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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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Infinite Auditions: Dance as Data Set and Habit

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Anna Beatrice Scott University of California -- Riverside

December 07, 2007

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Infinite Auditions: Dance as Data Set and Habit appropriation performance race competition dance video games the body MMOG Curator's Note Bodiless bodies are stacked inside the rhythm and moves; fleshless dancers skim keys eliding their epidermal rea ...

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Colonial migrations in Sembene’s La Noire de…

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Sada Niang University of Victoria

April 11, 2008

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and proscribed of taking care of itself. Coming at the beginning of Sembene’s career, Diouana’s La ...

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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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Fantastic Journey, Emotional Journey: Mobile Media as Emotive Performance

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Elizabeth Evans University of Nottingham

February 18, 2010

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Fantastic Journey, Emotional Journey: Mobile Media as Emotive Performance public space performance mobile media identity emotion Curator's Note Mobile phones have long been the focus of discussions concerning their role in identity construction. Hand ...

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Lady Gaga and the High Heels of New Feminism

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Madison Moore Yale University

August 04, 2010

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Lady Gaga and the High Heels of New Feminism Queer Performance pop music performance Lady Gaga Grammy's Drag Armani Curator's Note Lady Gaga showed up at the 2010 Grammy Awards in a dress that was as fabulous as it was hazardous. Designed by Arm ...

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Dance, Girl, Dance!: Performance & Class Mobility in Disney’s Shake It Up

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Morgan Blue The University of Texas at Austin

September 11, 2012

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Dance, Girl, Dance!: Performance & Class Mobility in Disney’s Shake It Up TV Pilots Shake It Up performance girls Disney dance class Curator's Note In the first few minutes of the pilot for Disney Channel sitcom Shake It Up, lead characters, Rock ...

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Carax's Oneiric Drive

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Elena Gorfinkel King's College London

December 11, 2013

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Carax's Oneiric Drive reverie poetics performance oneirism metamorphosis materiality Leos Carax Gaston Bachelard Denis Lavant cinematic thinking art cinema Curator's Note Philosopher and scientist Gaston Bachelard produced an immense and overloo ...

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Orphan Black and the Performance Text of Attractions

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R. Colin Tait Texas Christian University

April 07, 2014

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Orphan Black and the Performance Text of Attractions Television Acting Tatiana Maslany performance Orphan Black Curator's Note Quality Television depends on quality acting. Period. Though new titles in TV Studies scholarship- such as Elana Levine a ...

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