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  AMC’s Breaking Bad and the Myth of the Frontier

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  Lisa Weckerle Kutztown University

  April 29, 2018

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  AMC’s Breaking Bad and the Myth of the Frontier Breaking Bad colonization New Visions of the Old West Curator's Note According to Slotkin, “…the Myth [of the Frontier] represented the redemption of American spirit or fortune as something to be achiev ...
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  The Canadian Good Life in Gunless

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  Andrea Braithwaite University of Ontario Institute of Technology

  April 29, 2018

  2 comments

  Canada. On the run from a vengeful gang of American outlaws, the Montana Kid agrees to work in trade for ...
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  “I’ve Seen My Death…This Ain’t It”: Putting the White Nationalist Myth of the West to Rest

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  Brian Steinbach Kansas University

  April 29, 2018

  1 comment

  scene to preserve domesticity, rather than as a means of running from it. Godless also hauntingly ...
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  Westworld's computerized Future Past

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  Christopher Minz Georgia State University

  April 30, 2018

  3 comments

  or returning to the park to find her daughter. She appears to sense what we too have learned about ...
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  Re: AMC’s Breaking Bad and the Myth of the Frontier

  Neoliberalism and Narrative

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  Brian Steinbach Kansas University

  Tuesday, May 1, 2018 — 7:37 pm

  "White" colonizing one of the most diverse places in the U.S. by the end of the show's run). The ...
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  Displacing Genocide and Other National Atrocities

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  Brian Steinbach Kansas University

  Thursday, May 3, 2018 — 5:30 pm

  than I am with the construction of Memory and Archive in the U.S., but I do occasionally run across ...
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  Children of the Corn and Farm Crisis Horror

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  Kathleen P. Hunt Iowa State University

  June 11, 2018

  ensnare Burt in the climax scene, wrapping his legs and torso as he runs through a field. Finally, it is ...
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  Who Will Survive in America? Military Horror, Millennials and Contemporary Moral Panics

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  Josh Smicker Catawba College

  June 14, 2018

  ‘softness’ are literally embodied in these films, as millennials learn ‘grit,’ resilience, self-confidence, ...
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  Racism Makes World Cup Isolating

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  Dana Gavin Old Dominion University

  June 17, 2018

  “Mo” Salah Ghaly, who plays for Liverpool, joining the Egyptian national team for their World Cup run ...
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  Pornography and Urban Erotics in Newark

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  Whitney Strub Rutgers University-Newark

  June 25, 2018

  1 comment

  there two churches, and next door a diner. Then, at 562 Broad Street, the longest running movie theater ...

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