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  Barbie’s Feminisms?

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  Pamela Thoma Washington State University

  January 31, 2024

  (Rand), at times turning them against or at least playing with apparent intentions (I enjoyed making ... (Bingham 5-6). Interpreting Barbie and its representation of Barbie celebrity at least in part as ... appointment. The film ends, as it begins, with the birth—and rebirth—of Barbie.”   Sources Referenced ...
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  Not Just a Sports Film: Spike Lee‘s Layered Contexts and Implications in He Got Game

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  Dafna Kaufman The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  November 26, 2017

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  thorough dissection and examination.     The credits begin with a shot of an open field, filled with golden ...
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  Dreaming of Qatar: The Spectacle and Fantasies of World Cup 2022

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  Michael Butterworth Ohio University

  October 24, 2014

  Cup, capitalism Curator's Note The 2014 World Cup will be remembered for many things, not least of ...
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  Eating Settler-Colonialism: A meditation

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  Remy Yi Siang Low University of Sydney

  November 10, 2017

  it mediates my relationships to others, not least by plugging me into a machine built on the attempted (and ...
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  Maintaining the Neoliberal Home: Reproducing the Self through the Body of the Other

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  Corey Couch Georgia State University

  September 23, 2025

  with their likenesses one by one as they, themselves, begin to move up and down in social ... narrative that begins the shift from a classical organization (separation) into a neoliberal structure ... looked at as they continuously move locations— at least they’re never ungrounded, untethered, without the ...
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  “I am Free Enterprise:” The Resurgence of the Free Enterprise System

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  Elizabeth Heffelfinger Western Carolina University

  April 21, 2010

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  “I am Free Enterprise:” The Resurgence of the Free Enterprise System free enterprise campaign capitalism Curator's Note At the end of World War II, wealthy industrialists, corporate executives, educators and filmmakers joined a campaign to teach Amer ...
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  Perpetuating the American Dream through Investment Television

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  Emma Frances Bloomfield University of Nevada, Las Vegas

  January 12, 2016

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  Perpetuating the American Dream through Investment Television Tokenism reality television capitalism American dream Curator's Note To determine whether the American Dream is alive and well, one could turn on the television and watch an investment tel ...
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  A hair of the dog that bit us

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  Adrian Ivakhiv University of Vermont

  August 31, 2011

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  A hair of the dog that bit us Steven Shaviro's Post-Cinematic Affect Shaviro cultural theory cinema capitalism Curator's Note Post-Cinematic Affect is a work of “affective mapping” for a world of neoliberal, networked and hypermediated, endlessl ...
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  Love as Generalized Competition in 28 Hotel Rooms

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  Adam Cottrel Georgia State University

  April 03, 2015

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  Love as Generalized Competition in 28 Hotel Rooms neo-liberalism love liquidity competition cinema capitalism Curator's Note Matt Ross’s debut feature, 28 Hotel Rooms  (2012), takes love as a thematic starting point to question the nature of contempo ...
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  The Impossible Dream: Fake Sports Online

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  Gregory Zinman New York University

  July 06, 2010

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  The Impossible Dream: Fake Sports Online fake sports capitalism Bazin Curator's Note For an assignment in the Sports on Film class I taught this summer, one of my students posted a clip on the class blog of a seemingly impossible feat: a man rocketin ...