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"Don't Shoot!" Hetero Masquerade on Project Runway

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Heather Hendershot City University of New York, Queens College

December 12, 2006

"Don't Shoot!" Hetero Masquerade on Project Runway performance queerness masculinity reality TV Project Runway rural Curator's Note In Season One of Project Runway, we learn surprisingly little about characters' backgrounds. It is ...

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“Define Good”: The Anxious Pleasures of Subscribing to HBO

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Avi Santo Old Dominion University

April 13, 2007

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“Define Good”: The Anxious Pleasures of Subscribing to HBO narrative branding HBO masculinity Rome genre quality TV masochism premium cable Curator's Note HBO’s anti-television branding strategies are also gendered affairs. If TV and its viewers have ...

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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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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

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Transgression, Confession, and Ying Yang Twins’s “Wait (The Whisper Song)” Ying Yang Twins whiteness transgression taste race music masculinity hip hop guilty pleasures cultural capital affect Curator's Note Owning up to a guilty pleasure is a perfor ...

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Righteous Anger and the Fear of a Black Planet in Taxi Driver

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Greg Oguss University of Southern California

March 20, 2008

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Righteous Anger and the Fear of a Black Planet in Taxi Driver race masculinity music 1970s Taxi Driver Robert Deniro Martin Scorsese blaxploitation Melvin Van Peebles Richard Roundtree miscegenation baclash Joan Mellen Kris Kristofferson Rolling Stones Cu ...

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Hulk Smash Wimpy White Man Who is Also Hulk: Reasserting Masculine Authority through Masochism

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Avi Santo Old Dominion University

March 21, 2008

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beginning of the pilot episode, initially seems idyllic, with Banner clearly epitomizing a softer, gentler, ...

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Yaari, men in drag, and gays: tracing the changing dynamics of queer male sexuality in popular Hindi cinema

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Sreya Mitra University of Wisconsin, Madison

April 24, 2008

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Yaari, men in drag, and gays: tracing the changing dynamics of queer male sexuality in popular Hindi cinema South Asian sexuality queerness Page 3 masculinity Life in a…Metro Bollywood Curator's Note Male homoeroticism in yaari (colloquial Hindi for ...

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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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