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Author: Charles R. Acland / Concordia University

Flow Favorites: Avatar as Technological Tentpole
Charles R. Acland / Concordia University

May 19, 2011 Charles R. Acland / Concordia University 9 comments

Courtney Brannon Donoghue’s Flow Favorite: Charles Acland wonders whether James Cameron’s Avatar is a “game-changer,” or business as usual?

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You Haven’t Seen Avatar Yet
Charles R. Acland / Concordia University

February 11, 2011 Charles R. Acland / Concordia University 3 comments

The DVD set for the film Avatar invites viewers to “extend the journey,” exemplary of the elasticity of the film’s boundaries.

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Everybody Knows
Charles R. Acland / Concordia University

November 12, 2010 Charles R. Acland / Concordia University 3 comments

The “nobody knows anything” phrase is a smokescreen for an extensive and concentrated organization of advantage in the arena of commercial cultural enterprise.

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Marshall’s Children
Charles R. Acland / Concordia University

April 8, 2010 Charles R. Acland / Concordia University 3 comments

Re-situating Marshall McLuhan in media studies, in light of a new biography by Douglas Coupland.

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Avatar as Technological Tentpole
Charles R. Acland / Concordia University

January 22, 2010 Charles R. Acland / Concordia University 2 comments

Is James Cameron’s Avatar a “game-changer,” or business as usual?

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The Last Days of Videotape
Charles R. Acland / Concordia University

November 12, 2009 Charles R. Acland / Concordia University 12 comments

An argument for the significance of the videotape as a lively and important object of academic research.

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