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  March 16, 2009 to March 20, 2009
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  Anxious Coed Spontaneous Fried-Chicken Dance Party

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  Jeffrey Sconce Northwestern University

  March 16, 2009

  6 comments

  Anxious Coed Spontaneous Fried-Chicken Dance Party narration bad movies diegesis Curator's Note Sublime badness exists in a signifying purgatory, caught somewhere between diegetic suspension and profilmic fascination.  Scenes are blocked, lines deliv ...
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  Re: Anxious Coed Spontaneous Fried-Chicken Dance Party

  Less Talk More Fruggin'

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  James Daniel Elam Northwestern University

  Monday, March 16, 2009 — 2:11 pm

  learned her lines. ...
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  Bollywood Bad: Toward an Aesthetics of the Failed Future

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  Barton Scott Montana State University

  March 17, 2009

  5 comments

  Bollywood Bad: Toward an Aesthetics of the Failed Future Sci-fi Bollywood bad movies Curator's Note Love Story 2050 (dir. Harry Baweja, 2008), despite massive promotion and glitzy special effects, flopped hard—it was, to steal a joke from another fil ...
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  bored future

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  Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece Northwestern University

  Tuesday, March 17, 2009 — 11:04 pm

  violence-ridden, or controlled by evil machines run amuck, but rather from being completely obvious.  Regardless of ...
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  Some movies are bad, but some are undead: Watchmen

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  Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece Northwestern University

  March 18, 2009

  6 comments

  Some movies are bad, but some are undead: Watchmen bad movies critical discourse soulless watchmen Curator's Note     It’s a good month for bad film, which doesn’t get much more overwrought and overblown than Watchmen’s bloated animated corpse.  As b ...
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  Dude, Where's My Space Squid?

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  Kaelin B.C. Alexander Cornell University

  Wednesday, March 18, 2009 — 5:07 pm

  made about Snyder’s supposed faithfulness to the source material. I think the running joke is that, if ... Berlant calls infantile citizenship that it always runs the risk of coming across as merely condescending. ...
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  How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the "Killer Condom"

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  Kaelin B.C. Alexander Cornell University

  March 19, 2009

  7 comments

  How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the "Killer Condom" Sci-fi Queer Studies horror ...
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  Re: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the "Killer Condom"

  condom camp

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  Barton Scott Montana State University

  Thursday, March 19, 2009 — 5:23 pm

  Or has the mainstream learned how to subsume the aesthetics of camp, in terms of gender or genre? Do ... gender fictions learned how to include these moments without risking disruption? In other words, have we ... all learned how to stop worrying and love the killer condom? (Rants welcome in reply). ...
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  I could never come up with a better title than Killer Condom

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  Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece Northwestern University

  Thursday, March 19, 2009 — 8:04 pm

  learned how to dress in drag, or at least drink a martini at Lucky Cheng’s; RuPaul’s Drag Race may be ...

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