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  G.I. Dick: Don Draper as Korean War Veteran

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  Allison Perlman University of California-Irvine

  April 23, 2009

  7 comments

  first thing we learn about Don Draper’s past is that he is a veteran; in the series premiere, Don takes ... we meet the “real” Don Draper and that we learn how Dick Whitman assumes his identity (illustrated in ... learn that both Don/Dick and Lt. Draper are serving for personal rather than ideological ...
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  Re: The Oppressive Rectangularity of the Fluorescent Light

  I think of cinemas,

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  David Lavery Middle Tennessee State University

  Friday, April 24, 2009 — 12:53 pm

    A stunningly observant post from Jeremy!   BTW: I learned from John Ott's Health and Light that ...
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  When Simon Met Susan

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  Nic Sammond University of Toronto

  April 25, 2009

  No one learned a damn thing. (And that, perhaps, is why that shot has disappeared from the current ...
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  "So Many Games To Play": The Worlds of Watchmen

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  Will Brooker Kingston University

  April 27, 2009

  6 comments

  "So Many Games To Play": The Worlds of Watchmen Watchmen iPhone Overflow Curator's Note     The main interface of the “ Watchmen ” iPhone application offers a horizontally-scrolling representation of the retired superhero Ozymandias and his ...
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  Re: "So Many Games To Play": The Worlds of Watchmen

  So Many Games to Play

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  Gareth James University of Exeter

  Monday, April 27, 2009 — 2:32 pm

  narrative down to a multi-player running fight, moving between different historical stages of the graphic ...
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  Enlisting Players from Console to Mall

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  Nina Huntemann Suffolk University

  April 28, 2009

  5 comments

  technology to run “mission simulators” in modified Apache and Black Hawk helicopters. Before Philadelphia, ...
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  Springfield Sprawl: The Ad of the Game of the Movie of the Show

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  Jonathan Gray University of Wisconsin - Madison

  April 29, 2009

  4 comments

  Springfield Sprawl: The Ad of the Game of the Movie of the Show video games trailer The Simpsons paratexts paratext overflow commercial intertexts Curator's Note This batch of trailers all very amusingly advertised the 2007 videogame, The Simpsons Ga ...
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  Re: Springfield Sprawl: The Ad of the Game of the Movie of the Show

  WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE, WE'VE GOT FUN AND GAMES

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  Will Brooker Kingston University

  Thursday, April 30, 2009 — 11:35 am

  a website run by characters from a TV show, a documentary about the Blair Witch, an ARG that invites you to ...
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  Beyond Broadcast: Launching NITV on Isuma TV

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  Faye Ginsburg New York University

  May 04, 2009

  21 comments

  gathering prizes on its festival run. The group formed in 1990, turning televisual technologies into ... allowed us to end-run the film industry entirely and launch a video website that could take aspects of ...
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  Festival Exchanges and Circulation in the Online South

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  Amalia Cordova New York University/Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian

  May 06, 2009

  7 comments

  Festival Exchanges and Circulation in the Online South video Latin America Indigenous festivals Curator's Note One of the main spaces for exchange and strengthening of the Indigenous video movement in Latin America is the indigenous film/video festiv ...

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