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  Luke Spencer: General Hospital’s Repentant Rapist

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  Elana Levine

  March 19, 2008

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  Luke Spencer: General Hospital’s Repentant Rapist patriarchy gender rape masculinity masochism soap operas 1970s General Hospital violence guilt Curator's Note As the 1970s drew to a close, the most popular character on US daytime television soap ope ...
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  No intelligence allowed?

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  Craig O. Stewart Old Dominion University

  March 13, 2008

  Oscar-winning An Inconvenient Truth showed that science documentaries can escape the confines of educational ...
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  Re: Flying Classrooms in the Midwest: The MPATI’s Experiment in Regional Educational Television

  From the materials I've

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  Allison Perlman Penn State University-- Erie

  Thursday, February 28, 2008 — 11:55 pm

  earned in growing corn, soybeans, hogs and cattle has helped to support the school." “The school is ...
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  Flying Classrooms in the Midwest: The MPATI’s Experiment in Regional Educational Television

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  Allison Perlman University of California-Irvine

  February 28, 2008

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  Flying Classrooms in the Midwest: The MPATI’s Experiment in Regional Educational Television regional media Midwest Program on Airborne Television Instruction history failure educational TV distribution airplanes 1960s 1950s Curator's Note The Midwest ...
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  Re: Baseball *Is* All It’s Quacked Up To Be

  Two quick (honest!)

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  Doug Battema Western New England University

  Thursday, February 28, 2008 — 12:26 am

  players to reach their earning potential compared to football or basketball, the equipment and space ...
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  Baseball *Is* All It’s Quacked Up To Be

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  Doug Battema Western New England University

  February 27, 2008

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  Baseball *Is* All It’s Quacked Up To Be 1950s amateurs Baseball branding discourse documentaries fandom Ken Burns Madiso Mallards marketing pro-am promos regionalism sports Curator's Note Inning Seven of Ken Burns’ “Baseball” argues that major socioe ...
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  Neurosis in the Defense of Liberty is No Vice: Extremism, Anxiety, and the 1964 Presidential Campaign

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  Heather Hendershot City University of New York, Queens College

  February 06, 2008

  broadcasting grew even stronger. The DNC’s neurotic, confessing Republican helped LBJ win the presidential ...
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  Re: Two Words: Chuck Norris

  Interesting post. I'd like

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  Craig O. Stewart Old Dominion University

  Wednesday, January 16, 2008 — 5:52 pm

  policy, etc. And it is here where this message is likely to actually win people over to the Huckabee camp. ...
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  Two Words: Chuck Norris

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  Ian Reilly University of Guelph

  January 16, 2008

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  Two Words: Chuck Norris branding satire politics Mike Huckabee celebrity endorsement conservatism Republicans Curator's Note Mike Huckabee's collaboration with Chuck Norris – a minute-long advert suggestively called HuckChuck Facts – provides a ...
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  Re: Ironic Authenticity: Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping

  I haven’t seen the film

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  Viveca Greene Hampshire College

  Tuesday, January 15, 2008 — 7:29 pm

  I suspect that much of the trust Jon Stewart, for example, has earned is the result of his continual ...

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