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  "Running Wilde" and the State of Network Comedy

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  Michael Z. Newman University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee

  September 24, 2010

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  "Running Wilde" and the State of Network Comedy sitcom comedy runningwilde ... Curator's Note Here are some expository scenes of the new Fox sitcom, Running Wilde, with Will Arnett and ... better than others as effective ensembles.   Running Wilde seems less likely to make it to 100 episodes ...
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  Harry Potter and the Satanic Specters: The Franchise as Seen Through its Religious Metaliterature

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  Vincent Gonzalez UNC - Chapel Hill

  November 18, 2010

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  "fan-homiletics." And Luke Bell's explication of what he, as a monk, learned from the series makes innumerable ... learned to attend to fan-art, but we have not yet begun to take seriously the creativity in religious ...
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  Law in the Text

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  Tom Streeter University of Vermont

  August 27, 2010

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  It's a Wonderful Life (here, run backwards, for reasons that will soon become clear). The film, ... running the film in heavy rotation during the Christmas season as a cheap way to fill their airwaves. So ... legal force out of the shadows? Running the clip backwards, foregrounding the normally ignored legal ...
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  Timing Effects in "Many Worlds Mario"

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  Christopher Hagenah UC Santa Barbara

  May 10, 2010

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  experience of the normative “video game level” by compressing each failed run with the one successful run, by ... a normal level run (e.g. 2 minutes).    Second, it represents two opposing time schemes converging into one ... run the many layers of code.   Just as the logic of  “Many Worlds Mario” compresses the 20 minutes of ...
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  The Importance of [Seemingly Permeable] Boundaries at the Film Festival

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  Robert Moses Peaslee Texas Tech University

  September 16, 2010

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  the run-through, I sat in the interviewer’s chair as he sat in Ed’s. Also, during this interview, I am ... in the projection booth of the theater running the lights. In the second clip, Ed is on stage ...
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  “Proud Mary”: Glee’s Very Special Sham Disability Pride Anthem

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  David Kociemba Emerson College

  April 09, 2010

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  wheelchairs, audiences would never accept running in circles while gesturing as good show dance choreography. ... audiences to learn from the experience of those with disabilities in their Very Special Episode. ...
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  Following the Tiger Trail: The Public Trial of Tiger Woods

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  Brandeise Monk-Payton Brown University

  May 19, 2010

  2 comments

  minders were silent, allowing the news media to run wild with speculation about his personal issues. Woods ...
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  Feeling Place

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  Kevin Sanson UC Santa Barbara

  July 19, 2010

  7 comments

  incidental.   We briefly learn from the incessant (yet, fleeting) news coverage how to care about ...
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  History Repeats Itself?: How Wrestling Regards Its Performers

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  Bryan Alvarez Wrestling Observer/Figure Four Weekly

  August 20, 2010

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  last 100 years, one that stands out, particularly over the last two decades, is an inability to learn ... mid-30s, or even mid-40s.  This is not learning from history, but at least it's an example that ...
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  The Grain of Glee

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  Karen Tongson University of Southern California

  April 05, 2010

  7 comments

  run (in every sense of the word). While my co-contributors are sure to focus on various other musical ... numbers and scenes they've found both irritating and stimulating throughout Glee's brief run ...

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