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  If This is OurChart Then Where is MyChart?: Selective Lesbian Identities on The L Word’s Social Networking Site

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  Kelly Kessler DePaul University

  September 23, 2009

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  If This is OurChart Then Where is MyChart?: Selective Lesbian Identities on The L Word’s Social Networking Site The L Word Showtime social networking lesbian media convergence Curator's Note On the heels of the breakthrough television series Queer as ...
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  Re: If This is OurChart Then Where is MyChart?: Selective Lesbian Identities on The L Word’s Social Networking Site

  where women can connect

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  Julie Levin Russo Stanford University

  Thursday, September 24, 2009 — 3:34 am

  OurChart AS a social network, or at least in its capacity to enhance The L Word's brand without such ...
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  "The L Word" Plays Itself

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  Candace Moore Faculty Member, Screen Arts & Cultures, University of Michigan

  September 25, 2009

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  "The L Word" Plays Itself reflexivity repetition L Word season finale Curator's Note  Later seasons of Showtime’s The L Word both responded to and theatricalized fan and critical reactions to previous seasons.   Textually acknowledging sugg ...
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  (and Vancouver plays LA)

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  Julie Levin Russo Stanford University

  Saturday, September 26, 2009 — 4:58 am

  its own codes of construction makes it the series' strongest. At least in its self-congratulatory ...
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  Re: The Yellow Peril rises from the grave... to get your White women! Orientalist themes in zombie stories

  yellow peril

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  Kim Paffenroth Iona College

  Monday, September 28, 2009 — 1:58 pm

  COMMANDO. But as for our zombies: part of the analysis of Romero's zombies at least is how multi-ethnic ... "other" (at least in so far as the "other" is racially typecast). Do you think Resident Evil just ...
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  The Yellow Peril rises from the grave... to get your White women! Orientalist themes in zombie stories

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  Eric Hamako Shoreline Community College

  September 28, 2009

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  The Yellow Peril rises from the grave... to get your White women! Orientalist themes in zombie stories race rape Orientalism Asian racism violence zombie horde Taken Resident Evil, Yellow Peril Arab Muslim sexual assault gang rape Curator's Note   In ...
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  Metamorphoses of the sexualized zombie

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  Ernesto Ignacio de Carvalho New York University

  Tuesday, September 29, 2009 — 7:45 am

  You can't begin to imagine the life you denied yourself…   Ernesto Ignacio de Carvalho ...
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  Racism, Postcolonialism, and Neocolonial Zombies: Resident Evil 5

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  Cathy Schlund-Vials University of Connecticut

  September 30, 2009

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  provides a provocative answer at the beginning of Resident Evil 5 ’s narrative: “capitalism.”               ...
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  Dawn of the Dead (1978): Zombies and Human Nature

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  Kim Paffenroth Iona College

  September 30, 2009

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  Dawn of the Dead (1978): Zombies and Human Nature Romero zombies undead Dawn of the Dead zombie films zombie movies Curator's Note Here we have the essence of George Romero’s zombies.It comes down to two aspects: 1) zombies are merely people;2) zombi ...
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  Obama, Zombies, and Black Male Messiahs

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  Elizabeth McAlister Wesleyan University

  October 01, 2009

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  Obama, Zombies, and Black Male Messiahs zombie black killers mcalister Curator's Note   Insofar as they occupy the symbolic place of messiah in these zombie apocalypses, it interesting that from Ben in Night, to Peter in Dawn, and John in Day, to Rob ...

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