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Zombies and suspense

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Rossend Sanchez-Baro Universitat Pompeu Fabra

March 08, 2012

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without any prior clue, Lori says, “I’m pregnant”. In the television series, on the other hand, it is made ...

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(Asian American?) Hip Hop: Cool Calm Pete’s “Black Friday”

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Jane Park University of Oklahoma

April 29, 2008

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"represent" that aspect of his identity? On a side note, I also think it's quite telling with regard to ... the globalization (and to some extent deracialization- but not toward the side of default whiteness) ...

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“With all due respect, I’m far from a slut”, the hidden social justice advocate in Maury Povich

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Anonymous In Media Res Special Category

April 10, 2015

“With all due respect, I’m far from a slut”, the hidden social justice advocate in Maury Povich ... producer then comes to the stage (clearly a very educated person) and said “with all due respect, I’m far ...

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Free and Freer: WikiLeaks and ViCKi LEEKX

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Ivan Kreilkamp Indiana University

February 11, 2011

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swimming in an insurgent stream of privacy-unprotected data. “I’m not talking about getting it for free,” ... violent rounding-up of light-skinned red-heads into prison camps; “I’m talking about making it freer.” ...

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Sex and Screwball Comedy in The Good Wife

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Kelli Marshall DePaul University

October 14, 2011

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a conversation, she snaps, “I’m always astounded when a man like you expresses such unadulterated drivel.” He ... retorts quickly, “Funny. I’m never astounded when you do.” As in classical screwball comedies, this witty ...

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Re: 10am Carnaby Street: Kate Modern and the Ephemeralisation of Online Drama

Stunting, Archiving, and the Aesthetics of Ephemerality

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Max Dawson Indiana University

Tuesday, February 17, 2009 — 8:55 pm

introducing some of the themes that we will be exploring at Nottingham this summer. As I’m a little late to ... well-established stunting practices? As I’m assuming is the case for many people interested in online video, ...

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Stripped to the Bone

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Ramzi Fawaz University of Wisconsin-Madison

February 25, 2014

narrative, Wojnarowicz claims, “I’m a prisoner of language that doesn’t have a letter or a sign or gesture ... that approximates what I’m sensing.” Wojnarowicz’s statement speaks to the broader struggle of queer ...

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Queer Recalibration

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Quinn Miller University of Oregon

February 24, 2014

unintelligibility this Nick at Nite promo showcases. I’m a member of the “ TV generation ” that the network ... coextensive. Yet I’m still surprised by just how perceptively the network’s promotional material from the early ...

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