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  The Mouth Wants What It Wants

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  Dana Heller Old Dominion University

  June 22, 2007

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  American diet-- suggests that it might be possible to reclaim a liberated, hyper-masculine subjectivity ... in a revolt against the castrating implications of suburban mini vans, Asian salads (the new quiche), ... his underwear, and tosses them into a burning trash canister). Taken collectively, I’m interested in ...
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  The Many (Unauthorized) Faces of Superman

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  Avi Santo Old Dominion University

  March 20, 2007

  fandom fan videos exnomination Asian-American Americana affect Curator's Note OK, so fans are able ...
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  Whiteness and Transcultural Sketch Comedy

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  Walter Metz Montana State University

  March 07, 2007

  Captain "Kork" (Christian Tramitz) orders Mr. Sulu (portrayed as an over-the-top Asian ...
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  The Many Texts of Textless Paratexts

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  Johannes Mahlknecht University of Innsbruck, Austria

  March 17, 2014

  5 comments

  trailer only funny if we know the source it's adapting. The line, "I’m here because I’m ...
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  Voting for Super Bullshit on Super Tuesday

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  Jonathan Gray University of Wisconsin - Madison

  February 05, 2008

  button is still on. Here, though, and especially on a day such as today, I’m interested in how this clip ...
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  The Lonely Island’s Laughable Activism: The Visual Argument of “Spring Break Anthem”

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  Aaron Dickinson Sachs Saint Mary's College of California

  September 19, 2013

  2 comments

  marriage is, literally, laughable when held against more ridiculous but condoned behaviors, I’m left ...
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  Displacing Meaning: Parodic Ads “Without texts”

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  Taylor Nygaard University of Denver

  March 18, 2014

  6 comments

  sort. Yet, I’m interested in exploring the role that a parodic paratext, which doesn’t lay claim to ...
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  "Mad Men" and/as Teleparody

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  David Lavery Middle Tennessee State University

  April 24, 2009

  9 comments

  presence of our experience of art is now harder to feel.   Would this sea-change have been possible if the ...
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  Enterprising Parody?

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  Tanya D. Zuk, Ph.D. Georgia State University

  October 17, 2017

  franchise, Discovery. Which leads us to the question, is it possible, even preferable, for a series to grow ...
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  Ironic Authenticity: Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping

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  Amber Day Bryant University

  January 15, 2008

  7 comments

  Ironic Authenticity: Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping culture jamming performance art parody consumerism religion irony authenticity Reverend Billy Church of Stop Shopping What Would Jesus Buy Curator's Note Reverend Billy is the bouffa ...

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