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  Re: Okaeri: Living with your favorite character

  Really fascinating piece. I'm

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  Alexander Svensson Indiana University, Bloomington

  Wednesday, April 3, 2019 — 5:52 pm

  Really fascinating piece. I'm particularly struck by the loneliness and melancholic nature of these commericials; the male users are not only all shown to be living by themselves at home, but also seem to be distanced from and isolated amonst the cro ...
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  Re: Breaking Upwards: The Creative Uncoupling of Desiree Akhavan and Ingrid Jungermann

  Maria, I'm quite taken with

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  Colleen Laird University of British Columbia

  Thursday, November 14, 2019 — 9:10 pm

  Maria, I'm quite taken with the metaphors you are employing to think about our relationship with authorship! You've provided such a nice conpliment to Casey's writeup on Sunday. Borrowing your metaphors, I'm now thinking of the marketa ...
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  Re: Quantum of Solace, a dull reality

  I'll admit it, I'm a Quantum fan

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  Jayson Quearry Georgia State University

  Friday, November 6, 2020 — 10:27 pm

  I have always been a pretty stanch  Quantum of Solace  supporter, so I'm really happy to hear it improved on a rewatch for you, Daniel.  That one-two punch of  Casino  and  Quantum  might be the most emotionally resonant pairing in the entire Bond ca ...
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  Lady Gaga's Phallicity

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  Karin Sellberg and Michael O'Rourke The University of Queensland; Independent Colleges Dublin

  August 05, 2010

  7 comments

  Lady Gaga's Phallicity gender Lady Gaga phallus queer telephone Curator's Note What has Lady Gaga got to do with the future of queer theory, gender theory and the phallus? We argue that the first 2 minutes and 13 seconds of the uncut version of ...
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  Owning Her Abjection: Lena Dunham's Queer Feminist Sexual Politics

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  Maria San Filippo Emerson College

  January 07, 2013

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  Owning Her Abjection: Lena Dunham's Queer Feminist Sexual Politics Catherine Breillat feminist girls HBO Julia Kristeva Lena Dunham nudity queer the abject the body Curator's Note From the 2007 YouTube short featuring her bikini-clad and brushin ...
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  “Barack OBollywood”: Afro-Asian Connections on the Viral Video Trail

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  Shalini Shankar Northwestern University

  April 30, 2008

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  “Barack OBollywood”: Afro-Asian Connections on the Viral Video Trail Youtube viral video United States race President politics masculinity elections CamPain 2008 Bollywood Asian American Curator's Note In December 2007, 22 year old white American vir ...
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  Multiracial Battlestar Galactica

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  Brander Rasmussen Birgit University of Wisconsin, Madison

  July 11, 2007

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  Multiracial Battlestar Galactica race Sci-fi Battlestar Galactica miscegenation otherness diversity Curator's Note In this moment of crisis, the camera pans over the faces of many key characters revealing a crew that includes men and women of many ra ...
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  On Political Satire: ‘Ha-Ha’ Funny or Contemptuously So?

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  Jeffrey P. Jones Old Dominion University

  July 24, 2007

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  On Political Satire: ‘Ha-Ha’ Funny or Contemptuously So? satire George W. Bush politics FOX fandom Comedy Central Gulliver’s Travels Half-Hour News Hour humor Daily Show Lil Bush criticism animation Little Rascals Jon Stewart contempt anti-fandom Rory Bre ...
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  What Happens in Vegas

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  Derek Kompare Southern Methodist University

  July 31, 2007

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  What Happens in Vegas CSI on location cultural geography Las Vegas space/place crime drama Curator's Note Television settings tend to be generic “spaces,” rather than “places.” Like the city of popular imagination, however, CSI ’s Las Vegas is a cruc ...
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  Mothers and Daughters: Watching The Gilmore Girls

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  Barbara Selznick University of Arizona

  February 19, 2008

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  Mothers and Daughters: Watching The Gilmore Girls gender representation WB melodrama Gilmore Girls auto-ethnography affect motherhood ideology guilty pleasures Curator's Note I wait until late in the semester to tell my students that I was a loyal vi ...

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