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  Sex and Screwball Comedy in The Good Wife

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  Kelli Marshall DePaul University

  October 14, 2011

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  a conversation, she snaps, “I’m always astounded when a man like you expresses such unadulterated drivel.” He ... retorts quickly, “Funny. I’m never astounded when you do.” As in classical screwball comedies, this witty ...
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  We So Seldom Look on Love in Porn

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  Karly-Lynne Scott Northwestern University

  March 31, 2015

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  possibility of visibilizing and proving love. Watching Wylde and Noir make love, whispering things to one ...
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  Thinking the non-binary, incommensurability, and sex in Thiagarajan Kumararaja’s Super Deluxe (2019)

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  Sneha Kumar Concordia University - Film & Moving Image Studies

  September 05, 2023

  between possibility and closure— [4] are how she comes to embody the subject of the non-binary in the ...
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  Flashback Against AIDS: Retro-Activism in HBO's The Normal Heart

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  R. Gabriel Dor Northwestern University

  March 10, 2016

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  Flashback Against AIDS: Retro-Activism in HBO's The Normal Heart Watching the 80s The Normal Heart sex queer Man's Country HIV HBO gay flashback Curator's Note Ryan Murphy’s 2014 adaptation of Larry Kramer’s 1980s stage play The Normal Hear ...
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  Hung Out to Dry: HBO’s Cancellation Habit

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  Maya Montanez Smukler UCLA & The New School

  May 14, 2012

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  Hung Out to Dry: HBO’s Cancellation Habit sex Save this Show, HBO Cancelled Shows, Curator's Note Premiering in June 2009, HBO’s half-hour comedy Hung embodied in its leading character a recession mania sweeping the country, as American Everyman Ray ...