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  Pedagogical Empathy and Kindness as Affect in the Great British Bake Off

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  Gabriel Huddleston Texas Christian University

  February 10, 2017

  baking with the hopes that competitors “learn” to be better bakers and, therefore, better versions of ... seems to want contestants to succeed and learn about baking rather than stoke competitive flames in the ... of the cake but remain open to the opportunity to learn more.   ...
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  The Aesthetics of the Black Interior

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  Evan Litwack University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

  April 12, 2017

  through the first act of Barry Jenkins’ exquisite film Moonlight. Juan, we learn, first encountered these ... course, is a lesson that Chiron himself is already learning. After all, the joy that he harbors as he ... learns to swim is, if nothing else, a studied refusal of the generic definitions of what it looks to feel ...
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  Fansub Culture: The Rhetorical Dance Between Copyright and Fan-Production

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  Rob Baron Austin Peay State University

  January 11, 2017

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  current seasons of two long-running Japanese children’s television franchises: Super Sentai and Kamen ...
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  Spike Lee: Selling the Black Aesthetic

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  Ruth Doughty Liverpool John Moores University

  December 10, 2017

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  epitomises a running theme throughout the Netflix series: the gentrification of Fort Greene. It is this ...
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  Navigating Emotional Landscapes through DIY Cartography in Stranger Things Season 2

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  Mihaela Mihailova San Francisco State University

  December 15, 2017

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  Stranger Things follows the formal threads of the show’s pilot run. On a narrative level, much of the ... viewers to a problem-solving montage of Joyce, Will and Mike running around the apartment with measuring ...
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  Closure and Continuation in the Gilmore Girls Reboot

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  Martin Zeller-Jacques Queen Margaret University

  March 23, 2017

  opportunity to return to the helm After the Sixth Season of the original run of Gilmore Girls, Palladino’s ... contract wasn’t renewed by the CW. The Seventh Season, run by David S. Rosenthal, proved divisive among the ...
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  Torrey Pines and the Transgender Time Traveler

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  Evelyn Deshane Waterloo University

  March 27, 2017

  a new world of memory for the hour and a half that the movie runs. When he's in Torrey Pines, ... that his younger self, the girl who resembles Alice in Wonderland, is running late because Clyde is ...
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  Born To Follow: The Similarities Between Postcolonial And American Travel Narratives

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  Andy Fischer Wright University of Texas at Austin

  November 12, 2017

  those who run out of necessity. To illustrate this point, let's take a look at two movies: Touki ... the boat to France; instead, he runs back to his bike and the automobility he has used to navigate his ...
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  When imperfect can be perfect: Lessons learned from Carrie Fisher's life and death

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  Kelly Tenzek & James Carviou University at Buffalo/Missouri Western State University

  September 19, 2017

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  When imperfect can be perfect: Lessons learned from Carrie Fisher's life and death Billie ... fans responded. What can we learn from a celebrity’s life and death? Fisher was born into a family of ...
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  The Post-Truth World – Notes from the Occult (on our cybernetic present)

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  Robert Wright University of Wolverhampton

  January 28, 2017

  living in an information age we need to learn what that entails. The founder of cybernetics himself, ... broken the spell of the cyber-utopians and we should now hopefully learn that online ‘We are as wizards, ...

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