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  The Curious Case of Donald Trump's Doctor: Metonymy in the Age of Memetic News

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  Aaron Dickinson Sachs Saint Mary's College of California

  May 30, 2016

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  The Curious Case of Donald Trump's Doctor: Metonymy in the Age of Memetic News Trump surrogacy news Metonymy memetic meme media Harold Bornstein Donald Trump Curator's Note Six months ago in the weeks leading up to the fifth Republican Debate on ...
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  Sochi Pop: Getting Lucky with Sex, Force, and Proliferating Signifiers

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  Aaron Dickinson Sachs Saint Mary's College of California

  May 05, 2016

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  insightful, chain of signification. The association of luck to winning athletic events provides one obvious ...
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  Re: “If I fight, you fight”: Sly Stallone and the aged action star’s triumphant submission in Creed

  Thanks Rebecca, so much to

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  Glen Donnar RMIT University

  Friday, April 29, 2016 — 12:39 pm

  him and the names he has to earn and own (and I think he has to also learn to be proud to be a Johnson ...
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  Your Legacy is More Than a Name: Creed and the Resurrection of the Boxing Film

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  Rebecca Sheehan United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney

  April 20, 2016

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  needed or expected to win. What mattered was that he could “go the distance,” that he would know finally, ...
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  “If I fight, you fight”: Sly Stallone and the aged action star’s triumphant submission in Creed

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  Glen Donnar RMIT University

  April 18, 2016

  9 comments

  “If I fight, you fight”: Sly Stallone and the aged action star’s triumphant submission in Creed Sylvester Stallone Rocky masculinity boxing film ageing action stardom 80s action Curator's Note The training montage is a genre staple of the boxing film ...
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  Shut Out of the Shining City On a Hill: "The Golden Girls" and the Plight of the Homeless in 1980s America

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  Thomas J. West III Syracuse University

  March 11, 2016

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  the four women procure a winning lottery ticket, which Blanche stores in her new jacket. ... (which occurs immediately following this scene), has the women donate their winning lottery ticket to the ...
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  Flashback Against AIDS: Retro-Activism in HBO's The Normal Heart

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  R. Gabriel Dor Northwestern University

  March 10, 2016

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  reinforced by the Award-winning makeup depicting the ravages of the disease. The incorporation of the ...
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  Nyan Cat: Nothing Happens, Longer, Again

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  Tina Kendall Anglia Ruskin University

  February 22, 2016

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  the 5th most viewed YouTube video of 2011, and winning the Webby award for Meme of the Year in 2012 ...
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  Rocky Rides Again: Creed and the American Dream

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  Patrick D Anderson Colby-Sawyer College

  January 14, 2016

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  Though in the end Rocky didn’t win the title, he stayed with reigning champ Apollo Creed for all fifteen ... rounds and, as a result, gained the self-respect he was looking for. He also wins the love of Adrian, and ... instead of Creed for much of the film). And though, like Rocky, he fails to win the title, he does achieve ...
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  Re: Perpetuating the American Dream through Investment Television

  This makes me think of the

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  Jenny Gunn Georgia State University

  Wednesday, January 13, 2016 — 1:25 pm

  money to spare have bought power ball tickets with a beyond microscopic chance of winning. Also, I know ...

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