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  Extreme Action at the Limits of Endurance

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  Adam Cottrel Georgia State University

  May 09, 2014

  4 comments

  athletes like Dean Karnazes and Scott Jurek regularly race (and win) Badwater, but Stuart’s bludgeoning ...
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  Re: Inside Out: Collaborative Creativity and the Pixar Braintrust

  What does collaboration really look like for the directors?

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  Morgan Jaffe Media Education Lab, Harrington School of Communication and Media

  Thursday, April 24, 2014 — 8:52 pm

  it was for Frozen). I understand having the need to keep the films all within an award winning brand, ...
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  Re: Inside Out: Collaborative Creativity and the Pixar Braintrust

  The Future of the Braintrust

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  Christopher Holliday King's College London

  Tuesday, April 22, 2014 — 1:15 pm

  particularly strong results in the case of Ratatouille (winning the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature in ... computer-animated features, and to preserve the winning formula that the previous film Cars had otherwise deserted, ...
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  Inside Out: Collaborative Creativity and the Pixar Braintrust

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  Christopher Holliday King's College London

  April 21, 2014

  8 comments

  parent company too. The credits of Disney’s Oscar-winning Frozen (2013) includes a dedication to the ...
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  Re: Idiot Media: The Culture of NekNomination Videos

  Noms vs. Neks

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  Andrea K. Brooks The University of British Columbia

  Thursday, April 3, 2014 — 5:55 pm

  etc.) to earn an extreme reaction from their selected judges (their friend database). It would seem that ... no competition to win, only attention to be gained. As with everything else that gains notoriety on ...
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  Idiot Media: The Culture of NekNomination Videos

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  Tanya Horeck & Tina Kendall Anglia Ruskin University

  April 02, 2014

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  Idiot Media: The Culture of NekNomination Videos social media Circulating pain affect Curator's Note NekNomination videos – a social media drinking game which involves (mainly) young men drinking potentially lethal combinations of alcohol and then is ...
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  Re: Displacing Meaning: Parodic Ads “Without texts”

  yet another

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  Jonathan Gray University of Wisconsin - Madison

  Wednesday, March 19, 2014 — 8:44 pm

  funny but troubling trailer parody "for every Oscar winning movie ever" (if we add disability ...
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  Displacing Meaning: Parodic Ads “Without texts”

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  Taylor Nygaard University of Denver

  March 18, 2014

  6 comments

  Displacing Meaning: Parodic Ads “Without texts” Sundance parody Paratexts Without Texts film trailers Curator's Note This parodic trailer is a “paratext without a text.” It has no actual film that it is advertising. Instead it is an aggregation of tr ...
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  "Yeah, Maybe A Lighter Butch": Outlaw Gender and Female Masculinity in Orange Is The New Black

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  Sasha T. Goldberg Indiana University Bloomington

  March 12, 2014

  3 comments

  face it, Butchie, you lose, I win" with a first-wife warning of her own: She tells the new ...
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  The Dead Can Twitter: Tragedy, Comedy, and False Celebrity Death Reports

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  Charlotte Howell University of Texas at Austin

  January 29, 2014

  1 comment

  earned a verbalization of his name, a tumblr built around a single visual pun on his name, and ...

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