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• In Media Res
  Re: Eyeball, Anyone?

  Eating with my Eyes

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  Eric LeMay Ohio University

  Thursday, March 3, 2011 — 3:19 pm

  Thank you, Carolyn, for this stomach-churner!  I love your observation about the dinners’ teeth, which not only lets them avoid sensation, but also doubles as a flash of aggression.  I’m struck how the “Look!  They’re really eating it!” shots and many oth ...
• In Media Res
  Re: Baby Carrots

  Don't Mess With a Bunch of Carrot Farmers

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  Eric LeMay Ohio University

  Monday, February 28, 2011 — 3:03 pm

  Thanks, Darra, for this great start to the week!  You’re right: How odd that a bunch of carrot farmers wouldn’t capitalize on America’s recent embrace of natural foods, especially vegetables, as sung by the growing slow/whole foods movement.  It seems lik ...
• In Media Res
  Re: Aging and Action Authenticity

  Battered (by Age)

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  Eric LeMay Ohio University

  Friday, August 13, 2010 — 5:30 pm

  Thanks, Yvonne, for this fine post.  I like your observation that, with stars like Willis, the aging body can work as an asset, just another challenge that our battered hero has to overcome.  I think this sort of hero brings into relief a counter-model or ...
• In Media Res
  Re: The Body That Can't Win

  Body Break

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  Eric LeMay Ohio University

  Friday, August 13, 2010 — 11:07 pm

  Nice post, Matt.  Thanks for it.  The Stallone film that, to my surprise, stays with me is Cop Land, for which he put on about thirty pounds and in which gives a very un-Rambo/Rocky (IV) performance as a sheriff-lummox.  I bring it up because Stallone mak ...
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  Re: A Failure of Imagination: The role of disability in AVATAR

  Alternative Avatars

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  Eric LeMay Ohio University

  Tuesday, August 10, 2010 — 4:36 pm

  I'll add my thanks to Drew's, Jennifer.  Great post!  I was taken by AJewlledGirl's observation that the movie could have easily reversed its take on Jake's supposed disability by using his familiarity with machines as the key to the h ...
• In Media Res
  Re: Action Tones

  Ironic muscle

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  Eric LeMay Ohio University

  Monday, August 9, 2010 — 11:24 pm

  Thanks, Drew, for your response; I appreciate it very much.  I suppose one way to bring together global action and an absence of irony is to consider how irony, in which a meaning and its negating opposite, A and ~A, occur simultaneously, presides through ...
• In Media Res
  Re: Timing Effects in "Many Worlds Mario"

  "A Best-of-All-Possible-Worlds Recording"

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  Eric LeMay Ohio University

  Monday, May 10, 2010 — 3:57 pm

  Thanks, Christopher, for starting off the week with this interesting post.  As I watched the compression of the Mario's 134 attempts to make it through the level, it occurred to me that this recording tool also illustrates a common critique leveled a ...
• In Media Res
  Re: Mourning and Monitoring

  Psychology Pacing

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  Eric LeMay Ohio University

  Wednesday, May 12, 2010 — 8:34 pm

  Christopher, Thank you for this thoughtful response.  I find powerful your thought that the webcam, through its incremental changes, may better support the process—and progress—of mourning the "collective trauma" of 9/11.  Perhaps more so than a ...
• In Media Res
  Re: Mourning and Monitoring

  Not the What, But the How

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  Eric LeMay Ohio University

  Wednesday, May 12, 2010 — 8:40 pm

  Thank you, Carnelia.  Your response has me wondering about just what, in a disaster that we experience through media, creates the experience of horror.  My first thought would be the obvious one: the horrific content of the images.  But your post stresses ...
• In Media Res
  Re: "And I Talk Pretty Too": Race, Dialect and the Beauty Myth.

  "It's not your English usage, Angelea, it's your personality."

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  Eric LeMay Ohio University

  Sunday, May 16, 2010 — 11:42 pm

    Thank you for this post, Carnelia.  Your insightful framing of the episode altered me to the way in which contest-centered reality shows often make a big deal about giving viewers a look not only at “reality," in the sense of real people in real si ...

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