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  Re: Battlestar Galactica: Subversive Sci-Fi?

  Chris is right to point the

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  Roberta Pearson University of Nottingham (UK)

  Saturday, May 12, 2007 — 10:58 am

  viewers. We need to be aware of these contradictions when assessing the subversive possibilities of popular ...
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  It Rhymes with Smashsmortion

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  Craig O. Stewart Old Dominion University

  June 08, 2007

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  ill-considered one-night stand. The film barely considers any possibilities for Allison other than having the ... other respects (but perhaps somewhat overrated). So, I’m interested to hear from others--did anyone else ...
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  Nuts!: The Fan Campaign to Save Jericho

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  Chuck Tryon Fayetteville State University

  June 13, 2007

  rally support for the show and to make fan interest as visible as possible. Of course, the most ...
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  Girl Power: Revisited

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  Elizabeth Franko University of Houston

  June 15, 2007

  2 comments

  of Shampoo significantly shift the traditional construction of femininity and offer a possible source ...
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  Re: Girl Power: Revisited

  As Maureen Dowd would have

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  Monday, June 18, 2007 — 8:18 pm

  oblique) answer to Elizabeth Franko's questions, it's possible that the evolution of girl power ...
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  Re: “The Power to Entertain Yourself: Mobile Video Strikes Out (Again)”

  I'm fascinated by how a lot

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  Jonathan Gray University of Wisconsin - Madison

  Tuesday, June 19, 2007 — 1:59 am

  I'm fascinated by how a lot of ads like this try to sell such conspicuous and over the top signs of privilege and control: being able to tell women to shake their "junks" and so forth. Here, the fantasy of control and power is so redundant, ...
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  The Mouth Wants What It Wants

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  Dana Heller Old Dominion University

  June 22, 2007

  1 comment

  American diet-- suggests that it might be possible to reclaim a liberated, hyper-masculine subjectivity ... his underwear, and tosses them into a burning trash canister). Taken collectively, I’m interested in ...
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  You have options …

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  Janet McCabe and Kim Akass Manchester Metropolitan University

  June 26, 2007

  2 comments

  everything is possible with a gold credit card paid for by daddy, but surely the paradox speaks to a broader ...
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  The Winning Side?: Agent Harris and the FBI on HBO’s The Sopranos

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  Douglas Howard Suffolk County Community College

  June 27, 2007

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  The Winning Side?: Agent Harris and the FBI on HBO’s The Sopranos narrative ambiguity The Sopranos. HBO Paul Levinson closure Curator's Note While the “closure junkies,” as Paul Levinson recently called them on his Infinite Regress blog, continue to ...
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  Feminist Sopranos

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  Maurice Yacowar University of Calgary

  June 29, 2007

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  Feminist Sopranos HBO gender masculinity The Sopranos Curator's Note The drama opens on this sculpture in Dr Melfi's office. Tony is introduced as discomfited by Woman, indeed caught in its scissor. The old skirt-chaser fears the feminine. He� ...

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