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  Re: Show me the Money: Desi TV in the US Marketplace

  Robert, I agree that one of

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  Madhavi Mallapragada University of Texas at Austin

  Tuesday, April 15, 2008 — 5:05 am

  way in which MTV desi predominantly relied on MTV India and not enough on the South Asian American ... In many ways, by alligning themselves with multicultural and Asian American television platforms, Pan ... Desi and Simply Desi have an opportunity to articulate themselves to a larger context of Asian American ...
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  Re: Producing "The Simpsons": Banksy’s Realism on the Factory Floor

  Techno-Orientalism

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  Lisa Nakamura University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign

  Sunday, January 23, 2011 — 4:20 pm

  of Asian production, in my opinion deferring pointed critique by going over the top with the ... an image of Asian digital labor that is quite like Banksy's hyperbolic images of exploited ... concerned with the real than other types of scholars; she found that most Asian WoW players and perhaps even ...
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  Re: (Asian American?) Hip Hop: Cool Calm Pete’s “Black Friday”

  Jane, This is an intriguing

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  L.S. Kim University of California, Santa Cruz

  Wednesday, April 30, 2008 — 7:10 pm

  being directly pegged as "an Asian rapper." The particular race and the particular genre/venue ... Asian or Black (etc.). which aligns itself with a neoconservative "color blindness" which ... that?" It challenges the expectations that an Asian American artist's work would be ...
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  Re: From ‘Heroes’ to ‘Zeroes’: Producing Fan Vids without Fans

  Blurring Boundaries

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  Elizabeth Evans University of Nottingham

  Friday, February 20, 2009 — 2:55 pm

  I’m sure fans will inevitably become (and possibly already are) savvy about what is going on. Do they ... established boundaries. I realise I’m not the first to say this but it’s something that has become apparent in ...
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  Re: Anxious Coed Spontaneous Fried-Chicken Dance Party

  Cinematic madness

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  Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece Northwestern University

  Monday, March 16, 2009 — 2:57 pm

  Jeff, this post and clip are so great! What I’m curious about is how this clip (and perhaps Lewis’ ... nauseating real toward which badfilm draws us is on some level a gut-wrenching lurch toward insanity.  I’m ... also are associated with the fringes not just of culture but of sanity—hence the possibility of ...
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  Otherworldly Comedic Legacies, or; Legends Waiting in the Wings

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  Meredith Bak Rutgers University-Camden

  March 25, 2025

  Repeated shots of the star-studded studio audience throughout the evening have hinted at possibilities ... articulating a multi-generational comedic legacy.[2]Instead, Streep strode onstage announcing “I’m here, I’m ... here, I’m here,” blaming her tardiness on bathroom troubles. Neither McKinnon’s contemporary, nor ...
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  Re: Yellow Voice and the Chinese International Student: Ricky Wong in "We Can Be Heroes"

  Contrasting Asian voices

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  Shilpa Davé University of Virginia

  Friday, March 25, 2011 — 1:53 am

  "Asian-ness" and it seems to separate out "Asian-ness" from foreign-ness.   Your idea about ...
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  Retro Objects, Alien Objects

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  Runchao Liu University of Minnesota Twin Cities

  December 12, 2018

  Retro Objects, Alien Objects retro media popular music Alienation Asian American Diasporas ... of Asian American diasporas in postcolonial America. What makes a retro object retro? For whom is it ... Asian and Asian American bodies as “alien, evil, and bent on invading or undermining Western ...
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  Re: “Speaking American: Cultural Expressions of Race and Nationality in Harold and Kumar”

  Hi Shipa- This is a great

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  Shalini Shankar Northwestern University

  Monday, April 28, 2008 — 6:13 pm

  Hi Shipa- This is a great clip to get us thinking about Asian American media representations. ... masculinity are defined, and how East Asians and South Asians remain on the periphery of these norms in ...
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  Re: Yellow Fever: Born Digital on Battlestar Galactica

  This is a really interesting

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  Brander Rasmussen Birgit University of Wisconsin, Madison

  Monday, July 9, 2007 — 4:29 pm

  "Asian-ness" functions as well? Making her both assimilable (good model-minority) and always different? ... Obviously here, the "asian-ness" is entirely phenotypical, there is no asian culture element as ...

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