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Re: Super Fly and the American Dream: Performing Asian Martial Arts in Blaxploitation Cinema

Martial Arts As Subaltern Signifier

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Tuesday, December 18, 2012 — 3:07 am

invocation of Asian martial arts (perhaps the most obvious signifier of Asian culture in America, at least in ... the 1970s) is to identify with a subaltern culture. At the very least, I think it is safe to say that ...

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Re: Snuff love: British nostalgia and the mythology of real death in VoD horror

If truth be told, it’s the

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Johnny Walker Northumbria University

Wednesday, April 2, 2014 — 7:20 pm

often the case that, in the 1990s at least, when collectors were paying top dollar (or sterling, even!), ... subsequently trumped (in the case of Cannibal Holocaust at least) by HD and widescreen restorations. It is the ...

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Re: We So Seldom Look on Love in Porn

Demonstration as Compensation

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Karly-Lynne Scott Northwestern University

Wednesday, April 1, 2015 — 1:40 am

least of the attempt to prove to visibilize familial love in the way that MakeLoveNotPorn attempts to ... impetus to prove familial love because it is, at least ostensibly, unconditional, whereas romantic love is ...

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Ron Swanson: Working (Or Not) From the Inside

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David J. Loehr 2amt and Riverrun Theatre Company

June 06, 2012

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taxpayers’ money. He’s spoken of staying in government to help dismantle it from within or at least slow it ... presenting Ron’s beliefs as worthy of respect at least, consideration at best. There is a logic to Ron’s ... the festivals.) Their version of life here is uncanny, to say the least. If only we had Ron & ...

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Re: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the "Killer Condom"

I could never come up with a better title than Killer Condom

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Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece Northwestern University

Thursday, March 19, 2009 — 8:04 pm

sort of associative operation in body horror code female bodies as akin to or at least aligned with ... learned how to dress in drag, or at least drink a martini at Lucky Cheng’s; RuPaul’s Drag Race may be ... or at least stripped of some of its subversive power. When camp’s teeth are removed, does it just ...

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Re: Calling on the Colbert Nation: How fan practices complicate irony