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  ‘I’m Not a Homophobe, It’s Just Not Central to the Plot’: Colonizing Queer Spaces on Battlestar Galactica

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  Avi Santo Old Dominion University

  January 30, 2009

  ‘I’m Not a Homophobe, It’s Just Not Central to the Plot’: Colonizing Queer Spaces on Battlestar ... (and possibly in masking their homophobia). Where some producers in the 1970s sought to make TV ... a slippery means of transforming possible bigotries into matters of personal preference – for the plot ...
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  Rapping Up The Wire and the Limits of Plot Summary

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  Jason Mittell Middlebury College

  January 28, 2009

  expression that speak to both the constraints and possibilities of life in Baltimore. Sure, we care about how ...
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  Re: Sport from All Angles

  A few comments on new camera angles

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  Monica Schreiber Syracuse University Graduate Student

  Thursday, January 22, 2009 — 12:41 am

  experience, what we miss is that large picture of all the swimmers side by side surrounded everywhere by ...
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  Sport from All Angles

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  Doug Battema Western New England University

  January 20, 2009

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  Sport from All Angles televised sports Michael Phelps Beijing Olympics Curator's Note No figure dominated last year’s television sports landscape like Michael Phelps, winner of eight gold medals in swimming during the 2008 Beijing Olympics. None of P ...
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  Re: The Aesthetic of Disaster: Live, Broken, and Pretty

  I just wanted to inform

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  Michele White Tulane University

  Thursday, August 14, 2008 — 7:39 pm

  Joseph Street side windows of the Contemporary Arts Center, features FLOOD LINES lightwork installation ... to our possible futures and try to fix things. Something has changed from that moment when Spencer ...
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  Re: “‘Save Me Captain Stubing! Skeletor and The Lone Ranger have joined forces and are attacking the General Lee’: The place of play

  I'm trying to remember the

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  Tuesday, May 27, 2008 — 10:34 pm

  I'm trying to remember the details, but either Wizard or Toyfare magazine started running a genuinely hilarious series of photo-comics in the 1990s, combining characters from different comics and toy worlds, all represented by their respective figure ...
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  Re: “The Legend of G.I. Joe…New from Marvel Comics!”: The Toy as Comic Book on Television

  I'm not sure I have much to

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  Henry Jenkins Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism, University of Southern California

  Sunday, May 11, 2008 — 5:42 pm

  I'm not sure I have much to say in response to Will's question about America's Army, though it's an interesting one. Nothing I've read about America's Army makes any direct links back to G.I. Joe but it could not have been fa ...
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  Re: “‘Save Me Captain Stubing! Skeletor and The Lone Ranger have joined forces and are attacking the General Lee’: The place of play

  Don't forget the 1996

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  Derek Johnson University of Wisconsin, Madison

  Sunday, May 11, 2008 — 2:56 am

  unified, but to me it suggests the possibility that these toy companies perceived licenses across media ...
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  Re: “Sometimes My Kids Seem Like a Bunch of Kangaroos!”

  Henry, I'm really taken by

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  Derek Johnson University of Wisconsin, Madison

  Sunday, May 11, 2008 — 2:35 am

  Henry, I'm really taken by the way you emphasize the space of play in this piece, where these ads construct play space as one that encompasses the kitchen, the living room, and the back yard. today, I'd imagine that the internet and virtual spac ...
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  Re: “The Legend of G.I. Joe…New from Marvel Comics!”: The Toy as Comic Book on Television

  Thanks for the great

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  Derek Johnson University of Wisconsin, Madison

  Sunday, May 11, 2008 — 2:10 am

  I’m confident you’ve taken steps to keep that well preserved. What I find fascinating about things ... relationship of GI Joe to its social and political context. And while I’m not sure I’d characterize it as ...

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