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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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  “Money, Shame and Reparation: A Moment from The Sopranos”

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  Jason Jacobs University of Queensland

  June 28, 2007

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  character and camera at the beginning of the scene and at its end. Tony’s exuberant confidence in the space ... in female form, which are prominent at the beginning and in subsequent shots. Perhaps they lead us ...
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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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  Sunday driver: What does AMC's scheduling say about its branding?

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  Andrew Daglas ChicagoNow.com

  November 03, 2011

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  back at least to The Sopranos, which aired its first-run episodes on Sundays between 1999 and 2007. ...
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  Storytelling and the Role of Imagination in Educational Children's TV of the 1980s

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  Caroline Ferris Leader University of Texas at Austin

  February 01, 2012

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  in its storytelling, manifesting both visual and narrative limitlessness—or at least variety. As seem ...
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  Hung Out to Dry: HBO’s Cancellation Habit

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  Maya Montanez Smukler UCLA & The New School

  May 14, 2012

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  turned pimp. The scrappy duo begin by mixing business with pleasure and at program’s end find true ...
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  'Enlightened' or Not?: How HBO Learned to Trust Its Viewers But Not Its Shows

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  Maria San Filippo Emerson College

  May 15, 2012

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  'Enlightened' or Not?: How HBO Learned to Trust Its Viewers But Not Its Shows Enlightened HBO Save Our Show Curator's Note HBO and flashier rival Showtime became powerhouses by programming series so provocative or pedigreed that non-subscri ...
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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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  The Price of Privilege: HBO's Girls and the Logic of Post-

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  Chris Tokuhama University of Southern California

  January 11, 2013

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  an easy word to toss around and is somewhat unhelpful until we begin to break it down:  a sense of ...
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  Nasty, Brutish, and Short: "Game of Thrones," History, and the Violence of Women's Lives

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  Thomas J. West III Syracuse University

  September 24, 2014

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  events, and its people (or at least their worlviews) are drawn from and based on those in the one we ...

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