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  Archetypal Characters and their Narrative Function: Iron Maiden, the Consciousness Raising Character

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  Deborah A Macey Saint Louis University

  June 09, 2014

  6 comments

  is the least feminist aspect of the series. The child archetype is naïve, optimistic, and dim-witted, ...
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  "Blanche, Will You Marry Me?": The Golden Girls and Marriage Equality

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  Bridget Kies University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

  June 10, 2014

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  "Blanche, Will You Marry Me?": The Golden Girls and Marriage Equality LGBTQ rights LGBT Golden Girls Curator's Note In many respects, The Golden Girls was a forerunner in LGBT representations on primetime television. Throughout the series t ...
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  Re: "Blanche, Will You Marry Me?": The Golden Girls and Marriage Equality

  Another episode I love. (Are

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  Bridget Kies University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

  Wednesday, June 11, 2014 — 4:08 pm

  example during which the series gives at least an implicit nod of support to the LGBT community. ...
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  Queer Family Values

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  Annie Van Avery COLAGE

  June 20, 2014

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  Queer Family Values Queer Modern Family LGBTQ family values COLAGE Curator's Note One of the reasons I chose to highlight The Fosters, is that this is the first show on television that honors and authenticates queer family values. The Fosters, tackle ...
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  I take it you don't like Modern Family.

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  kellen kaiser COLAGE

  Wednesday, June 25, 2014 — 6:57 am

  consulting on "The Fosters," with absolutely no luck. I thought they should have at least one ...
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  LEGO-Based Paratextual Commodity Flow in Children’s Television

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  Matthew P. McAllister and Catherine Buck Penn State

  June 27, 2014

  4 comments

  television-programming guide in at least one market changed the name of the program from Ninjago to LEGO Ninjago: The ...
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  Gay Sexuality and AIDS in An Early Frost

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  Melanie Kohnen Lewis & Clark College

  August 04, 2014

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  a virus, but casual sex, and the best protection is a committed relationship—at least as long as both ...
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  The Blood is the Life/Death: Queer Contagion and Viral Vampirism in the Age of HIV/AIDS

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  Andrew Owens DePaul University

  August 05, 2014

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  horror HIV/AIDS and Television Curator's Note Beginning in the summer of 1981, a smattering of ... by beginning a headlining story stating unequivocally that the “lifestyle of some male homosexuals ... cancer,” at least until the HIV virus was was officially named as such in May 1986. ...
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  AIDS Narratives and Televisual Prophecy

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  Jeffrey Bennett University of Iowa

  August 06, 2014

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  AIDS Narratives and Televisual Prophecy politics of representation narrative AIDS Curator's Note The prophet is a reoccurring figure in popular films about AIDS. These personas seem prominent especially in productions created for HBO. In And the Band ...
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  Re: AIDS Narratives and Televisual Prophecy

  Thanks for the post, Jeff.

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  Kathleen Battles Oakland University

  Thursday, August 7, 2014 — 2:45 pm

  interesting in light of the fact that at least two of those forms (journalism and science) were slow in ...

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