Remember the Good Old Days?: Nostalgia, Retroscapes, and the Dungeon Crawl Classics [PDF]
, 2012 This paper examines the use of nostalgia to construct fantasy adventure modules as “retroscapes” or idealized representations of the past. Specifically, I examine a set of Dungeons and Dragons (D&D) supplements called the Dungeon Crawl Classics (DCCs ...
Gillespie, Greg
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An American Knightmare: Joker, Fandom, and Malicious Movie Meaning-Making [PDF]
, 2023 This monograph concerns the long-standing communication problem of how individuals can identify and resist the influence of unethical public speakers.
Hammonds, Kyle A.
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Becoming a Fan: Reinventing, Repurposing, and Resisting in First-Year Composition [PDF]
, 2019 This thesis explores the cultural and pedagogical potential of the fanfiction community. The practices of recursive peer feedback, reinvention as invention, and production of subversive narratives via repurposing posits the fanfiction community a ...
Mcclantoc, Keshia
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Dobby the Robot: the Science Fiction in \u3ci\u3eHarry Potter\u3c/i\u3e [PDF]
, 2019 Science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke has famously argued that “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” This paper starts by exploring a few general ways in which science fiction influences Harry Potter, then focuses ...
Strand, Emily
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Our Famous Blue Raincoat: The Phenomenon of Leonard Cohen and the Changing Discourses of Celebrity in Canada [PDF]
, 2018 The history of Leonard Cohen’s career over the last sixty years is also a reflection of the development of contemporary celebrity culture in Canada.
Fillmore-Handlon, Charlotte Jane
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Improving Instruction: Metaliteracy through Crowdsourcing in the Classroom [PDF]
, 2014 Crowdsourcing is cooperation between individuals to create content. This allows for multiple insights into a problem to reach a more complete answer. Metaliteracy is “a unified construct that supports the acquisition, production, and sharing of knowledge
Gibson, Chris, Stonebraker, Ilana R
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Women\u27s Shakespeare Clubs: Fandom in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century America [PDF]
In 1929, as recorded and distributed in the Shakespeare Association Bulletin, a member of the Hathaway Shakespeare Club of Philadelphia explained that what drew her and her fellow club members together to discuss and analyze the works of the Bard each ...
Herrnson, Alana
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Alain Boillat, Cinéma, machine à mondes [PDF]
, 2015 C’est un ouvrage imposant, dans tous les sens du terme, qu’a publié Alain Boillat – ni plus ni moins que la mise au jour (provisoirement) définitive de thèmes névralgiques de la science-fiction et de représentations croisées fondamentales entre ...
Denis, Sébastien
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“You Could Hear a Hair Pin Drop”: Queer Utopianism and Informal Knowledge Production in the Gaylor Closeting Conspiracy Theory [PDF]
Rumors about Taylor Swift’s sexuality have persisted since the early days of her career. They have coalesced into an online subculture known as “Gaylor.” Gaylor is a novel kind of conspiracy theory known as a “Closeting Conspiracy Theory” (CCT).
Eadon, Yvonne M.
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Format Matters: Standards, Practices, and Politics in Media Cultures [PDF]
, 2020 From TIFF files to TED talks, from book sizes to blues stations - the term "format" circulates in a staggering array of contexts and applies to entirely dissimilar objects and practices.
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