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  Calling the Working South Asian: American Accents and Outsourced

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  Shilpa Davé University of Virginia

  March 25, 2011

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  Calling the Working South Asian: American Accents and Outsourced television South Asians South ... Asian racial performance Outsourced India comedy Asian Americans Accent Curator's Note In the 2010 ... South Asian/American actors and South Asian American writers. According to writer Geethika Lizardi, the ...
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  Behind the Laughter Curtain: Image(in)ing Later Life Marriage through Comedy

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  Melissa Aleman James Madison University, School of Communication Studies

  March 25, 2009

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  such representations to render possible images as obscene, such as older adult sexuality, infidelity, ... and talk about those stories that we imagine the unseen and unspoken possibility for later life ... a narrative space for viewers to imagine, not only a host of possible punch lines, but also the relationship ...
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  The Essence of a Women's Prison: Where Orange Is the New Black Falls Short

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  Daisy Ball Framingham State University

  March 14, 2014

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  industrial complex,” and I’m afraid it misses that chance. Because OITNB is based on Piper Kerman’s memoir, ...
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  Getting rid of the idea that older adults are television addicts

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  Margot van der Goot Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands

  March 26, 2009

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  Only some people watch for want of something better: as compensation for things that are not possible ... (anymore).   I’m wondering whether older people in different cultures and different countries experience ...
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  Colbert and the Talk Show Games

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  Ethan Thompson Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi

  August 31, 2015

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  segments and I’m not sure were that far removed from “Heatherball.” But it does seems to me that Colbert is ... top-dollar stars the first week or two of the new Colbert show, I’m looking forward to a few more weeks down ...
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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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  Prelude to a Remix: Damon Lindelof’s Instagram Letter to Watchmen’s Wary Audience

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  Sarah Riddick Worcester Polytechnic Institute

  September 16, 2020

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  again prioritizes audience: “I’m a true fan, too. And I’m not the only one” (4). The two sentences stand ...
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  “Quiero Mis Quinces”: I want my MTV, in English and Spanish. Bilingual and Bicultural Popular Television.

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  Carolyn Brown American University

  September 08, 2009

  English. As it turns out, I am not that unusual. I’m a typical 2nd generation bicultural, bilingual Latino ...
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  “You Feel It.” True Crime’s Advantage in Dramatization

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  Leslie Rowen Bellarmine University

  February 16, 2017

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  office after a long day in court. “I’m not a public personality,” she exclaims, revealing an emotionality ...
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  Louie's "God" As Cathartic Television

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  Kelli Marshall DePaul University

  March 22, 2012

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  Louie's "God" As Cathartic Television television religion parenting louie god Curator's Note A scene that precedes this one from Louie 's episode "God" has been described as disturbing, graphic, creepy, and horrifying. I ...

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