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Re: From ‘Heroes’ to ‘Zeroes’: Producing Fan Vids without Fans

Blurring Boundaries

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Elizabeth Evans University of Nottingham

Friday, February 20, 2009 — 2:55 pm

I’m sure fans will inevitably become (and possibly already are) savvy about what is going on. Do they ... established boundaries. I realise I’m not the first to say this but it’s something that has become apparent in ...

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Re: From ‘Heroes’ to ‘Zeroes’: Producing Fan Vids without Fans

The audience has become redundant

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Max Dawson Indiana University

Saturday, February 21, 2009 — 12:15 am

or-user generated content and/or the processes that produce them. The term I’m looking for would be the ... relations in which each side of this conjunction has become adept at deploying televisual and viral form to ...

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Masking the Difficulties of the Superhero Film Adaptation

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Greg M. Smith Georgia State University

February 23, 2009

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Masking the Difficulties of the Superhero Film Adaptation Spiderman mask Iron Man costume comic books adaptation Curator's Note It’s not surprising that Hollywood has turned to adapting comic book superhero stories. It’s rather more surprising that ...

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Viral Shock and Spectacle in the Policing of Borders: The Youtube Taser Death of Robert Dziekanski

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Tamara Vukov McGill University

February 24, 2009

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Viral Shock and Spectacle in the Policing of Borders: The Youtube Taser Death of Robert Dziekanski Curator's Note It may seem something of a strange choice to write an In Media Res commentary on a Youtube video that I personally find difficult to wat ...

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Re: Masking the Difficulties of the Superhero Film Adaptation

RE: MASK AS CHARACTER

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Greg M. Smith Georgia State University

Tuesday, February 24, 2009 — 3:28 pm

technologized visual equivalent of Matt Murdock's super-hearing (which also possibly helps to distract us ... inventive Iron Man solution). And it's certainly possible that a filmmaker can USE these difficulties ...

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The Virality of Hope: Shepard Fairey and Brand Obama

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Richard Edwards Ball State University

February 26, 2009

side-note in the video is that Fairey seems very concerned about being perceived as a propaganda artist ...

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The Terminal (revisited)

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J. Nicholson www.wlu.ca/arts/cs

Thursday, February 26, 2009 — 5:18 pm

trouble for airport security before finding a way out. Despite that the film is a comedy, it’s possible to ...

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The Digital Human Document

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Dan Leopard St. Mary’s College of California

March 02, 2009

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The Digital Human Document Visible Human Project new media documentary Curator's Note What interests me about the Visible Human Project (represented by the videos at left) is how it foreshadows changes in the notion of the “human” as documentary evid ...

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