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  Erasing the Female Audience: Marketing to Men in McCarthy/Feig Movies

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  CateB Penn State University

  March 10, 2020

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  Erasing the Female Audience: Marketing to Men in McCarthy/Feig Movies Melissa McCarthy Paul Feig women's comedy movie posters Bridesmaids Curator's Note After the success of Bridesmaids (2011) actress Melissa McCarthy and director Paul Feig had ...
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  Re: The Labor Politics of Cameron Esposito and River Butchers 'Put Your Hands Together' Podcast

  Feminist comedy and labour

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  Madhavi Shivaprasad Advanced Centre for Women's Studies Tata Institute of Social Sciences Mumbai

  Tuesday, March 10, 2020 — 8:41 am

  kyriarchy. That it is possible for comics to speak of social justice while not completely being free of ...
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  Re: Erasing the Female Audience: Marketing to Men in McCarthy/Feig Movies

  Not "just a chick flick", not "just a gay flick"

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  Maria San Filippo Emerson College

  Wednesday, March 11, 2020 — 12:37 pm

  mindset). I’m glad our posts are on adjoining days, since your referencing the Ghostbusters reboot nicely ...
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  Facing Fleabag: Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s “Punch in the Heart”

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  Virginia Bonner Clayton State University

  March 13, 2020

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  Facing Fleabag: Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s “Punch in the Heart” Phoebe Waller-Bridge Fleabag Direct Address Curator's Note Fleabag is renowned for Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s ribald humor, bold sexuality, and striking use of direct address. Yet her direct add ...
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  Re: Facing Fleabag: Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s “Punch in the Heart”

  The gender politics of direct address

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  Maria San Filippo Emerson College

  Saturday, March 14, 2020 — 1:46 pm

  contemporaneous Chewing Gum (2015-2017), I’m curious to know how/if you read creator/star Michaela Coel’s own use ...
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  Reimagining Feminist Stand-up Post-Nanette

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  Muge Yuce

  March 16, 2020

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  the possibilities of being affected by others’ affective responses- such as laughing, cackling, ...
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  Avatar Selection as Queer Resistance in Pokemon Reborn

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  David Kocik

  March 25, 2020

  “certain identities possible, plausible, and livable.” (Shaw, 2014, 19). Similarly, Ian Bogost posits that ...
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  "Are you Out of Your Mind? No Ma'am...Are You?" Romero's Day of the Dead Challenging Reagan Era Ideology

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  Alexandra Nakelski zeitgeistfilmfest.org

  March 30, 2020

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  so. She is possibly the last woman on earth and last person who may have answers to the walking dead ...
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  Is Social Media Like the Coronavirus?

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  Maggie Hennefeld University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

  James Leo Cahill University of Toronto

  April 06, 2020

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  of the possible and what already exists in materialized nature.” (27) Pandemics are not just ... help us “reforge” the chain between what is increasingly virtual and what is materially possible, and ...
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  The Zoombie Apocalypse

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  Neta Alexander Colgate University

  April 11, 2020

  anxiety and an economy threatening to collapse. By making possible everything from yoga classes to ...

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