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  Racism, Postcolonialism, and Neocolonial Zombies: Resident Evil 5

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  Cathy Schlund-Vials University of Connecticut

  September 30, 2009

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  Racism, Postcolonialism, and Neocolonial Zombies: Resident Evil 5 racism zombies neocolonialism Resident Evil 5 Curator's Note Racism, Postcolonialism, and Neocolonial Zombies: Resident Evil 5    Released March 13, 2009, Capcom’s Resident Evil 5 was ...
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  Obama, Zombies, and Black Male Messiahs

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  Elizabeth McAlister Wesleyan University

  October 01, 2009

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  a black man, and not just because this makes him ‘different,’ but because it makes it possible to see that ...
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  Alternatives to Capitalism and Terrorism

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  Eric Hamako Shoreline Community College

  Friday, October 2, 2009 — 5:23 pm

   But, the alternatives it offers seem either bleak or fantastical.   On the bleak side, RE5 proposes ... fantastical side, RE5 offers gamers the opportunity to be the hero who saves the world from both White ...
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  “Is This My New TV?”: Divides in the Digital Transition

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  Caryn Murphy University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh

  October 05, 2009

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  “Is This My New TV?”: Divides in the Digital Transition digital transition digital divide broadcasting Curator's Note      This past spring I led a senior seminar examining changes in the television industry from the late 1980s to the digital transit ...
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  Another side to the "digital television divide"

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  Max Dawson Northwestern University

  Tuesday, October 6, 2009 — 3:11 am

  possibilities of digital broadcasting. When we consider the hardships that DTV is causing for stations in areas ...
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  Convert Now! Crowdsourcing DTV Outreach

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  Max Dawson Northwestern University

  October 07, 2009

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  many aspects of the implementation of DTV as possible to private-sphere partners ranging from ...
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  Wild Thing: HDTV and the Demasculinized Male Viewer

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  Marusya Bociurkiw Ryerson University, Toronto

  October 09, 2009

  1 comment

  demasculinization I’m noticing in HDTV ads? Many of the ads I’ve been looking at seem to crystallize what Jeanne ...
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  Re: Convert Now! Crowdsourcing DTV Outreach

  Max, I'm glad to see some

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  Marusya Bociurkiw Ryerson University, Toronto

  Monday, October 12, 2009 — 11:24 pm

  Max, I'm glad to see some ideological critique of HD conversion. As far back as the early 80's, some pundits suggested that HDTV would provide television audiences with such intense viewing experiences that audience members will want to continue ...
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  Disjuncture and Difference in The Amazing Race

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  Robert Moses Peaslee Texas Tech University

  October 13, 2009

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  understanding of the shifting “scapes” made possible in international media environments. It is an eloquent ...
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  "Would you like a treatment?": Dollhouse, pain, and memory

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  Erika Johnson-Lewis St. Petersburg College

  October 14, 2009

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  "Would you like a treatment?": Dollhouse, pain, and memory mediation Dollhouse pain programming blank slates Curator's Note The central premise of Dollhouse is that the human brain can be “wiped” of its original consciousness and a new cons ...

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