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  Re: Body Body Body

  (im)mortal bodies

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  Sean Redmond Deakin University

  Thursday, April 21, 2016 — 9:58 pm

  What a fantastic piece of writing- really like the (co) synaesthetic nature of your response and the way bodies are seen to love and hate in intimate detail. The film is haunted by absent bodies and the bodies that have aged- these are bodies that are mor ...
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  What Happens When We Watch What Happens Live?, or The Aftershow as Critical Mediation

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  Jennifer S. Clark Fordham University

  April 21, 2016

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  What Happens When We Watch What Happens Live?, or The Aftershow as Critical Mediation Watch What Happens Live The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills reality TV labor Bravo After TV Curator's Note On the April 5, 2016 episode of Watch What Happens Live ...
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  Body Body Body

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  Amelie Hastie Amherst College

  April 21, 2016

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  Body Body Body Creed Ryan Coogler authorship Curator's Note In the 11th round of Adonis Creed’s fight against reigning champ “Pretty Ricky” Conlan, Rocky coaches him from the sidelines: “Body, body, body!” he shouts. This phrase — this repetition of ...
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  Your Legacy is More Than a Name: Creed and the Resurrection of the Boxing Film

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  Rebecca Sheehan United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney

  April 20, 2016

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  know I’m not a mistake.” The audience’s willingness to cheer for Donny matters more to the film’s ...
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  Ryan Coogler Gets in the Ring with Cultural Moynihanism in Fruitvale Station and Creed

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  Hannah Hamad University of East Anglia

  April 19, 2016

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  Ryan Coogler Gets in the Ring with Cultural Moynihanism in Fruitvale Station and Creed Ryan Coogler race masculinity Fruitvale Station fatherhood Creed Curator's Note Writer-director Ryan Coogler's inaugural feature Fruitvale Station, a dramatiz ...
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  “If I fight, you fight”: Sly Stallone and the aged action star’s triumphant submission in Creed

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  Glen Donnar RMIT University

  April 18, 2016

  9 comments

  “If I fight, you fight”: Sly Stallone and the aged action star’s triumphant submission in Creed Sylvester Stallone Rocky masculinity boxing film ageing action stardom 80s action Curator's Note The training montage is a genre staple of the boxing film ...
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  The best film artwork is *not* coming to a theater near you

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  Matthew Chojnacki Freelance

  April 15, 2016

  1 comment

  possible by simply asking (or begging) theater and video store managers for any leftovers. My favorite ...
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  Re: Anticipatory Media and Fan Produced Anticipation

  Motivations, posters and trailers...

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  Keith M. Johnston University of East Anglia

  Tuesday, April 12, 2016 — 12:33 pm

  expressing a character preference, simply sharing the excitement, or possibly passing for 'the ...
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  Re: Establishing a Saul Bass-line for Fan-Made Film Posters

  Saul Bass and film posters

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  Keith M. Johnston University of East Anglia

  Tuesday, April 12, 2016 — 12:21 pm

  alternate DVD covers rather than the posters and bus-sides that dominate modern poster dissemination? ...
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  Anticipatory Media and Fan Produced Anticipation

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  Keith M. Johnston University of East Anglia

  April 12, 2016

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  Anticipatory Media and Fan Produced Anticipation Fan-made posters Avengers Anticipatory Media Curator's Note The last decade has seen a huge rise in the frequency, availability and ubiquity of advance promotional materials such as film posters or tra ...

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