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  Re: Okaeri: Living with your favorite character

  Great piece! I'm particularly

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  Andrew Kemp Georgia State University

  Monday, April 1, 2019 — 1:48 pm

  Great piece! I'm particularly fascinated by the technology's modes of blurring the private and public sphere. The fact that the character can ask for you to come home early to spend time with her is such a specific, and even romantic, choice tha ...
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  Re: Okaeri: Living with your favorite character

  Really fascinating piece. I'm

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  Alexander Svensson Indiana University, Bloomington

  Wednesday, April 3, 2019 — 5:52 pm

  Really fascinating piece. I'm particularly struck by the loneliness and melancholic nature of these commericials; the male users are not only all shown to be living by themselves at home, but also seem to be distanced from and isolated amonst the cro ...
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  Re: Breaking Upwards: The Creative Uncoupling of Desiree Akhavan and Ingrid Jungermann

  Maria, I'm quite taken with

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  Colleen Laird University of British Columbia

  Thursday, November 14, 2019 — 9:10 pm

  Maria, I'm quite taken with the metaphors you are employing to think about our relationship with authorship! You've provided such a nice conpliment to Casey's writeup on Sunday. Borrowing your metaphors, I'm now thinking of the marketa ...
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  Re: Quantum of Solace, a dull reality

  I'll admit it, I'm a Quantum fan

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  Jayson Quearry Georgia State University

  Friday, November 6, 2020 — 10:27 pm

  I have always been a pretty stanch  Quantum of Solace  supporter, so I'm really happy to hear it improved on a rewatch for you, Daniel.  That one-two punch of  Casino  and  Quantum  might be the most emotionally resonant pairing in the entire Bond ca ...
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  The Conundrum of the Character-Driven Plot in Lost

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  Stacey Abbott Roehampton University

  February 13, 2008

  12 comments

  The Conundrum of the Character-Driven Plot in Lost Lost narrative cult fan videos character-driven plots Curator's Note Lost is a conundrum. Its phenomenal success positions it squarely within mainstream television while its enigmatic and seemingly s ...
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  BABEL and Film Authorship

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  Virginia Wright Wexman Northwestern University

  February 27, 2010

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  BABEL and Film Authorship collaboration BABEL authorship auteurism Curator's Note As a way of directing attention to often-overlooked craftspeople who work in mainstream movies, we are offering several readings of this sequence from the 2007 film Bab ...
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  Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon: The Gender Politics of the Mother Daughter Bond

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  Virginia Kuhn University of Southern California

  March 26, 2012

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  Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon: The Gender Politics of the Mother Daughter Bond The Hunger Games motherhood heroines gender politics Curator's Note The release of  The Hunger Games  finds Jennifer Lawrence in her second coming-of-age role, playing ...
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  Lady Gaga's Phallicity

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  Karin Sellberg and Michael O'Rourke The University of Queensland; Independent Colleges Dublin

  August 05, 2010

  7 comments

  Lady Gaga's Phallicity gender Lady Gaga phallus queer telephone Curator's Note What has Lady Gaga got to do with the future of queer theory, gender theory and the phallus? We argue that the first 2 minutes and 13 seconds of the uncut version of ...
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  Owning Her Abjection: Lena Dunham's Queer Feminist Sexual Politics

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  Maria San Filippo Emerson College

  January 07, 2013

  15 comments

  Owning Her Abjection: Lena Dunham's Queer Feminist Sexual Politics Catherine Breillat feminist girls HBO Julia Kristeva Lena Dunham nudity queer the abject the body Curator's Note From the 2007 YouTube short featuring her bikini-clad and brushin ...
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  “Barack OBollywood”: Afro-Asian Connections on the Viral Video Trail

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  Shalini Shankar Northwestern University

  April 30, 2008

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  “Barack OBollywood”: Afro-Asian Connections on the Viral Video Trail Youtube viral video United States race President politics masculinity elections CamPain 2008 Bollywood Asian American Curator's Note In December 2007, 22 year old white American vir ...

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