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  Run Faster: The Racial Politics of John Singleton

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  Kyle Barrowman DePaul University

  November 10, 2020

  Run Faster: The Racial Politics of John Singleton utopia H.G. Wells Black Hollywood Black film ... Learning (1995), Singleton uses the sage-like characters played by Laurence Fishburne – insurance salesman ... acquiesce to lives of drug dealing and violence. But even more profound are the scenes from Higher Learning ...
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  Spider-Man, China’s Rise and “Chinese Fever”

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  Jeffrey Gil Flinders University

  April 17, 2020

  the launch of his Webware technology. He also learned Mandarin, and used it proficiently with company ... Shanghai, including smashing a drug ring run by Mr. Negative, and a dramatic confrontation with Doctor ... And what were Peter's reasons for learning Mandarin?  China's growing importance in the ...
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  Jinkies, It's Coronavirus Capitalism!

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  Nicole Seymour California State University Fullerton

  Josh Epstein Portland State University

  April 09, 2020

  of “ Zoombombing,” we’re now running cybersecurity in addition to teaching classes, advising ... a corporatized learning environment that we have absorbed as inevitable? Might we strive to see ourselves, as ...
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  Supernatural from soundtrack to conventiontrack

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  Amanda Kennell North Carolina State University

  November 16, 2020

  appeared at a multi-fandom convention run by Creation Entertainment the following March, and by 2007 ... Creation-run Supernatural conventions every year. Music entered the conventions by way of Jensen Ackles (“Dean ...
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  Jessica Krug’s “Drifting” Accent

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  Pooja Rangan Amherst College

  October 27, 2020

  1 comment

  has been deported to the wrong country after an “accent test,” and you will learn that listeners’ ... certainly, by asylum seekers fleeing conflict (eg: a Palestinian who learns at a refugee camp to pronounce ...
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  Chihiro Grows Up: Defying the Infantilization of the Disney Princess

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  Ryan Banfi New York University

  October 06, 2020

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  overcome by Stockholm Syndrome. This is a win for Beast, but a loss for young girls who “learn” from ... Although Studio Ghibli presents progressive portrayals of young women learning to navigate the world, ...
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  Adapt or disappear: legacy sports media look to esports...

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  LJFilotrani London South Bank University

  February 17, 2020

  Traditional broadcasters can learn from new esports media about engaging live streaming audiences, while new ... some answers to questions it is facing. But are they learning from each other?  My investigation into ...
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  “That Actually Happened” or Blackness, Comics, & Edutainment: Another Look At HBO’s Watchmen

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  Asha S. Winfield Louisiana State University

  September 18, 2020

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  learning, advocacy, and health promotions. The goal is often to inform the audience while entertaining them; ... meet reality and for Watchmen,  that is where learning occurs.  Utilizing this very real history of ...
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  (In)Fertility and the Media: Short Documentary- (In)Fertility, the Media & Me

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  Ruth Farrar Bath Spa University

  Rebecca Feasey Bath Spa University

  Claire Levy Bath Spa University

  April 21, 2020

  learning between researcher and participant (Freire, 1996). This participant-led process also included ...
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  Prelude to a Remix: Damon Lindelof’s Instagram Letter to Watchmen’s Wary Audience

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  Sarah Riddick Worcester Polytechnic Institute

  September 16, 2020

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  140." It is 1988. Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ maxiseries Watchmen finished its run a few months ago, ... not interested and that perhaps he should let sleeping dogs lie with hopes they will eventually be run ...

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