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  Let’s Bloop This: The Paradox of Authenticity in the Blooper Reel

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  Annie.Berke Los Angeles Review of Books

  September 23, 2021

  Schitt’s Creek, showcased above, begin with the title card: “Unfortunately, we had no fun shooting this ... bloops (or “breaks”). The difference between “blooper reel” and “gag reel” begins to confront this, as ... mediated form of the creative oopsie “real” – at least, while maintaining a straight face? ...
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  What Makes a Real Man "Real?": Advertising Authentic Masculinity in Men's Grooming Ads

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  kaiprins University of Wisconsin - Madison

  September 20, 2021

  begin using this same strategy to other demographics – including cisgender, heterosexual men.   Although ... and discourage “toxic” ones, as well as in their inclusive casting, we have to ask (or, at least ...
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  ContraPoints Responds to Nanette: Authenticity and Self-Deprecating Humor

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  Dale Tracy Royal Military College of Canada

  April 21, 2019

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  experience, but to further the argument. ContraPoints begins her video as the embodiment of the dark humor she ...
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  Voice of a Generation?: The Potential of Authenticity in HBO’s Girls

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  Raechel Tiffe University of Minnesota

  January 15, 2013

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  show’s creator, Lena Dunham) proclaims that she’s “the voice of [her] generation…or at least a voice of ...