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  “Where Does a Girl Have to Go to Find a Pool Table: Gender Performance, Leisure, and The L Word in Second Life”

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  Kelly Kessler DePaul University

  April 22, 2008

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  a butch to do? I’m not wholly sure what to make of this. This fantasy meeting place seems to be solely ...
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  Citizens’ Media in Southern Colombia

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  Clemencia Rodriguez University of Oklahoma

  December 13, 2007

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  agricultural farmers as delinquents, this narrative rules out the possibility of linking illegal drug economies ... complicates the issue of coca cultivation; it denies the possibility of good guys and bad guys and simple ...
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  Andy Samberg’s D-ck in a Book?: The Highs and Lows of Marketing Literature on the Internet

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  Hollis Griffin Denison University

  August 07, 2007

  handwringing. The user comments appearing alongside The Manny ’s video on youtube offer an entertaining glimpse ...
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  Performance and Play: Mental Disability and the Class Character of Tarnation

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  Rachel Thibault University of Massachusetts, Amherst

  December 01, 2010

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  one that makes Tarnation possible in the first place. The film portrays mental illness not as obstacle ...
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  Class Struggle at the Wonder Wharf: Bob's Burgers' Working Class World

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  Charlotte Howell University of Texas at Austin

  June 08, 2015

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  Mr. Fishoeder's main business endeavor (and possibly his main source of income based on how often ...
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  ‘Is He Safe?’: Trauma, Violence, and Fatherhood in Succession

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  Jeremy Sarachan St. John Fisher University

  April 18, 2022

  perimeter—Logan addresses a potentially suicidal son in the most indirect way possible. Yet, in a moment during ...
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  Can TV See Class? Or How I learned to Stop Worrying and Believe in the American Dream

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  Robert Cannon California State University, Los Angeles

  September 23, 2011

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  Can TV See Class? Or How I learned to Stop Worrying and Believe in the American Dream working class television class determinism class American dream Curator's Note It's been three years since The Wire  left television and academia still can ...
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  Television and Reality: The Politics of Representation in Celebrity Big Brother, U.K.

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  Shanti Kumar University of Texas at Austin

  April 17, 2007

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  Television and Reality: The Politics of Representation in Celebrity Big Brother, U.K. South Asian Shilpa Shetty reality TV racism Jane Goody intersectionality international TV formats diaspora class channel 4 Britain Bollywood Big Brother Curator's N ...