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  Re: "Telling Stories is the Most Powerful Thing": Kony 2012 and Narrative [Dis]Unity

  Thanks for posting on this!

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  Christopher Boulton University of Tampa

  Tuesday, August 28, 2012 — 7:35 am

  I'm curious, have you come across much critical work seeing to understand the wild success of Russell's storytelling techniques? Even if we set aside Kony 2012's neocolonial implications, and the film's manipulative conflations of geog ...
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  Re: Artful Mockers: Brand Parodies Amplified Through Animation

  Brands win

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  Christopher Boulton University of Tampa

  Friday, March 18, 2011 — 3:09 pm

  Gladys, I think Morgan Spurlock's new film may prove you right: http://www.sonyclassics.com/pomwonderfulpresentsthegreatestmovieeversold/ ...
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  Re: "All Your Subversion Are Belong to Culture Industry" (That Means You Too, Banksy!)

  Inside Job?

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  Christopher Boulton University of Tampa

  Friday, March 18, 2011 — 3:24 pm

  Thoughtful post Benjamin. I like your meditation on how Banksy's "reveal" of the hidden abode is served up for our consumption. Especially given that Banksy's "Exit From the Gift Shop" was beat out for the Oscar by the more e ...
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  Re: Whopper Virgins: Nanook Revisited?

  SNL Spoof

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  Christopher Boulton University of Tampa

  Wednesday, January 28, 2009 — 12:43 am

  I hear you Kathleen. But what do you think might be the campaign's impact on Western audiences? According to Advertising Age, it has generated enough controversy and attention to be satirized/canonized by Saturday Night Live. High praise indeed and a ...