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  Re: Genre Matters

   I think this is a really

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  Robert Moses Peaslee Texas Tech University

  Friday, October 16, 2009 — 3:42 pm

   I think this is a really interesting area of research, one that I'm beginning to wade into ...
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  Tween Comedies and the Evolution of a Genre

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  Michael Z. Newman University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee

  October 19, 2009

  5 comments

  realize that the familiar sit-com style of the past lives on, at least in the narrowcast niche of tween ...
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  Ernie and Bert: Just Good Friends?

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  Heather Hendershot City University of New York, Queens College

  October 19, 2009

  7 comments

  comes from mainstream TV, not resourceful fans—but at least it is dirty without being mean spirited. ...
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  Re: Tween Comedies and the Evolution of a Genre

  the big reversal

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  Heather Hendershot City University of New York, Queens College

  Monday, October 19, 2009 — 4:29 pm

  ago, children's TV was insistently ironic, pastiche-laden, and even cynical--at least shows ...
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  Ironic Muppets and Horny Houseplants: Sesame Street’s Dual Address

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  Amanda Ann Klein East Carolina University

  October 21, 2009

  4 comments

  housewives. I have singled out the latter, however, because it seems to be least accessible to its young ...
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  Jack Black, Yo Gabba Gabba, and Kid-Cult Appeal

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  Jason Mittell Middlebury College

  October 21, 2009

  3 comments

  toddlers without real storylines or jokes. At least for me, I find this appeal harder to take for extended ...
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  Re: Ironic Muppets and Horny Houseplants: Sesame Street’s Dual Address

  Brand marketing

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  Jason Mittell Middlebury College

  Thursday, October 22, 2009 — 1:03 am

  (arguably at least). And even if you don't have young kids, you might be more likely to buy your nephew ...
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  Nights @ Indian Call Centers

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  James Daniel Elam Northwestern University

  October 26, 2009

  1 comment

  realizes he is sitting across from a mysterious, beautiful woman. Interested, he begins a conversation; she ... comes with a condition: if she tells him the story, he must write it. They agree, and the story begins ...
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  Re: "Would you like a treatment?": Dollhouse, pain, and memory

  Forgetting the Dollhouse

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  Nina Huntemann Suffolk University

  Tuesday, October 27, 2009 — 6:07 am

  address). At least in “Belongings” I just saw a clichéd treatment of these issues typical of "dark ...
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  Re: Jack Black, Yo Gabba Gabba, and Kid-Cult Appeal

  star parents

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  Erin Meyers Oakland University

  Tuesday, October 27, 2009 — 1:00 pm

  I agree with the idea that the show uses irony-free   (or at least lower irony, I have trouble ...

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