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Covid - Day Three

Day three has been alright so far. Last night, again, my only issue sleeping was my wrecked throat. A bought me some chloraseptic today; I imagine that will help tonight.

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Covid - Day Two

My second day of Covid. The good news-A tested this morning and so far continues to come up negative. The bad news-I feel like butt.

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Covid - Day One

I made it several years into the Covid-19 pandemic without catching the virus. Unfortunately, my time has come.

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What is Genre?

A concept that is has been popping up in recent posts is genre. It's not surprising, as genre is central not only to film--increasingly, the focus of this blog--but to rhetoric and writing studies, my academic home. But what *is* genre?

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Superheroes: Ritual or Ideology?

I read something fascinating in Rick Altman's book that I discussed in [another recent post](/film/men/). He talked about two ways that critics tend to look at film's social dimension. These are as ritual or as ideology.

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