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Foreword: Riffing and You (and Riffing) |
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Introduction |
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1 There's Been an Accident at the Studio: How We Made Hobgoblins! |
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2 "Remember: Only you can prevent Roger Corman": The King of the Bs Under Siege |
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3 Communists and Cosmonauts in Mystery Science Theater 3000: De-Camping East Germany's First Spaceship on Venus/Silent Star |
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4 The Semiotics of Spaceflight on the Satellite of Love |
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46 | (9) |
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5 Resurrecting the Dead: Revival of Forgotten Films through Appropriation |
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6 Becoming "The Right People": Fan-Generated Knowledge Building |
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7 Converging Fan Cultures and the Labors of Fandom |
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8 "Consume excrement and thus expire": Conflict Resolution, "Fantagonism," and alt.tv.mst3k |
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9 Cinemasochism: Bad Movies and the People Who Love Them |
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101 | (9) |
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Part Four Media Texts, Audiences, and the Culture of Riffing |
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10 Double Poaching and the Subversive Operations of Riffing: "You kids with your hoola hoops and your Rosenbergs and your Communist agendas" |
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11 Frame Work, Resistance and Co-optation: How Mystery Science Theater 3000 Positions Us Both In and Against Hegemonic Culture |
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120 | (7) |
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12 "Not too different from you or me": The Paradox of Fiction, Joint Attention, and Longevity |
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127 | (8) |
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13 Mystery Science Theater 3000: A Media-Centered Exploration |
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135 | (5) |
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14 Authorship and Text Remediation in Mystery Science Theater 3000 |
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Part Five Mental Hygiene: The MST3K Shorts |
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15 "People were whiter back then": Film Placement and In-Theater Commentary as Sociopolitical Dialogue |
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16 The Endearing Educational Shorts |
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155 | (9) |
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17 Writing History with Riffs: The Historiography of the "Shorts" |
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164 | (8) |
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Part Six Satire and Gender |
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18 Robot Roll Call: Gypsy! (Hi Girls!) |
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19 What's the Difference? Satire and Separation in That "Little Puppet Show" |
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Part Seven Technology and Episode Collecting |
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20 The Design and Speculative Technology of MST3K: Joel Hodgson and Trace Beaulieu at MIT |
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184 | (13) |
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21 "Cambot Eye": The Synthesis of Man, Machine and Spectatorship |
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22 MSTies and Mastery: Circulating the Tapes in a Digital Age |
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Part Eight History and Pre-History |
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23 "Hamlet will return in Thunderball': Historical Precedents of Riffing |
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231 | (1) |
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24 From Techno-Isolation to Social Reconciliation |
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231 | (11) |
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25 Fishing with Cheese on a Blood Hook: MST3K's Unlikely Origins on a Lake in the Woods of Wisconsin |
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Afterword |
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About the Contributors |
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Index |
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