

  3 comments

  Westworld's computerized Future Past Westworld's computerized Future Past Westworld Western Coding AI Curator's Note Carol Vernallis:  The opening credits raise questions about machines, minds, and intelligence. Leonardo de Assis claims tha ...

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