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  Playing with Peripherals

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  Ben Aslinger Bentley University

  September 24, 2007

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  a joystick while playing Pole Position, running on the NES Power Pad, and calming a dog named Venus who gets ... perspectives and research methods to talk about the investments and pleasures of audiences. What can we learn ...
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  Burgundy Histories? WEWS-TV “Catch 5!” 1970s promo

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  Mark Williams Dartmouth College

  February 26, 2008

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  E.W. Scripps’ legacy is that he trusted local editors to know best how to run local newspapers. Today, ...
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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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  Nostalgia 2.0: AMC and the Development of Original Retro Programming

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  JP Kelly Royal Holloway, University of London

  October 31, 2011

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  Nostalgia 2.0: AMC and the Development of Original Retro Programming The Walking Dead The Lot retro Remember WENN nostalgia Mad Men Basic Cable AMC Curator's Note In the season one finale of  Mad Men  (2007 –), series’ protagonist and suave ad man Do ...
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  All That's Bad in the English Game? Sports Scandals and Englishness

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  Neil Ewen University of Winchester

  December 02, 2011

  of decency and ‘fair play’ were learned on the playing fields of English public schools and coded as ...
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  Raphael Saadiq's Soul Memories

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  Michael D Dwyer Arcadia University

  August 30, 2012

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  Raphael Saadiq's Soul Memories soul Raphael Saadiq pop music nostalgia memory Media Nostalgia Curator's Note To understand the relationship between popular media and nostalgia, we first need to understand this: nostalgia isn't about the pas ...
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  This Actually Needs to Happen: The Daria Movie Trailer

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  Angelina Karpovich Brunel University

  March 20, 2014

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  This Actually Needs to Happen: The Daria Movie Trailer Paratexts Without Texts nostalgia MTV Daria CollegeHumor Curator's Note First, a confession/anecdote: a couple of years ago, one of my best friends and I went to see American Pie: Reunion. My fri ...
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  Repetition, Nostalgia, and the Obsessive Joy of LEGO Video Games

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  Drew Ayers Eastern Washington University

  June 25, 2014

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  Repetition, Nostalgia, and the Obsessive Joy of LEGO Video Games video games Traveller's Tales repetition nostalgia licensing LEGO franchises Curator's Note Since 2005, Traveller’s Tales (TT) has produced 14 LEGO video games based on LEGO-licens ...
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  Bringing Back our Favorites: Nostalgia, Revivals and the Limited Series Format

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  Liz Clarke University of New Brunswick

  December 12, 2016

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  during its initial run and those who had discovered it on DVD or VOD—but also generated a new set of ... as opportunities for long-running network-style series, but as short, limited series. One argument ...
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  Rose-tinted Reboots: Television Remakes and Nostalgia

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  Hannah Green Allegheny College

  March 18, 2017

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  Rose-tinted Reboots: Television Remakes and Nostalgia Television Remakes Rory Gilmore nostalgia Lorelei Gilmore Gilmore Girls FX Fuller House Curator's Note FX Networks CEO John Landgraf terms the staggering number of scripted series (over 400 progra ...

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