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Featured: Top of Home Page/Games/Moving Pixels

Is High School Really So Horrible?

By
G. Christopher Williams
/ 6 July 2016
Extinction of Identity in the Persona Series
Featured: Top of Home Page/Games/Moving Pixels

Extinction of Identity in the Persona Series

By
G. Christopher Williams
/ 18 February 2016

Sometimes growing up can feel a little like killing yourself. The Persona video games capture that extinction of identity.

Some Memories Just Won’t Be Released in ‘Unfriended’
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Some Memories Just Won’t Be Released in ‘Unfriended’

By
Jon Lisi
/ 11 August 2015

Unfriended successfully updates horror movie conventions for a social media savvy audience.

Culture/Featured: Top of Home Page/Features/Film

How to Be a Film Snob: On ‘High’ (as in Getting) Culture

By
Molly Brown
/ 16 October 2012
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We Are the City: High School EP

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Zachary Houle
/ 8 May 2011
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Paul Murray’s ‘Skippy Dies’: Hogwarts This Is Not

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Chris Barsanti
/ 6 October 2010
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Underdogs Unite: ‘Girl in Translation’

By
Catherine Ramsdell
/ 15 June 2010

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