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  Re: Black Moses Barbie and the Humor of Black Trauma

  (Online) Art Models Change

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  Vicki Callahan usc

  Friday, December 5, 2014 — 9:05 pm

  and incisive, and explodes any assumptions regarding the possibilities of “positive” models within the ...
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  Forget the Pain- Indulge for Change

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  Emily Kofoed Georgia State University

  December 10, 2014

  yet it raised a substantial amount of money and received a fair amount of press. I’m interested in how ...
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  Philan-selfie: Attribution Vs. Contribution

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  Lindsay Bosch Video Data Bank

  December 12, 2014

  2 comments

  surrounding #YesAllWomen, #BringBackOurGirls and #Kony2012 evidenced a possible colonization of causes that ...
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  Can the Sidekick Protest? The Dissonant Sidekick and the Limits of Representing Difference in Contemporary Media

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  Jeff Casey University of Wisconsin-Madison

  December 16, 2014

  8 comments

  Can the Sidekick Protest? The Dissonant Sidekick and the Limits of Representing Difference in Contemporary Media gender genre homosocial frienship homosociality Race and Representation sidekicks whiteness Curator's Note Gore Verbinski’s The Lone Rang ...
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  Re: Can the Sidekick Protest? The Dissonant Sidekick and the Limits of Representing Difference in Contemporary Media

  I Basically Agree but...

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  Jeff Casey University of Wisconsin-Madison

  Tuesday, December 16, 2014 — 11:14 pm

  resignation asking, “But who am I to argue...?” Here I’m projecting my own discomfort onto the film and Tonto ... specifically, imagining the character as expressing my desire for escape, but I don’t think I’m alone in this ... granted that at the outset, I’m interested in the way the film’s own logic collapses on itself in ...
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  Heroes, Sidekicks, and Powerful Love

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  Lisa Perks Nazareth College

  December 17, 2014

  3 comments

  Heroes, Sidekicks, and Powerful Love Star Wars sidekicks love Lord of the Rings Heroes harry potter Curator's Note The word sidekick connotes unequal power relations: sidekicks are a hero’s support staff, his or her assistants. A closer analysis of t ...
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  Re: Can the Sidekick Protest? The Dissonant Sidekick and the Limits of Representing Difference in Contemporary Media

  to make a short story long

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  Jeff Casey University of Wisconsin-Madison

  Wednesday, December 17, 2014 — 6:01 am

  from the sidekick. I’m interested in how a "post-closet” culture (to use Steven Seidman’s term) ...
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  Re: Heroes, Sidekicks, and Powerful Love

  Structures...

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  Jeff Casey University of Wisconsin-Madison

  Thursday, December 18, 2014 — 2:19 am

  (Jedi and wizard) in part due to a sort of birthright and prophesied destiny. (I’m actually not that up ...
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  Joan Watson Deserves Better: Audience Reception and the Gender Politics of TV Sidekickdom

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  Natasha Patterson Simon Fraser Unversity

  December 18, 2014

  5 comments

  Joan Watson Deserves Better: Audience Reception and the Gender Politics of TV Sidekickdom TV sidekicks Joan Watson gender politics Elementary Audience reception Curator's Note After Elementary ’s strong and critically well-received first season, Dr. ...
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  A Certain Bromance

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  Sammi Dittloff University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

  December 19, 2014

  1 comment

  A Certain Bromance Simon Pegg Nick Frost Jonah Hill Edgar Wright Channing Tatum Bromance Curator's Note What is the key to a perfect bromance? And what, exactly, is a bromance? Buddy comedies have been around for a long time, but it hasn’t been until ...

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