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  From Lovebot to War Bride: Race, Family and Citizenship in Battlestar Galactica

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  LeiLani Nishime Sonoma State University

  May 02, 2008

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  Asian-American representation Sci-fi Battlestar Galactica Curator's Note In the series, Battlestar ... increasingly vocal civil rights movement. This new image transformed Asians in the public imagination from male ... seen as racialized anger (“You hate me for what I am. You hate me for where I’m from.”) What, too, are ...
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  “Speaking American: Cultural Expressions of Race and Nationality in Harold and Kumar”

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  Shilpa Dave Brandeis University

  April 28, 2008

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  gender South Asian Asian-American film trailer transcoding Curator's Note “Speaking American: ... also was popular with a wider audience including Asian Americans. The sequel where Harold and Kumar go ... American cultural expression in racialized Asian American bodies. Even if you do not identify with Harold ...
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  Nathan for You and Cable's Contested Masculinities

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  Nick Marx Colorado State University

  August 21, 2014

  masculinities made possible by contemporary cable’s hyper-competitive targeting of young male audiences. This ... personality as a business-makeover host rubs would-be clients the wrong way. He gathers female, black, Asian ...
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  “But Does He Know How to Wind You Up?” Gwen Stefani Samples The Sound of Music

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  Jane Park University of Oklahoma

  February 19, 2007

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  performance race gender music video intertextuality sampling Orientalism Asian Curator's Note A student ...
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  What I learned by taking 30 years of Keanu Reeves movies seriously

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  Charisse L'Pree Syracuse University

  August 12, 2019

  recent rom-com celebration of Asian American identity, Always Be My Maybe (2019), for which writer Ali ... Wong noted, “[Keanu] was flattered that we remembered he was Asian American” (2019). https ...
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  Crafting Croft: Avatars, Identity, Representation

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  Linzi Juliano University of California, Los Angeles

  March 14, 2013

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  muscular, mustachioed, reptilian, or an Asian woman (as in the Saints Row series), these options are ...
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  Amy Schumer: Enemy of the Status Quo

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  Kathleen Collins John Jay College of Criminal Justice (City University of New York)

  February 12, 2015

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  identifying “the Asian over there” as the employee who had helped her, and the cashier appreciates the direct ...
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  “You Got No Idea What’s Goin’ On On That Island!”: What SNL Can Teach Us About Lost

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  Ivan Askwith Big Spaceship

  February 13, 2008

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  gender focus, but I’m willing to bet it’s not an accidental one.) ...
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  Can Catwoman Challenge Patriarchy?

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  Michael Lecker George Mason University

  September 28, 2007

  Batman driven narrative? What ideologies is Selina questioning with such quotes as “Tell me I’m not in ...
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  Wild Thing: HDTV and the Demasculinized Male Viewer

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  Marusya Bociurkiw Ryerson University, Toronto

  October 09, 2009

  1 comment

  demasculinization I’m noticing in HDTV ads? Many of the ads I’ve been looking at seem to crystallize what Jeanne ...

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