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Premium Blackness

Sunday, February 23, 2020 to Thursday, February 27, 2020

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Jazmine R. HudsonGeorgia State University

The HBO Show They Didn’t Get to Make: Comedy Central’s South Side

By Derrick A. Jones

Monday, February 24, 2020

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Hot Tops & (Fuse)d Bottoms: The Read with Kid Fury and Crissle’s Joining of Black and Queer Culture

By Jazmine R. Hudson

Tuesday, February 25, 2020

“Pass the Read like we used to do”: Podcasting, Reading, and Race in The Read

By Chvonne Parker

Tuesday, March 25, 2014

HBO’s Insecure: Cashing in on Premium Blackness

By Jade Petermon

Thursday, February 27, 2020

From the Bodega to Showtime: How Desus & Mero Promote An Everyman Image But For A Price

By Mychal Shanks

Friday, February 28, 2020

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Re: The HBO Show They Didn’t Get to Make: Comedy Central’s South Side

Oh! Now It’s Comedy...

By Jazmine R. Hudson

Tuesday, February 25, 2020 - 05:05

Thank you for your post. I'm am interested in thinking through what elevates street comedy like "the dozens" to a state of "premium blackness?" I'm thinking about the recent depiction of Rudy Ray Moore in Netflix's Dolemite. He was a comedian...
Re: The Conundrum of the Character-Driven Plot in Lost

Thank you for an interesting

By ameliaK

Wednesday, February 5, 2020 - 16:38

Thank you for an interesting writing! Dissertation writing is one of the most complicated and time-consuming writing assignments that students may encounter during their studying. Dissertation writing is an essential type of assignments that...
Re: Cam and Fears of Online Identity Theft

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By Joseph Owen Jackson

Wednesday, February 5, 2020 - 15:27

Edgar Allan Poe's short story William Wilson (1839) echoes Alice/Lola's unnerving and ultimately violent relationship with her doppelgänger. Really want to watch this film now - but am equally terrified to see what happens next...
Re: Peter Bloom on Peter Wollen

Wollen as Dissertation Committee Member

By Joshua Hirsch

Monday, January 20, 2020 - 18:39

Peter was on my dissertation committee at UCLA. When I announced I was writing on film and the Holocaust, it became clear that the Holocaust was one of the many subjects about which it turned out he had thought deeply and had a great deal of...
Re: Ain't No Passing Craze: Racialized Representations in Disney’s Animated Films

Thank you!

By Rebecca James

Tuesday, December 10, 2019 - 07:41

Thank you for your comment, I have never thought about those characters in that way. I have never thought to examine the use of varying working-class accents, nicknames, hobbies, in characterizations - which is such an interesting and unique take! I...