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• In Media Res
  Re: Back to Nurture: Bear Bodies and The Tactile Tactics of Queer Masculinity

  Bear Trappings?

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  Kaelin B.C. Alexander Cornell University

  Tuesday, March 2, 2010 — 10:01 pm

  Thanks for this compassionate, thoughtful response. My gut reaction to the bear phenomenon is also a sense of optimism. Bear communities and discourses perform a lot of important—and, in the post-AIDS era in which they found their footing, literally vital ...
• In Media Res
  Re: Contemporary Male Masculinity in 30 Seconds

  Keeping Our Bases--and Asses--Covered

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  Kaelin B.C. Alexander Cornell University

  Tuesday, March 2, 2010 — 1:30 am

  Thanks for this great selection of ads! Reflecting on these ads, on my own favorite anxious masculinity advertisement  (for beer, appropriately), and on the theme of this week’s IMR, I’m left wondering: Do contemporary masculinities have to (either litera ...
• In Media Res
  Re: The girls have caught up to the boys

  What a find, Robert! Not only

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  Kaelin B.C. Alexander Cornell University

  Thursday, March 4, 2010 — 1:26 am

  What a find, Robert! Not only does this clip give us the most confused metaphor of "advancement" possible, it also regurgitates, almost flawlessly, the predictable rhetoric of moral panic surrounding the figure of the Child. As with similar disc ...
• In Media Res
  Re: The Link Prank: A Legacy of the Internet Cowboy

  closed circuits

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  Kaelin B.C. Alexander Cornell University

  Friday, March 5, 2010 — 5:23 am

   I guess what strikes me most about chatroulette, as this video illustrates, is that users are both content consumers and generators at the same time. So, while it does away fairly quickly with something like unreconstructed gaze theory--the guys here are ...
• In Media Res
  Re: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the "Killer Condom"

  Now I want "Killer Condom 2: Ribbed for Her Terror"

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  Kaelin B.C. Alexander Cornell University

  Friday, March 20, 2009 — 3:12 am

  Thanks, everyone for such great feedback!  I'm consistently amazed at the ways in which these texts are in conversation even before we enter the picture. After some reflection on your posts, I think it's clear that Killer Condom highlights the d ...
• In Media Res
  Re: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the "Killer Condom"

  Queer. Srsly?

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  Kaelin B.C. Alexander Cornell University

  Friday, March 20, 2009 — 7:02 pm

  Thanks, Jeff, for your frightfully suggestive comments. I too am wondering now what such an "earnestly" gay horror film might look like. Jocelyn was quite apt to bring up Teeth which, in some senses, seems like an earnestly feminist response to ...
• In Media Res
  Re: What Bad Does

  A richness of badness. With dragons!

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  Kaelin B.C. Alexander Cornell University

  Friday, March 20, 2009 — 8:43 pm

  Thank you, Daniel, for an amazingly good post about an awesomely bad video! I especially like the link you make between “badness” and commercial success. I wonder how this kind of commercial success compares to the successes of unironic or inadvertent bad ...
• In Media Res
  Re: Bollywood Bad: Toward an Aesthetics of the Failed Future

  I See What They Did There

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  Kaelin B.C. Alexander Cornell University

  Tuesday, March 17, 2009 — 4:56 pm

  Bart, this is a great a piece. I was really looking forward to it, and you've really hit the nail on the head with your description of how futurity ends up operating in a lot of fiction. What passes itself off as simple escapism in fact has a lot to ...
• In Media Res
  Re: Anxious Coed Spontaneous Fried-Chicken Dance Party

  In Bed With Genre

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  Kaelin B.C. Alexander Cornell University

  Tuesday, March 17, 2009 — 1:48 am

  Thanks, Jeff, for a great post! Reading this over, and looking ahead to the other presentations this week, I'm wondering if part of the "badness" and “unreality” of the films we're looking at isn't in some respects thoroughly caug ...
• In Media Res
  Re: Some movies are bad, but some are undead: Watchmen

  Dude, Where's My Space Squid?

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  Kaelin B.C. Alexander Cornell University

  Wednesday, March 18, 2009 — 5:07 pm

  Jocelyn, thank you for a wonderful, timely post. I think you’re especially apt to point out the ways in which Watchmen might simply not translate that well from one medium to another. A lot has been made about Snyder’s supposed faithfulness to the source ...