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  Guts Don’t Come Cheap in the Cinématheque, Pal: Guilt, Pleasure, and America’s Funniest Home Videos

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  Jeremy Butler University of Alabama

  February 22, 2008

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  Guts Don’t Come Cheap in the Cinématheque, Pal: Guilt, Pleasure, and America’s Funniest Home Videos Youtube aesthetics pro-am guilty pleasures generative mechanisms Film Comment David Newman America's Funniest Home Videos reallity TV Bob Saget Full H ...
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  Transgression, Confession, and Ying Yang Twins’s “Wait (The Whisper Song)”

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  Michael Z. Newman University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee

  February 20, 2008

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  Transgression, Confession, and Ying Yang Twins’s “Wait (The Whisper Song)” Ying Yang Twins whiteness transgression taste race music masculinity hip hop guilty pleasures cultural capital affect Curator's Note Owning up to a guilty pleasure is a perfor ...
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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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  Cynicism Takes a Beach Trip: The Audience-Network Contract of Summer TV

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  Jeremy Mongeau N/A

  July 14, 2010

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  Cynicism Takes a Beach Trip: The Audience-Network Contract of Summer TV The O.C. guilty pleasures FOX Curator's Note /*-->*/ Conventional wisdom holds that winter audiences are held captive by the weather. So in this regard, the very idea of summe ...