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  “Proud Mary”: Glee’s Very Special Sham Disability Pride Anthem

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  David Kociemba Emerson College

  April 09, 2010

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  dips, tilts and spins. One dancer twirls another in the air slowly, chair and all. The choreography is ...
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  Economics You Can Play, Not Economics You Can Use?

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  Randy Nichols University of Washington Tacoma

  April 23, 2010

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  recently, though, games like Electronic Arts’ The Sims (2000) and all its spin-offs offer a distinctly ...
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  Up with Dead Privates

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  Kathleen Frederickson UC Davis

  May 07, 2010

  almost always devoid of affect, Otto finds himself cast in goth dyke director Medea Yarn’s “political ... in Medea   Yarn’s film-within-the-film—of   the forces that organize these streets as spaces of ...
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  The People's Republic of Paper: Rag Paper and Material Memory

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  Jonathan Senchyne Cornell University

  May 31, 2010

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  The People's Republic of Paper: Rag Paper and Material Memory art therapy combat paper iraq veterans against war material memory memory paper papermaking Sigourney Thoreau uniforms Veterans Curator's Note "There's nothing beautiful or ...
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   Timothy, I wouldn’t say that

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  Jonathan Senchyne Cornell University

  Tuesday, June 1, 2010 — 5:47 pm

   Sigourney takes this kind of popular consciousness about paper's materiality and spins it for her ...
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  Paper in the Age of Industrial Print

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  Timothy Carmody University of Pennsylvania

  June 04, 2010

  spins rapidly along an infinite vertical axis. Then, individual words in blackletter font leap up ...
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  The Reagan Brand

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  Tim Raphael Rutgers University-Newark

  June 08, 2010

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  hour-long news “documentaries.” Spin the dial and he was on CNN and the network news, performing roles in ...
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  Dan Smoot, Arid Pundit

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  Heather Hendershot City University of New York, Queens College

  June 10, 2010

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  Dan Smoot, Arid Pundit John Birch Society extremism cold war, Curator's Note   Much of the right-wing radio and TV of the cold war years was simply designed to be boring. The right-winger shown here, Dan Smoot, seemed willfully predisposed not to ent ...
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  JBS

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  Heather Hendershot City University of New York, Queens College

  Friday, June 11, 2010 — 3:41 pm

  a few KKKers and other extremists who made them look bad, so spin was a constant issue. ...
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  Westen Meets Lawson: Formula as Brand and the Potential of a USA Network Genre

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  Charlotte Howell University of Texas at Austin

  July 12, 2010

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  Westen Meets Lawson: Formula as Brand and the Potential of a USA Network Genre USA Network genre formula brand Curator's Note Royal Pains premiered in 2009, and in many ways it stands as the exemplar of the (possible) USA Network genre. It uses the f ...

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