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Category: 22.02

Textual Object
Nicholas Sammond / University of Toronto

November 23, 2015 Nicholas Sammond / University of Toronto One comment

Nicholas Sammond considers Disneyland as a text, engaging the amusement park as a textual (and intertextual) object and narrative in relation to Bakhtin’s concept of heteroglossia, in order to expand notions of textuality and its study.

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“Smart is the New Cool”: Branding Project MC2’s S.T.E.M. Lifestyle
Avi Santo / Old Dominion University

November 23, 2015 Avi Santo / Old Dominion University 3 comments

Avi Santo explores the ways in which Project MC2 attempts to sell a brand and S.T.E.M to young girls.

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Wicked Games, Part I: Twenty-sided Demons
Matthew Payne / University of Alabama
Peter Alilunas / University of Oregon

November 23, 2015 Matthew Payne / University of Alabama & Peter Alilunas / University of Oregon 2 comments

A history of controversies surrounding tabletop role-playing game Dungeons and Dragons

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Miss Representations: No Room for Blackness or Feminism on Mad Men’s Sets
Whitten Overby / Cornell University

November 23, 2015 Whitten Overby / Cornell University 3 comments

Whitten Overby argues that the modern architectural spaces and sets in AMC’s Mad Men assert white, patriarchal ideologies that challenge feminist readings of the show and illustrate the show’s shortcomings in exploring issues of racial discrimination.

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Girl as Sign: Epistemology of the Shōjo
Coco Zhou / McGill University

November 22, 2015 Coco Zhou / McGill University 4 comments

Coco Zhou examines the male and female identification process and gender dynamics underlying the shojo figure in Japanese anime and visual and popular culture.

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Hybridity, Extratextuality and the Docudrama:
Re-evaluating ‘Spoilers’ in The Jinx

Laura Minor
 / Keele University

November 21, 2015 Laura Minor / Keele University 14 comments

Laura Minor explores the ambiguity of contemporary documentary forms, examining Andrew Jarecki’s documentary mini-series The Jinx in relation to the television documdrama, analyzing its hybridity, extratextuality, and its presentation of “real life” spoilers.

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Classifying Dahmer: Protecting Netflix’s Homonormative Canon
Dan Vena / Queen’s University & Sarah Woodstock / University of Toronto

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27 Jan

New to Over*Flow: Dan Vena and Sarah Woodstock argue that Netflix’s removal of Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story from its LGBTQ TV category discards “unacceptable” queer history and protects the homonormativity of Netflix’s LGBTQ library.
https://www.flowjournal.org/2023/01/overflow-classifying-dahmer/

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21 Jan

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13 Jan

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