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  Unsettling Accounts: The Cultural Life of Hollywood Economics in Johnson v Rysher, Celador v Disney, and so on

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  Josh Heuman Texas A&M University, Department of Communication

  August 24, 2010

  5 comments

  Unsettling Accounts: The Cultural Life of Hollywood Economics in Johnson v Rysher, Celador v Disney, and so on Todd McFarlane organization Neil Gaiman Lady Gaga Ke$ha Eric Dane entertainment law Don Johnson dealmaking contract Celador Curator's Note ...
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  Re: "The MSG Curtain Call": A Conflation of Front and Backstage in Professional Wrestling

  First of all, great example

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  Sam Ford Massachusetts Institute for Technology

  Friday, August 20, 2010 — 5:00 pm

  WWE finally ended Nitro's 83-week Monday Night Wars winning streak... ...
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  Re: "The MSG Curtain Call": A Conflation of Front and Backstage in Professional Wrestling

  Thanks Bryce for the history

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  Ari Berenstein 411Mania.com

  Friday, August 20, 2010 — 6:46 am

  feud, where fans were so invested in their home promotion winning that they forgot about what was fake ...
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  "The MSG Curtain Call": A Conflation of Front and Backstage in Professional Wrestling

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  Ari Berenstein 411Mania.com

  August 19, 2010

  6 comments

  prestigious win at the 1996 King of Ring tournament instead went to "Stone Cold" Steve Austin, who ...
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  The Body That Can't Win

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  Matt Thomas University of Iowa

  August 13, 2010

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  The Body That Can't Win The Expendables the body Stallone Rocky Rambo masculinity action ... seems, just can’t win.   ...
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  Re: Aging and Action Authenticity

  Graceful aging

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  Yvonne Tasker University of East Anglia

  Thursday, August 12, 2010 — 4:13 pm

  gunfighters who struggle to hold onto the privileges that they had earned.  Movies like Liberty Valence and ...
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  Aging and Action Authenticity

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  Yvonne Tasker University of East Anglia

  August 12, 2010

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  Aging and Action Authenticity gender Aging action Curator's Note The imminent release of The Expendables underlines the continuing presence of aging action stars. 1980s action stars such as Stallone, Willis, Ford and Gibson are hardly without precede ...
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  The World in Action

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  Mark Gallagher University of Nottingham

  August 11, 2010

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  the world, filming on location to exploit foreign scenery or tax credits, or simply earning ... (2006) have earned writer-director Timur Bekmambetov entry into B+ list Hollywood. Kazakh coproductions ...
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  A Failure of Imagination: The role of disability in AVATAR

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  Jennifer Proctor University of Michigan-Dearborn

  August 10, 2010

  6 comments

  “naturally” able will win.  Ultimately, in Avatar, disability is a condition that must be escaped. Jake's ...
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  Action Movies & Masculinity

  August 09, 2010 to August 13, 2010

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