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  Mirrors of Our World: Metaphor, Satire and Social Commentary in Editorial Cartoons and Memes

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  Aseel Zibin University of Jordan

  October 09, 2025

  minimizing processing time. This means that they attempt to pack as much meaning and relevance as possible ...
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  The Queer Animations of Barry JC Purves

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  Ferdinando Cocco University of Cambridge

  October 29, 2025

  possibility of the mise en abîme shines through all of the four films Purves came to produce after  Next: ...
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  Serial Characterization and Inferred Interiority

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  Jason Mittell Middlebury College

  December 14, 2011

  12 comments

  Serial Characterization and Inferred Interiority seriality Popular Seriality interiority character Breaking Bad Curator's Note One great challenge facing moving image media is portraying a character’s interior thoughts and emotions. While literature ...
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  Re: A mother Tigress and her Tiger cub

  The Flip Side of Motherize Is Infantilize

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  Samir Dayal Bentley University

  Thursday, December 1, 2011 — 3:48 pm

  Hi Hinda:   Enjoyed your witty contribution.  In the light of what you say, isn't an implication that the "athlete-husband" is infantilized as he (since it is usually a he) motherizes his wife or in Woods' case " mujerizes " ...
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  Re: Dance, Girl, Dance!: Performance & Class Mobility in Disney’s Shake It Up

  Random side-note

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  Cory Barker Bradley University

  Tuesday, September 11, 2012 — 6:43 pm

  Great post Morgan. One thing that you mentioned that isn't necessarily the drive of your piece, but really interested me: So many of Disney (and Nick's, I think) characters in these sitcoms are gridin' to be noticed, to be stars, etc. From ...
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  Re-contextualizing Archives

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  Laurie N. Taylor University of Florida

  March 24, 2008

  2 comments

  Re-contextualizing Archives Youtube marketing archiving copyright Web 2.0 Unilever Dove soap finding aids remixing Massive data storage digital archives response videos Onslaught Curator's Note “A Message from Unilever,” posted to YouTube on October ...
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  The Last Lion King of Scotland

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  Davis Jung Brown University

  April 12, 2007

  5 comments

  The Last Lion King of Scotland Africa representation stereotyping mashup praxis Lion King Last King of Scotland Must Love Jaws Ten Things I Hate About Commandments deconstruction Curator's Note With the age of the internet and such websites as YouTub ...
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  Can activists prank us to a better society?

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  Afsheen Nomai University of Texas at Austin

  October 24, 2007

  3 comments

  Can activists prank us to a better society? journalism culture jamming Yes Men media activism tactics prank Curator's Note Watching Yes Men member Andy Bichlbaum perform this interview, I am first struck by the sheer bravado of the prank. Here he is, ...
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  YouTube, Presidential Debates, & YouRhetoric

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  Dave Parry University of Texas at Dallas

  October 10, 2007

  3 comments

  YouTube, Presidential Debates, & YouRhetoric Youtube politics President participation digital citizenship debates Kennedy/Nixon rhetoric election Curator's Note Mass Media has often played a crucial role in how we elect our politicians, and speci ...
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  Queer Privates, Public Protests

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  Queers for Public Education Toby Beauchamp, Abigail Boggs, Cynthia C. Degnan, and Liz Montegary -- University of California, Davis

  May 03, 2010

  2 comments

  Queer Privates, Public Protests violence university queer privatization education california Curator's Note Please note: this video includes visual documentation of police violence. This issue of In Media Res is inspired by the fourth annual Queer St ...

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