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  The Good Wife and Religion for Liberals

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  Jorie Lagerwey University College Dublin

  March 19, 2012

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  Wife demonstrates a side of religion rarely seen on TV. Here the secular liberal tries to make sense of ...
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  Louie's "God" As Cathartic Television

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  Kelli Marshall DePaul University

  March 22, 2012

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  Louie's "God" As Cathartic Television television religion parenting louie god Curator's Note A scene that precedes this one from Louie 's episode "God" has been described as disturbing, graphic, creepy, and horrifying. I ...
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  Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon: The Gender Politics of the Mother Daughter Bond

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  Virginia Kuhn University of Southern California

  March 26, 2012

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  Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon: The Gender Politics of the Mother Daughter Bond The Hunger Games motherhood heroines gender politics Curator's Note The release of  The Hunger Games  finds Jennifer Lawrence in her second coming-of-age role, playing ...
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  Adapting Trauma from Novel to Screen

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  Anna Froula East Carolina University

  March 27, 2012

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  Adapting Trauma from Novel to Screen trauma The Hunger Games PTSD combat adaptation Curator's Note Editor's note: Froula describes her reactions to the film, including references to departures from the book, and assumes knowledge of the first bo ...
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  Haymitch and the irredeemable character

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  Karen Petruska University of California, Santa Barbara

  Tuesday, March 27, 2012 — 4:31 pm

  of Haymitch.  He is the character that foreshadows Katniss' possible future--he continues to ... bleak is this portrayal when you consider the possible metaphor for our returning soldiers?   Many ...
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  physical trauma and Haymitch's casting

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  Charlotte Howell University of Texas at Austin

  Tuesday, March 27, 2012 — 6:15 pm

  Katniss' ghost of a possible future, and a terrifying one at that. ...
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  The Hunger Games, Battle Royale, and Transmedia Fan Regulation

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  Al Harahap University of Arizona

  March 29, 2012

  6 comments

  The Hunger Games, Battle Royale, and Transmedia Fan Regulation Battle Royale fan regulation intellectual property Marxist recuperation media regulation plagiarism The Hunger Games transmedia Curator's Note A blogger identifies striking similarities b ...
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  what are the stakes?

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  Karen Petruska University of California, Santa Barbara

  Friday, March 30, 2012 — 1:44 pm

  director's cut of Blade Runner, where the fans were outraged by a closing off of possible interpretations for ...
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  On the Surprise of the Game

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  Paul Eisenstein Otterbein University

  April 02, 2012

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  possibility of surprise. A game is never so anxiously enjoyable as when, but for this or that instance of ... possible in the opening of the game works in the favor of my team or in the other, this is why I watch.   ...
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  Faking it

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  Robert Cavanagh Northwestern University/New York Film Academy

  Monday, April 2, 2012 — 10:12 pm

  and cover their left side, an error that was exposed when the defensive lineman assigned to cover ... It was a possibility already inscribed in the game, although certainly not  pre-determined. Clearly, ...

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