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  Re: Commoditized Visibility: Coca-Cola, The World Cup, and the People

  Symbolic Property

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  Christopher M. Toula Georgia State University

  Wednesday, October 22, 2014 — 2:26 pm

  possibilities as well as the various paths those narratives can take. I think you're on to something when ... that actively police possible meanings. Its as though meaning is now subject to vertical integration in ...
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  Re: Batgirl and Feminism: the 1972 Equal Pay Act PSA

  Batgirl? It's HER Show

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  Christopher M. Cox Georgia State University

  Thursday, February 5, 2015 — 4:18 am

  margins of possibility and, despite the upstanding portrayal in the trailer, Batgirl is primarily used as ... a narrative wedge to befuddle Bat-Mite. Even the mere possibility of a Batgirl series can only be conceived in ...
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  From Lovebot to War Bride: Race, Family and Citizenship in Battlestar Galactica

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  LeiLani Nishime Sonoma State University

  May 02, 2008

  4 comments

  seen as racialized anger (“You hate me for what I am. You hate me for where I’m from.”) What, too, are ...
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  “You Got No Idea What’s Goin’ On On That Island!”: What SNL Can Teach Us About Lost

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  Ivan Askwith Big Spaceship

  February 13, 2008

  5 comments

  gender focus, but I’m willing to bet it’s not an accidental one.) ...
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  A Double Drabble* of Bugger All: On Monty Python’s Galaxy Song

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  John Hartley Queensland University of Technology (Australia)

  November 23, 2007

  1 comment

  who’s into something that requires an operational brain and some creativity. ' I’m not a fan of ...
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  Can Catwoman Challenge Patriarchy?

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  Michael Lecker George Mason University

  September 28, 2007

  Batman driven narrative? What ideologies is Selina questioning with such quotes as “Tell me I’m not in ...
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  Transgression, Confession, and Ying Yang Twins’s “Wait (The Whisper Song)”

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  Michael Z. Newman University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee

  February 20, 2008

  1 comment

  cultural values and norms. I think this last benefit in particular is what I’m getting from telling you how ...
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  Re: After Macaca: Virginia’s Next Youtube Moment

  George Allen’s ‘06

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  Tuesday, November 13, 2007 — 12:26 am

  a thoughtless, racist comment seemed to be almost too good to be true. I’m pretty sure that deep down we all know ...
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  Re: Multiplatform Fame

  Digg, Web2.0, and Conspicuous (Information) Consumption

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  Max Dawson Indiana University

  Friday, February 20, 2009 — 2:04 am

  James – I’m really intrigued by this notion that achieving Internet fame is form of technological ...
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  Re: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the "Killer Condom"

  Who's bad?

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  James Daniel Elam Northwestern University

  Thursday, March 19, 2009 — 2:19 pm

  the way. Especially given the very comic, very cliché NYPD Italian cop name, I feel like I’m watching ...

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