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  Re: From Cold War Alcoholism to Post-9/11 Patriotism: The Repurposing of David Bowie's '"Heroes'"

  Hi Zack This is such a great

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  Leanne Weston University of Warwick

  Tuesday, May 3, 2016 — 2:17 pm

  Hi Zack This is such a great choice. I’m so glad someone decided to post about David Bowie. ...
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  From Cold War Alcoholism to Post-9/11 Patriotism: The Repurposing of David Bowie's '"Heroes'"

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  Zack Stiegler Indiana University of Pennsylvania

  May 03, 2016

  8 comments

  preceded in the set by 1997’s “I’m Afraid of Americans,” Bowie often prefaced ‘”Heroes’” by telling ... audiences on his 2003-2004 Reality tour that “This is the other side of that same story, this one’s for ...
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  Re: Harmonies of Discord: Pop Oldies and Horror Trailers

  Audience

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  Aaron Dickinson Sachs Saint Mary's College of California

  Monday, May 2, 2016 — 3:12 pm

  knowledge? My sense of horror films is that the audience tends to be on the younger side and more male than ...
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  Harmonies of Discord: Pop Oldies and Horror Trailers

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  Leanne Weston University of Warwick

  May 02, 2016

  8 comments

  Harmonies of Discord: Pop Oldies and Horror Trailers soundtrack pop songs nostalgia horror cinema aesthetics Curator's Note The use of oldies and covers of oldies in trailers is not a new phenomenon. However, the harmonious discord at work when oldie ...
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  Re: What Happens When We Watch What Happens Live?, or The Aftershow as Critical Mediation

  Fantastic post!

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  Jacquelyn Arcy Saint Xavier University

  Wednesday, April 27, 2016 — 2:14 pm

  sheen of Bravo’s reality TV series, are part of the pleasure of watching Watch What Happens Live. I’m ...
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  Second Screen and Social Media Audience Interactivity on AMC’s Talking Dead

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  Sabrina Pasztor and Jenny Korn University of Southern California and UIC

  April 27, 2016

  confined their interaction in one-sided communication or parasociality (Horton & Wohl, 1956). AMC’s ...
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  Re: Austerity Lustre: The Fight in Creed

  The motorcycle scene and the talented tenth

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  Rebecca Sheehan United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney

  Tuesday, April 26, 2016 — 2:30 am

  economics, that undermines some of the film's more radical possibilities. Or is that inevitable when ...
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  Re: “If I fight, you fight”: Sly Stallone and the aged action star’s triumphant submission in Creed

  Johnson-Creed

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  Rebecca Sheehan United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney

  Tuesday, April 26, 2016 — 1:41 am

  remain a Johnson is interesting. I wonder here if there are possibilities for teasing this out further. ...
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  Re: Ryan Coogler Gets in the Ring with Cultural Moynihanism in Fruitvale Station and Creed

  Patriarchs and matriarchs

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  Rebecca Sheehan United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney

  Tuesday, April 26, 2016 — 1:26 am

  the discussion between you and Sean, I take your point about the side-stepping of the realities of ...
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  Austerity Lustre: The Fight in Creed

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  Sean Redmond Deakin University

  April 22, 2016

  11 comments

  Austerity Lustre: The Fight in Creed the ghetto legacy austerity Curator's Note He just fights all the time Creed speaks to the post GFC crisis and the politics of austerity. Legacy in the film isn’t simply patriarchal, familial, nor a film franchise ...

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