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  Andy Samberg’s D-ck in a Book?: The Highs and Lows of Marketing Literature on the Internet

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  Hollis Griffin Denison University

  August 07, 2007

  York, its famously wealthy, overwhelmingly white Upper East Side, and that neighborhood's ...
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  Re: What Happens in Vegas

  I'm still catching up on

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  Derek Kompare Southern Methodist University

  Friday, August 3, 2007 — 6:36 pm

  I'm still catching up on seasons 5-7, and rewatching the entire run more closely, but my sense is that they've been fairly consistent on these counts throughout, taking in not only the attractions of the Strip, but other Vegas-tied factors (e.g. ...
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  Re: The Painful Pleasures of CSI: Miami

  Wow! I'm still picking my

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  Derek Kompare Southern Methodist University

  Friday, August 3, 2007 — 5:26 pm

  Wow! I'm still picking my jaw up off the floor. I've only ever seen a couple of episodes of CSI Miami, and now I remember why. You hit the nail on the head in terms of formula, to the degree that one could easily conceive of similar videos for e ...
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  Re: What Happens in Vegas

  It seemed to me that in the

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  Michael Peterson University of Wisconsin, Madison

  Wednesday, August 1, 2007 — 11:53 pm

  later seasons? Is this possibly partly in response to other Vegas shows/the hotness of Vegas in general ...
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  Re: What Happens in Vegas

  Great clip, Derek! I'm

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  Kathleen Fitzpatrick Michigan State University

  Tuesday, July 31, 2007 — 9:35 am

  Great clip, Derek! I'm fascinated by ways that the city gets used in the show as well, particularly in the contrasts between these late-night shots of the strip, the site we associate with Las Vegas, and the broad daylight shots of the places where p ...
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  What Happens in Vegas

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  Derek Kompare Southern Methodist University

  July 31, 2007

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  What Happens in Vegas CSI on location cultural geography Las Vegas space/place crime drama Curator's Note Television settings tend to be generic “spaces,” rather than “places.” Like the city of popular imagination, however, CSI ’s Las Vegas is a cruc ...
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  “It’s Our Job to Know Stuff”: The Epistemology of CSI

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  Kathleen Fitzpatrick Michigan State University

  July 30, 2007

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  possible precisely by the sophisticated computer simulations that Grissom eschews. The third clip is from ...
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  Of Niggas and Citizens: Mobilizing Strategies on The Boondocks and the Rhetoric of Blame

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  Avi Santo Old Dominion University

  July 27, 2007

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  itself. One possible explanation follows Kobena Mercer's argument that people of color experience ...
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  Re: On Political Satire: ‘Ha-Ha’ Funny or Contemptuously So?

  I agree that the individual

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  Avi Santo Old Dominion University

  Thursday, July 26, 2007 — 7:04 pm

  conflation there seems to be several possible relational positions that are produced: * The individual ...
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  On Political Satire: ‘Ha-Ha’ Funny or Contemptuously So?

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  Jeffrey P. Jones Old Dominion University

  July 24, 2007

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  On Political Satire: ‘Ha-Ha’ Funny or Contemptuously So? satire George W. Bush politics FOX fandom Comedy Central Gulliver’s Travels Half-Hour News Hour humor Daily Show Lil Bush criticism animation Little Rascals Jon Stewart contempt anti-fandom Rory Bre ...

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