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  Fairy Tales And The Sophisticated Viewer

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  Lindsey Kempton Sarah Lawrence College

  March 12, 2012

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  least, fairy tales’ self-contained stories and one dimensional protagonists would have to be altered to ...
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  Anime Fairy Tales: Fighting Fate and Convention

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  Amanda Landa RTF UT-Austin

  March 14, 2012

  3 comments

  begins, “mukashi, mukashi,” or “long ago,” and each episode is themed with orchestral pieces from famous ... Beauty, Giselle, The Nutcracker, and others. In the beginning, Duck/Tutu’s primary opponents are the dark ...
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  Re: Anime Fairy Tales: Fighting Fate and Convention

  i think it’s safe to say that

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  Amanda Landa RTF UT-Austin

  Wednesday, March 14, 2012 — 6:08 pm

  the U.S. at least, are ninjas--which have a real basis in Japanese history, but have become more ...
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  The Root of Evil--ABC's "Once Upon A Time" Makes Evil Characters More Human

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  Mattie Tanner University of Texas at Dallas

  March 15, 2012

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  The Root of Evil--ABC's "Once Upon A Time" Makes Evil Characters More Human The Fairy Tale as Format sympathy Once Upon a Time evil ABC Curator's Note In ABC’s “Once Upon A Time,” they have put a twist on our familiar fairy tale storie ...
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  Re: The Root of Evil--ABC's "Once Upon A Time" Makes Evil Characters More Human

  I agree that the dichotomy of

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  Mattie Tanner University of Texas at Dallas

  Saturday, March 17, 2012 — 4:14 am

  and bad characters (at least as they appear on the surface), the characters are no longer flat but ...
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  The Good Wife and Religion for Liberals

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  Jorie Lagerwey University College Dublin

  March 19, 2012

  4 comments

  The Good Wife and Religion for Liberals The Good Wife religious representations on television liberalism Curator's Note There are any number of reasons one might cite for the prominence of religious rhetoric in American public discourse in the last d ...
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  How Christianity is marked "liberal" or "conservative"

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  Kyle Conway University of North Dakota

  Monday, March 19, 2012 — 7:54 pm

  twice marked as "liberal," at least to me-- 1) it's urban, and 2) it's mainline ...
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  Queer Jewish Difference

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  Rachel Silverman Embry Riddle Aeronautical University

  March 20, 2012

  7 comments

  beginning in the mid nineteenth century and continuing through the Second World War, attempts made to find ...
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  Louie's "God" As Cathartic Television

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  Kelli Marshall DePaul University

  March 22, 2012

  4 comments

  especially in a country wary of atheism. But at least for twenty-two minutes of TV time, he (and ...
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  Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon: The Gender Politics of the Mother Daughter Bond

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  Virginia Kuhn University of Southern California

  March 26, 2012

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  Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon: The Gender Politics of the Mother Daughter Bond The Hunger Games motherhood heroines gender politics Curator's Note The release of  The Hunger Games  finds Jennifer Lawrence in her second coming-of-age role, playing ...

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