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  Bollywood Brokeback Bromance: India's First Onscreen Gay Kiss?

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  Samir Dayal Bentley University

  June 21, 2010

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  least, it showed two women kissing and doing more than that in bed, within the confines of ...
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  Re: Bollywood’s Index: Allusions and Inside Jokes in Om Shanti Om

  Choreography

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  Miriam Eastern Connecticut State University

  Tuesday, June 29, 2010 — 7:50 pm

  history, but its global intersection. At least the way I "read" the choreography (and ...
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  100 Years Later: Race and "The Fight of the Century"

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  Roopika Risam Emory University

  July 05, 2010

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  100 Years Later: Race and "The Fight of the Century" sports race Jack Johnson boxing Curator's Note One hundred years ago, on July 4, 1910, boxers Jack Johnson and Jim Jeffries undertook "The Fight of the Century." While other mat ...
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  The Impossible Dream: Fake Sports Online

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  Gregory Zinman New York University

  July 06, 2010

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  The Impossible Dream: Fake Sports Online fake sports capitalism Bazin Curator's Note For an assignment in the Sports on Film class I taught this summer, one of my students posted a clip on the class blog of a seemingly impossible feat: a man rocketin ...
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  Re: The Impossible Dream: Fake Sports Online

  Ditto

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  Travis Vogan Indiana University

  Thursday, July 8, 2010 — 2:34 pm

  will—at least when I watch it—is the eruption of screams, hi-fives, and chest bumps that occur after they ...
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  30 for 30 and ESPN’s Quest for Cultural Consecration

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  Travis Vogan Indiana University

  July 09, 2010

  2 comments

  omnipresence in contemporary popular culture, there is one thing that ESPN is not, or at least was not until ... but they do not enrich, or at least are not commonly understood to perform this function. ESPN has ... the sound of a projector. The trailer, or at least these components of the trailer, positions ESPN as ...
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  Re: Bollywood Brokeback Bromance: India's First Onscreen Gay Kiss?

  An answer re: an "answer"

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  Samir Dayal Bentley University

  Sunday, July 11, 2010 — 1:44 am

  as derivative.  I was just suggesting that "an answer" necessarily suggests at least ...
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  Cynicism Takes a Beach Trip: The Audience-Network Contract of Summer TV

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  Jeremy Mongeau N/A

  July 14, 2010

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  Cynicism Takes a Beach Trip: The Audience-Network Contract of Summer TV The O.C. guilty pleasures FOX Curator's Note /*-->*/ Conventional wisdom holds that winter audiences are held captive by the weather. So in this regard, the very idea of summe ...
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  Re: Cynicism Takes a Beach Trip: The Audience-Network Contract of Summer TV

  "The freedom from

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  Noel Kirkpatrick Unaffiliated

  Wednesday, July 14, 2010 — 10:03 pm

  attempts to do scripted shows during the summer (at least ABC and Fox are trying). A fair amount of this is ...
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  The Rigidity of Seasonal Synergy

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  Myles McNutt University of Wisconsin - Madison

  July 15, 2010

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  The Rigidity of Seasonal Synergy television Summer scheduling ratings Curator's Note Whether due to a particularly breezy pace or a distinctly sunny setting, many summer series become permanently connected with the season in which they premiere. This ...

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