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Thanksgiving Holiday Staff Picks

Bringing Back our Favorites: Nostalgia, Revivals and the Limited Series Format

By Liz Clarke
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Distinction and Conjunction in the Films of Kahlil Joseph

By Charles P. Linscott
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Star Wars Holiday Special Fan Edit: Lumpy Saves Life Day

By Frank Bridges

Food Porn on Tumblr: A Mediated Cornucopia of Fantasies, Desires, and Excesses

By Carlnita P. Greene
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Pretty Little Peaks: Policing the Gendered Boundary of Quality Television

By Dana Och
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Reboots, Updates, and Reinterpretations

Theme week organized by
Jayson QuearryGeorgia State University

Fun and Games: ABC's game show reboots

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Re-imagining the Teen Drama for 2018: A Darker Teenage Witch

By kirbcr17

Anarky Reinterpreted

By DrSG

"How Safe Do You Feel?": James Bond in the Post 9/11 Era

By L Knight
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Find and Fulfill Your Destiny: Clash of the Titans and its Postmodern Simulacrum

By Alexandra Nakelski
Two Greek Statues behind a stone shield in close-up.

Mythologies and Their Continued Impact

Theme week organized by
Christopher MinzGeorgia State University

Persistence of the Myth of Sisyphus in Visual Culture

By David Melbye

AMC’s Breaking Bad and the Myth of the Frontier

By Lisa Weckerle
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Mythologies of scholarship, the role of imagination in the history of science

By M. Willis Monroe
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Why the West remains America's Most Potent Myth

By Christopher Minz

Perpetuating the American Dream through Investment Television

By Emma Frances Bloomfield
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Staff Picks

Queering Captain Planet and HIV/AIDS

By Taylor Cole Miller
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Mormons, Pagans, and Abrahamics: The Representations of Religion in Battlestar Galactica

By Bruce Makoto Arnold

“Just one more thing”: Columbo’s investigation of analog technologies

By Amelie Hastie
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Taylor Swift Haters Hate in Many Flavors

By Anthony C. Bleach

Digital Kayfabe: The Sport of Performance in Wrestling Video Games

By Andrew Kemp
John Carpenter providing live accompaniment to one of his films in 2016.

Tribute to John Carpenter

Theme week organized by
Andrew KempGeorgia State University

The Fog: John Carpenter’s ‘Liebestod’

By George Crosthwait
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The Train and the Nonhuman in Halloween

By DawnKeetley
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ORDER IN THE UNIVERSE

By josephwatson
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They Live, We Sleep...Or are we 'Woke' and Don't Care?

By Alexandra Nakelski

What is a genre-auteur film ? The example of Halloween a horror-auteur movie (1978, John Carpenter). Comparison with Peeping Tom (1960, Michael Powell)

By Florian Milano
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Fan + Podcasting = Fancasting

Theme week organized by
Dafna KaufmanThe University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

TV Fancasts and the Pleasures of Episodic Consumption 

By Zoë Shacklock
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My Favorite Podcast: Considerations of Celebrity in Podcast Culture

By Dafna Kaufman
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Reaction Videos as Fancasting: Elevating Reaction Videos through Continuous Series Coverage and Conversation

By APLeith

WTF? How a podcast established a unique transmedia dialogue

By Brad Mitchell
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Hardcore Historian: The Amateur as Expert

By Andrew J. Salvati
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#MeToo Media Coverage

Theme week organized by
Ashley JonesGeorgia Southwestern State University

The risk of claiming #metoo

By Amy Arellano
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Celebrity resistance to #MeToo and #TimesUp

By Spring Duvall
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Time's Up and Industry Feminism

By Kate Fortmueller
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Time’s Now: #MeTooK12 and the Kavanaugh Hearings

By Rebecca Leung and Robert E. Williams

#MeToo at a Crossroads

By Ashley Jones
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Remediation

Theme week organized by
Wolfgang BoehmGeorgia State University

The Nostalgic Gaze of Toy Story 3

By David Safin

Remediation of Photographs on Social Media to Encourage Engagement

By Dr Vanessa Jackson

Moving Words and Movable Type: Lyric Videos and Remediation

By Padraic Killeen

'I was like right there with Charo on the Carol Burnett Stage"

By Meenasarani Linde Murugan
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Wrapped in Diapers, Built for Speed

By Melissa Hardie

Making-Ofs and Behind the Scenes

Theme week organized by
Daniel SteinhartUniversity of Oregon

MGM’s 1925 Studio Tour and Promotional “Tours” of Labor in Early Hollywood

By erinhill
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The Making of The Night of the Iguana in Mexico

By Daniel Steinhart
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An Avant-Garde Promotional Film Directed by USC Student George Lucas

By andymyers
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The ‘Making-of’ Featurette as a Flirty Object

By Mila Zuo
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Cultural Production of Black Panther behind the scenes

By Leah Aldridge
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Genderswapped Avengers posing with small girl.

Cosplay, Crossplay & Genderbent Cosplay

Theme week organized by
Tanya D. Zuk, Ph.D.Georgia State University

Power Play in Cosplay: Performative Femininity

By TaLynn Kel
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Being Seen: Cosplay and Performative Identity

By Elizabeth Gackstetter Nichols
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Crossplay, Gender Fluidity & Star Wars Fandom

By Emma Pett

Crossplay vs Genderbend: How cosplayers play with gender

By SarahAadahl
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Cosplay, Race and Becoming

By tobias c. van Veen

Challenging the Politics of Accuracy by Conceiving Cosplay as an Afrofuturist Tool

By Nicole Taylor

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