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  Re: Imperialist Nostalgia and Blackface in the WWE

  To be fair, I’m not sure Cena

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  Dr. Kristine Weglarz CPA Canada

  Wednesday, October 7, 2015 — 10:28 pm

  To be fair, I'm not sure Cena is targeted at women. Kids, yes. Moms and Dads, yes. Roman Reigns is much more of a play to women, as sad as that sounds. I'd argue too that CM Punk worked that anti-hero card well, despite the revelations that have ...
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  Re: Imperialist Nostalgia and Blackface in the WWE

  I'm Not Saying Everyone...But An Overt Majority

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  Garret Castleberry Mid-America Christian University

  Thursday, October 8, 2015 — 1:20 pm

  I don't know that Cena is targeted at women so much on an intentional level. But based on every in-person mixed gender scenario in which I've been in the same room with females of multiple ages during a point where Cena appears on television, th ...
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  Noir Gender Dynamics in Fargo

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  Jonathan Cicoski University of Southern California

  October 13, 2015

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  Noir Gender Dynamics in Fargo gender Film Noir Fargo Double Indemnity Coen Brothers Curator's Note To borrow from a different Coen Brothers film, Jerry Lundegaard’s in a tight spot. The opening scene of their film Fargo (1996) establishes Jerry as a ...
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  Re: Noir Gender Dynamics in Fargo

  No Country for Old Men

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  Emily Hiltz Carleton University, School of Journalism and Communication

  Wednesday, October 14, 2015 — 9:24 pm

  very much motivated by a desire to mete out possible competition, and to spare others who he feels are ...
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  A familiar scene of pistols: No Country for Old Men’s adaptation of Target Pistol and Man

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  Emily Hiltz Carleton University, School of Journalism and Communication

  October 16, 2015

  plotline of past and future violence by suspending visual evidence of Carla Jean’s possible off-screen ... and Man (1980). Labelled a pop culture pairing, both images supply an unsettling taste of possible ... of Anton's prior violence. As such, a clear vision of Carla Jean’s possible fate is constructed ...
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  Super Friends, Trans-Thematic Media Branding, and the 1970s/80s Team-Based Superhero

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  Ian Peters University of North Georgia

  October 20, 2015

  1 comment

  simultaneously restricting the possibility of continuous transmedia narratives (214). While Super Friends did ...
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  The Internet of Things in the Next Internet

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  Vincent Mosco Queen's University

  October 28, 2015

  report on what’s inside and how it is used. The IOT is made possible by advances in the ability to ...
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  Bring me the Head of Quentin Tarantino: The Politics of Exploitation and the Exploitation of Politics

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  Devin Orgeron NCSU

  November 03, 2015

  8 comments

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  Re: Bring me the Head of Quentin Tarantino: The Politics of Exploitation and the Exploitation of Politics

  Another question I think your

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  Gordon Sullivan University of Pittsburgh

  Tuesday, November 3, 2015 — 11:12 pm

  period you mention, it was possible to "exploit" something in a couple of months- a news story ...
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  Non-Compliance: Bitch Planet and Feminist Exploitation

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  Alicia Kozma University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

  November 05, 2015

  6 comments

  Non-Compliance: Bitch Planet and Feminist Exploitation women in prison films feminism exploitation comic books Curator's Note Insubordination. Seduction and Disappointment. Emotional Manipulation. Patrilineal Dishonor. Disrespect. Unpermitted Birth. ...

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