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  Losing My Imagination

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  Adam Cottrel Georgia State University

  January 01, 2015

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  me as so poignant here is how Pee-Wee’s imagination runs seamlessly from his unconscious to conscious ... is stolen and he must learn to deal with the harsh realities of life: loss, deception, and ... humiliation. Growing up means, in part, learning to come to terms with the irreparable rift within us; that the ...
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  Post- Apocalyptic Simulation and the Neoliberalist legacy in Bear Grylls: Running Wild

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  Amy McKeon University College Dublin

  December 11, 2015

  Post- Apocalyptic Simulation and the Neoliberalist legacy in Bear Grylls: Running Wild survivalist ... separate, until 2014’s Running Wild With Bear Grylls. Running Wild poses the curious collision of dystopian ... cause. Running Wild utilises year zero depictions of nature, and obfuscation of celebrity from personal ...
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  Batgirl and Feminism: the 1972 Equal Pay Act PSA

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  Will Brooker Kingston University, London

  February 04, 2015

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  in 1972 she tells Jim Gordon ‘Dad, I want your job!’, as she announces her campaign to run for ... early 1970s. ‘Women must learn their own history,’ stated a feminist manifesto from 1968, ‘because they ...
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  The Colbert Report as Millennial Pedagogy

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  Garret Castleberry Mid-America Christian University

  September 03, 2015

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  lessons in the ethics of plagiarism that communicates across multiple learning styles. As trickster ... his own authority in a hybrid archetype between fool-sage. The audience learns without learning ...
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  Mascot Life

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  Eleanor Huntington University of Southern California

  April 28, 2015

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  year a new group of mascots learns how to best promote their schools’ athletic departments. They ... of the official training, the mascot will learn the institution’s social media policies and be ...
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  The Return of The X-Files: Will it Work?

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  Jesse Anderson-Lehman University of Pittsburgh

  June 15, 2015

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  David Duchovny, after a long run on Californication, seems to be milking this publicity for all it’s ... Carter has been retrieved from relative obscurity to run the show; the logistics of working around ... run, with the pilot set to air on January 24th, 2016. That all being said, how much of the original ...
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  "I am a Real (White) American": Hulk Hogan and the Rhetoric of Americanism in the Post-Cold War Era

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  Nick Rangel Houston Community College

  October 09, 2015

  face protagonist challenging all manner of foes. Hogan’s first major run headlining in the World ... first title run were largely white males for whom ethnicity was not emphasized (1). This is particularly ... a notable accent. Hogan’s third run with the title occurred after a title reign by his fellow babyface rival ...
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  The Podcast and the Public Conversation: Considering the Slate Political Gabfest

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  Jeff Casey University of Wisconsin-Madison

  May 19, 2015

  continues to invest in podcasts. Its longest running podcast, the Political Gabfest weekly covers three ... they cost little to produce and distribute, can be relatively long-running, and need only attract ...
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  Super Friends, Trans-Thematic Media Branding, and the 1970s/80s Team-Based Superhero

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  Ian Peters University of North Georgia

  October 20, 2015

  1 comment

  series Super Friends began a 9-season run on television that defined the genre for a generation of ... have several tie-ins during its original run, including a DC-produced comic, the cartoon is effectively ...
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  The Natives Are Restless in Disney’s Jungle Cruise

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  Melanie Wolske California State University Long Beach

  June 09, 2015

  6 comments

  savages that run through the jungle, threaten white people and may even devour them. Up to this day, such ...

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