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Reimagining Passions, Pleasures and Bad Lady Texts

October 13, 2015
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Reimagining Passions, Pleasures and Bad Lady Texts

In part two of a series on the anthology Cupcakes, Pinterest, and Ladyporn: Feminized Popular Culture in the Early 21st Century, Kristen Warner discusses the "Passions" section, where scholars consider how pleasure functions for women viewers who use female-centric media texts as models for who they want to be and what they want to...
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The Aesthetic Turn: How Media Translate, or, Why Do I Like Chase Scenes?

November 6, 2013
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The Aesthetic Turn: How Media Translate, or, Why Do I Like Chase Scenes?

In this latest entry in The Aesthetic Turn series, Kyle Conway considers the aesthetic experience of media, using translation and metaphor to turn our attention away from the object and toward our experience of media in the age of convergence.
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