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  Lady Gaga and the High Heels of New Feminism

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  Madison Moore Yale University

  August 04, 2010

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  that's on her head. This move is especially poignant when thought alongside the current debates about ...
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  Tatiana plays Alison playing Sarah: Costumes and Clone Swaps

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  Staci Stutsman Syracuse University

  April 17, 2015

  8 comments

  of course I’m your mom,” Alison says in a strained English accent. Maslany’s acting style allows Kira ...
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  It' so butch and femme: Reexamining Gender Representation on "The L Word"

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  Gina Mitchell Bates College

  September 21, 2009

  5 comments

  Note  The controversy surrounding gender representation on “The L Word” is often situated alongside ...
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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

  4 comments

  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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  Infinite Auditions: Dance as Data Set and Habit

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  Anna Beatrice Scott University of California -- Riverside

  December 07, 2007

  3 comments

  moving body apart, fixing joints as relational algorithmic equations and creating a database of possible ...
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  The Maggie Cheung We Don’t See

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  Xueli Wang Yale University

  March 27, 2023

  the unknown. In the moments when Cheung suddenly fills the screen, we are startled by the possibility ... possibility of unimagined modes of being and desiring elsewhere. Who, where, in what world, is the Maggie ...
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  Kathryn Alexandre and the Performance of the Body

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  Zoë Shacklock University of St Andrews

  April 14, 2015

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  Kathryn Alexandre and the Performance of the Body performance Orphan Black body Curator's Note In BBC America’s behind the scenes video, Kathryn Alexandre describes herself as ‘Tatiana’s clone double’. The redundancy of this somewhat awkward tautolog ...
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  Black Women as Godfathers and Gangstas: Set It Off's Divergence from the New Black Aesthetic

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  Philana Payton University of California, Los Angeles

  November 09, 2020

  reference that pays homage directly to The Godfather. As the quartet discusses the possibility of robbing ...
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  Live, Love, Labor: Bill Duke's The Killing Floor and the Performance of Politicized Sociality

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  NicholasForster Yale University

  November 11, 2020

  history of pain and possibility. It is through Gunn that we understand Williams’ past reckoning with the ...
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  Orphan Black and the Performance Text of Attractions

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  R. Colin Tait Texas Christian University

  April 07, 2014

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  Orphan Black and the Performance Text of Attractions Television Acting Tatiana Maslany performance Orphan Black Curator's Note   Quality Television depends on quality acting. Period. Though new titles in TV Studies scholarship- such as Elana Levine a ...