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  Friday Night Whites — Nighttime Drama Don’t Respect My Conway Twitty

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  Kelly Kessler DePaul University

  March 23, 2007

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  jobs in strip clubs and burger joints. The sitcom Earl appears—at least to me—to embrace those I often ...
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  Can TV See Class? Or How I learned to Stop Worrying and Believe in the American Dream

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  Robert Cannon California State University, Los Angeles

  September 23, 2011

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  episode, at least one scene reminded viewers that, despite what the American dream implies, those born into ...
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  Citizens’ Media in Southern Colombia

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  Clemencia Rodriguez University of Oklahoma

  December 13, 2007

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  Citizens’ Media in Southern Colombia labor class alternative media Columbia Los Raspachines Curator's Note The English translation of the text in the video is: “Fabián, Juan Carlos, Mono and Yason present to you “Los Raspachines” (term used in Colomb ...
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  Dance, Girl, Dance!: Performance & Class Mobility in Disney’s Shake It Up

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  Morgan Blue The University of Texas at Austin

  September 11, 2012

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  Dance, Girl, Dance!: Performance & Class Mobility in Disney’s Shake It Up TV Pilots Shake It Up performance girls Disney dance class Curator's Note In the first few minutes of the pilot for Disney Channel sitcom Shake It Up, lead characters, Rock ...