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  Re: Yellow Fever: Born Digital on Battlestar Galactica

  Lisa's reading of the Sharon

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  Roberta Pearson University of Nottingham (UK)

  Monday, July 9, 2007 — 3:13 pm

  of Asian women is useful and compelling. I must say that until now this was not a foregrounded ... both Asian and female may be enabling even newer riffs? Do the contemporary identity markers of the ...
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  Re: Yellow Fever: Born Digital on Battlestar Galactica

  When I first viewed this

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  Ellen Rigsby Saint Mary’s College of California

  Monday, July 9, 2007 — 2:52 pm

  and it does use the stereotyped current media image of Asian women to bolster this identification. ... Another aspect of the Asian stereotype is that of the "model minority"--Asians are supposed to ...
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  Yellow Fever: Born Digital on Battlestar Galactica

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  Lisa Nakamura University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign

  July 09, 2007

  10 comments

  Battlestar Galactica Asian Curator's Note Sharon Valerii, played by Korean-Canadian actress Grace Park, ... is a young, pretty, highly educated Asian woman who has a white boyfriend, a steady job with a large ... organization, and is on a professional fast track. This is all-too-familiar figure in Asian American popular ...
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  Re: Feminist Sopranos

  And yet after Tony's

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  Janet McCabe and Kim Akass Manchester Metropolitan University

  Saturday, June 30, 2007 — 11:46 am

  Another expression of cold-bloodedness that maybe finds its roots in a possible 'feminisation' ...
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  Re: The Winning Side?: Agent Harris and the FBI on HBO’s The Sopranos

  Here is an irony. While

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  Janet McCabe and Kim Akass Manchester Metropolitan University

  Friday, June 29, 2007 — 10:34 am

  onto these episodes as long as possible? ...
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  Feminist Sopranos

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  Maurice Yacowar University of Calgary

  June 29, 2007

  3 comments

  Feminist Sopranos HBO gender masculinity The Sopranos Curator's Note The drama opens on this sculpture in Dr Melfi's office. Tony is introduced as discomfited by Woman, indeed caught in its scissor. The old skirt-chaser fears the feminine. He� ...
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  The Winning Side?: Agent Harris and the FBI on HBO’s The Sopranos

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  Douglas Howard Suffolk County Community College

  June 27, 2007

  2 comments

  The Winning Side?: Agent Harris and the FBI on HBO’s The Sopranos narrative ambiguity The Sopranos. HBO Paul Levinson closure Curator's Note While the “closure junkies,” as Paul Levinson recently called them on his Infinite Regress blog, continue to ...
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  You have options …

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  Janet McCabe and Kim Akass Manchester Metropolitan University

  June 26, 2007

  2 comments

  everything is possible with a gold credit card paid for by daddy, but surely the paradox speaks to a broader ...
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  The Mouth Wants What It Wants

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  Dana Heller Old Dominion University

  June 22, 2007

  1 comment

  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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  Re: “The Power to Entertain Yourself: Mobile Video Strikes Out (Again)”

  I'm fascinated by how a lot

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  Jonathan Gray University of Wisconsin - Madison

  Tuesday, June 19, 2007 — 1:59 am

  I'm fascinated by how a lot of ads like this try to sell such conspicuous and over the top signs of privilege and control: being able to tell women to shake their "junks" and so forth. Here, the fantasy of control and power is so redundant, ...

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