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  "Welcome (Or Stay At?) Home:” Theme Parks and COVID-19

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  Carter Moulton Northwestern University

  September 22, 2020

  official ride narration. These recreations of rides like “Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run,” “ Pirates of ...
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  Digital Disneyland

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  Arthur D. Soto-Vasquez Texas A&M International University

  September 23, 2020

  in the creation of vibrantly colored, limited-run food and merchandise. The intersection between ...
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  Two Conceptions of Memory in Only Yesterday

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  George Crosthwait Japanese Avant-garde and Experimental Film Festival

  October 05, 2020

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  Two Conceptions of Memory in Only Yesterday Studio Ghibli animation memory Deleuze Buddhism Curator's Note In Isao Takahata's  Only Yesterday  (1991), 27-year-old Taeko takes a Summer break from Tokyo life to visit relatives in Yamagata Prefectu ...
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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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  Antagonists

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  Jayson Quearry Georgia State University

  Tuesday, October 6, 2020 — 4:34 pm

  complexity.  Ghibli female protagonists struggle, have doubts, and learn lessons equal to their representation ...
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  Empty forms

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  Japanese Avant-garde and Experimental Film Festival

  Tuesday, October 6, 2020 — 8:13 pm

  flashbacks. Memory rarely runs in a linear fashion for very long, although perhaps the Deleuze/Bergson ...
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  Lessons from Buckley: Race and the American Right

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  Allison Perlman University of California-Irvine

  October 12, 2020

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  Lessons from Buckley: Race and the American Right William F. Buckley Huey Newton Firing Line conservatives civil rights Curator's Note After William F. Buckley, Jr. died in 2008, commentators lamented that with him died the last gasp of civility with ...
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  Editor's Notes — Floating Cinemas: Screening Movies In, On, and Around the Water

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  jpetrychyn University of Waterloo

  tanyagoldman New York University

  October 12, 2020

  As the many replies came in, she learned this was far from the case. Jon’s early reply on Toronto’s ...
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  No Questions Asked

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  J.D. Connor USC School of Cinematic Arts

  October 21, 2020

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  advantages of remote learning. The next day The Mandalorian picks up 15 Emmy nominations, including VFX, ... series which runs a hefty 228 minutes. [7] But even that scale only hints at the enormous quantity of ...
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  Latinidad and Reflections of the Border in “The Mandalorian”

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  Anthony R. Ramirez Texas A&M University

  October 22, 2020

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  bounty hunter on the run, traveling and escaping from planet to planet seeking safety. The character is ...

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