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  What Would Nancy Do? Jenji Kohan’s Female Anti-Hero

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  Maya Montanez Smukler UCLA & The New School

  March 11, 2014

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  What Would Nancy Do? Jenji Kohan’s Female Anti-Hero television Orange is the New Black, Anti-Hero Curator's Note In TV’s last decade, there has been much talk about the female anti-hero. Tony Soprano and Walter White’s bad behavior is beyond reproach ...
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  Orange Is the New Black and the Women’s Prison Genre

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  Vernon Shetley Wellesley College

  March 13, 2014

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  Orange Is the New Black and the Women’s Prison Genre “Women’s Prison Film” “Lesbianism in Film” “Genre” OITNB Curator's Note The women’s prison genre has, over its many decades, spawned a substantial body of recurring tropes. These include sadistic a ...
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  Re: Orange Is the New Black and the Women’s Prison Genre

  The discourse on class in (the) prison (genre)

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  Maria San Filippo Emerson College

  Thursday, March 13, 2014 — 4:03 pm

  Great post, Vernon. I’m glad you brought up the important role that class plays in the women’s ...
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  The Essence of a Women's Prison: Where Orange Is the New Black Falls Short

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  Daisy Ball Framingham State University

  March 14, 2014

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  industrial complex,” and I’m afraid it misses that chance. Because OITNB is based on Piper Kerman’s memoir, ...
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  Re: What Would Nancy Do? Jenji Kohan’s Female Anti-Hero

  Crazy/Sexy/Cool

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  Sasha T. Goldberg Indiana University Bloomington

  Sunday, March 16, 2014 — 5:47 pm

  empowered (and powerful?) state. At least in light of the show, this transition is only possible when in an ...
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  The Many Texts of Textless Paratexts

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  Johannes Mahlknecht University of Innsbruck, Austria

  March 17, 2014

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  trailer only funny if we know the source it's adapting. The line, "I’m here because I’m ...
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  Displacing Meaning: Parodic Ads “Without texts”

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  Taylor Nygaard University of Denver

  March 18, 2014

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  sort. Yet, I’m interested in exploring the role that a parodic paratext, which doesn’t lay claim to ...
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  Re: The Many Texts of Textless Paratexts

  unwittingly spawned?

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  Taylor Nygaard University of Denver

  Tuesday, March 18, 2014 — 5:12 pm

  these types of trailers as becoming a deliberate tool for pitching or selling a possible franchise, ...
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  UNWITTING VS. "WITTING" TRAILERS

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  Johannes Mahlknecht University of Innsbruck, Austria

  Wednesday, March 19, 2014 — 2:26 pm

  the film versions of "Battleship" and "Monopoly" (and possibly other such ...
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  Black Twitter- Contagious Hashtags

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  Sanjay Sharma Brunel University

  March 27, 2014

  such as Facebook et al don’t exhibit the technological affordances that can make possible ‘Black ... While Twitter is a vast social network it exhibits a ‘small world’ phenomenon: the possibility of ... production of contagious social connections. Black Twitter multiplies the possibilities of being raced ...

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