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  Re: I Lie, I Cheat, I Steal: An Examination of Eddie Guerrero and WWE Cultural Appropriation

  Is It Ever "Ok" to Pay Your Dues?

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  Garret Castleberry Mid-America Christian University

  Friday, October 9, 2015 — 2:52 am

  Cheat, Steal" mantra follows the in-ring flavor patented (televisually at least) by Ric Flair but ...
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  Re: That’s Not Funny! : Cultural Capital and Comedic Critique

  Carnivalesque Rape Threats

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  Benjamin Kole Aspray Northwestern University

  Saturday, June 18, 2016 — 1:40 pm

  articulated at least in part by West is that, on the contrary, rape jokes reaffirm dominant power structures ...
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  Re: Watchmen: Rebirth, Reboot, Reycle

  serial production of comics vs. the single author

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  Felix Brinker Graduate School of North American Studies, Free University of Berlin

  Tuesday, February 28, 2017 — 10:44 am

  mention merchandising, at least since the 70s as well. Along the same lines, the constant drive to reboot ...
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  Re: Digital Streaming Services in Turkey

  new viewing and production practices

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  Jülide Etem Indiana University, Bloomington

  Friday, April 6, 2018 — 10:11 pm

  Turkish audiences at least in two ways. First, the episodes of originals in the digital platforms are ...
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  John Cameron Mitchell's Relationscapes

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  Karin Sellberg and Michael O'Rourke The University of Queensland; Independent Colleges Dublin

  January 31, 2011

  7 comments

  when bodies are poised in a togetherness beginning to take shape”. To Justin Bond’s assurance that “we ...
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  British Bhangra Album Sleeves as Artwork

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  Rajinder Dudrah University of Manchester (UK)

  April 16, 2008

  3 comments

  British Bhangra Album Sleeves as Artwork South Asian diaspora Desi DNA Desi Britain bhangra BBC art Curator's Note This is a clip from BBC 2's Desi DNA programme originally telecast on 5 March 2008 in the UK. The show itself is a magazine format ...
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  Memes as Subversion?

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  Robert McEachern Southern Connecticut State University

  September 05, 2016

  2 comments

  Memes as Subversion? subversion PSAT memes Kermit Cosby Curator's Note In How the World Changed Social Media (2016), Miller et al. describe the results of ethnographies conducted in eight countries, exploring how social media is influenced by, and in ...
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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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  Stranger in a strange land: Quality television's episodic failures

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  Cory Barker Bradley University

  April 21, 2011

  6 comments

  Stranger in a strange land: Quality television's episodic failures TV Failure The Sopranos quality TV Lost Coupling Battlestar Galactica ABC Curator's Note The phrase "television failure" recalls high-profile series that couldn’t live ...
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  Studying to See

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  Daren Fowler PhD

  March 23, 2026

  answer will begin, or even arrive, in the image. The artist’s technique will be visible and loud enough ... opticality begins in finding where he is in the images he helps create. Peters actively rejects claiming ... discusses in his post later this week, Peters’ practice begins not in the external filmic reference, but in ...

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