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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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  The Last Lion King of Scotland

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  Davis Jung Brown University

  April 12, 2007

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  The Last Lion King of Scotland Africa representation stereotyping mashup praxis Lion King Last King of Scotland Must Love Jaws Ten Things I Hate About Commandments deconstruction Curator's Note With the age of the internet and such websites as YouTub ...
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  Queer Coding in ReGenesis

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  Kristina Busse Independent Scholar

  June 05, 2007

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  television’s habitual shorthand where queer characters are defined (or at least driven) by their sexual ...
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  Yellow Fever: Born Digital on Battlestar Galactica

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  Lisa Nakamura University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign

  July 09, 2007

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  Yellow Fever: Born Digital on Battlestar Galactica stereotyping Sci-fi representation race digital Battlestar Galactica Asian Curator's Note Sharon Valerii, played by Korean-Canadian actress Grace Park, is a young, pretty, highly educated Asian woman ...
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  SíTV and the emergence of English-language Latino television networks

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  Juan Pinon New York University

  November 15, 2007

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  SíTV and the emergence of English-language Latino television networks globalization race Latinos representation cable language political economy SiTV LATV Yo Voy MTr3s Mun2 Jeff Valdez Brother Garcia bilingualism The Rub Curator's Note English-speaki ...
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  Jesus 2.0: Christian Identity and Community on Godtube

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  Allison Perlman University of California-Irvine

  December 12, 2007

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  Jesus 2.0: Christian Identity and Community on Godtube Featured viral videos social networking representation religion participation parody Mac-PC Godtube convergence consumerism Christian media alternative media Curator's Note Founded by Dallas Theo ...
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  Mothers and Daughters: Watching The Gilmore Girls

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  Barbara Selznick University of Arizona

  February 19, 2008

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  Mothers and Daughters: Watching The Gilmore Girls gender representation WB melodrama Gilmore Girls auto-ethnography affect motherhood ideology guilty pleasures Curator's Note I wait until late in the semester to tell my students that I was a loyal vi ...
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  Projecting Nigeria

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  Brian Larkin Barnard College

  April 08, 2008

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  Projecting Nigeria Uzodinma Okpechi The Master representation Orientalism Nollywood Nkem Oweh Nigeria music media capitals I Go Chop Your Money globalization corruption controversy Afrocentrism Africa Curator's Note In 2005 a controversy broke out on ...
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  Britz: Muslims and Postmodern Media after 9/11

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  Ashwani Sharma University of East London

  April 16, 2008

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  media, or conversely, the nationalisation of diaspora, at least in the UK, maybe changes how we ...
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  “Jumping Your Bones Was Extremely Atypical For Me”

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  Ben Aslinger Bentley University

  April 21, 2008

  4 comments

  possibility for out producers in the beginnings of the post-network era. While acknowledging that gay people ...

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