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  High School for Superheroes and Sidekicks

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  Eleanor Huntington University of Southern California

  December 15, 2014

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  and Jetstream, Will Stronghold begins his first day of high school in a state of panic. Unbeknownst to ...
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  Can the Sidekick Protest? The Dissonant Sidekick and the Limits of Representing Difference in Contemporary Media

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  Jeff Casey University of Wisconsin-Madison

  December 16, 2014

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  Can the Sidekick Protest? The Dissonant Sidekick and the Limits of Representing Difference in Contemporary Media gender genre homosocial frienship homosociality Race and Representation sidekicks whiteness Curator's Note Gore Verbinski’s The Lone Rang ...
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  Re: Can the Sidekick Protest? The Dissonant Sidekick and the Limits of Representing Difference in Contemporary Media

  Side Kick Booster Shot

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  Michael Peterson University of Wisconsin, Madison

  Tuesday, December 16, 2014 — 2:37 pm

  we're at least weirdly reflexive about it." So I definitely come down on the ...
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  Re: Can the Sidekick Protest? The Dissonant Sidekick and the Limits of Representing Difference in Contemporary Media

  I Basically Agree but...

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  Jeff Casey University of Wisconsin-Madison

  Tuesday, December 16, 2014 — 11:14 pm

  Yes, if you had to line up the examples listed in the above post, from least successful to most ... progressive in the film has been part of the “revisionist” western genre for at least fifty years.) Still, ... auto-critique, in which even the characters don’t want to be part of the film. As I stipulate in the beginning of ...
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  Heroes, Sidekicks, and Powerful Love

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  Lisa Perks Nazareth College

  December 17, 2014

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  Heroes, Sidekicks, and Powerful Love Star Wars sidekicks love Lord of the Rings Heroes harry potter Curator's Note The word sidekick connotes unequal power relations: sidekicks are a hero’s support staff, his or her assistants. A closer analysis of t ...
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  Re: Can the Sidekick Protest? The Dissonant Sidekick and the Limits of Representing Difference in Contemporary Media

  Resistant sidekicks

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  Natasha Patterson Simon Fraser Unversity

  Wednesday, December 17, 2014 — 10:24 pm

  is it still necessary? With Elementary, the writers made it clear from the beginning that Joan is ...
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  Re: Heroes, Sidekicks, and Powerful Love

  Challenging hegemonic masculinity?

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  Natasha Patterson Simon Fraser Unversity

  Thursday, December 18, 2014 — 12:06 am

  Holmes. At the beginning of season 2, Holmes proclaimed that he was "post-love" at least ...
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  Zesty Fascism: Adventure Time's Lemongrab and the Lurking presence of Despotism in a Children's Show

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  Alexandre Dugas Concordia University

  January 06, 2015

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  Zesty Fascism: Adventure Time's Lemongrab and the Lurking presence of Despotism in a Children's Show Despotism children adventure time Curator's Note The Earl of Lemongrab is the product of as misconducted experiment which grows to become o ...
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  Re: Zesty Fascism: Adventure Time's Lemongrab and the Lurking presence of Despotism in a Children's Show

  Good Points

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  Dewey Musante Georgia State University

  Tuesday, January 6, 2015 — 7:01 pm

  of Lemonhope that the Lemon kingdom begins to change. Overall, Alexandre digs out an interesting, if ...
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  The Ancient Psychic Tandem War Elephant: Adventure Time and Existentialism

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  Dewey Musante Georgia State University

  January 09, 2015

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  The Ancient Psychic Tandem War Elephant: Adventure Time and Existentialism War Elephant existentialism adventure time Curator's Note From Camus to Sartre to Dostoevsky, big name existential philosophers and artists alike have mulled over the "ad ...

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