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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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  “You Got No Idea What’s Goin’ On On That Island!”: What SNL Can Teach Us About Lost

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  Ivan Askwith Big Spaceship

  February 13, 2008

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  stereotyped representation of gendered concerns and interests: at least in this elevator, men care about plot, ...
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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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  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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  “Speaking American: Cultural Expressions of Race and Nationality in Harold and Kumar”

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  Shilpa Dave Brandeis University

  April 28, 2008

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  “Speaking American: Cultural Expressions of Race and Nationality in Harold and Kumar” satire race gender South Asian Asian-American film trailer transcoding Curator's Note “Speaking American: Cultural Expressions of Race and Nationality in Harold and ...
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  It' so butch and femme: Reexamining Gender Representation on "The L Word"

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  Gina Mitchell Bates College

  September 21, 2009

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  It' so butch and femme: Reexamining Gender Representation on "The L Word" performance gender representation The L Word homophobia butch/femme heteronormativity The Palms Curator's Note  The controversy surrounding gender representation ...
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  What Fangirls Want: Making More of and More from Marvel's Men

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  Kayley Thomas University of Florida

  May 11, 2012

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  What Fangirls Want: Making More of and More from Marvel's Men women The Avengers participatory culture media studies kayley thomas gender fanvid fandom Fan Studies fan fiction comics Curator's Note Some might say The Avengers ’ record-breaking d ...
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  Gravity Falls as a Transgenerational Cultural Forum

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  Molly Sharp The Ohio State University

  October 10, 2012

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  assume that at least some younger viewers born after the Cold War would not fully understand the ...
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  Crafting Croft: Avatars, Identity, Representation

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  Linzi Juliano University of California, Los Angeles

  March 14, 2013

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  center around “realness”; in fact, the game begins with her preparing to star in a reality TV show. Since ...
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  Can the Sidekick Protest? The Dissonant Sidekick and the Limits of Representing Difference in Contemporary Media

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  Jeff Casey University of Wisconsin-Madison

  December 16, 2014

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  Can the Sidekick Protest? The Dissonant Sidekick and the Limits of Representing Difference in Contemporary Media gender genre homosocial frienship homosociality Race and Representation sidekicks whiteness Curator's Note Gore Verbinski’s The Lone Rang ...

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