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  Re: "All Your Subversion Are Belong to Culture Industry" (That Means You Too, Banksy!)

  We do this all the time, probably not with self-awareness

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  Kevin King UCSC

  Friday, June 3, 2011 — 4:29 pm

  suit.   In watching the laborers, I found it interesting how these Asian “yellow” people were colored ...
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  Re: Is Bollywood Still Producing Musicals? (Has It Ever?)

  RE: Bollywood, the West, and cultural exchange (Cont.)

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  Nilanjana Bhattacharjya Arizona State University

  Sunday, June 17, 2012 — 8:18 pm

  ways in which Danny Boyle (and perhaps some other South Asian diasporic filmmakers, outside Bollywood) ...
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  Re: The Essence of a Women's Prison: Where Orange Is the New Black Falls Short

  Airbrushing Prison(ers)

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  Maria San Filippo Emerson College

  Friday, March 14, 2014 — 6:55 pm

  masculinity that restricts it to non-Butch, non-Asian bodies. Femininity is highly restrictive as well, with ...
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  “I is Unruffable”: Rereading African American Sports Performances as Unique Expressions of Dissent

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  Pellom McDaniels III Emory University

  October 25, 2011

  6 comments

  the possibilities of a world unhinged from tradition. Indeed, this was a world where the rewards ...
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  'Mohr' No More? Advertising the Other in German-Speaking Europe

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  Susanne Hamscha Free University Berlin

  October 28, 2009

  1 comment

  Austrian customers, namely “Mohr im Hemd” ice cream. “Mohr im Hemd,” a warm chocolate cake served with ... colonialism and slavery. But “Mohr im Hemd,” be it as ice cream or in its usual cake form, is not the only ...
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  Re: Can the Sidekick Protest? The Dissonant Sidekick and the Limits of Representing Difference in Contemporary Media

  I Basically Agree but...

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  Jeff Casey University of Wisconsin-Madison

  Tuesday, December 16, 2014 — 11:14 pm

  resignation asking, “But who am I to argue...?” Here I’m projecting my own discomfort onto the film and Tonto ... specifically, imagining the character as expressing my desire for escape, but I don’t think I’m alone in this ... granted that at the outset, I’m interested in the way the film’s own logic collapses on itself in ...
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  Zombies and suspense

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  Rossend Sanchez-Baro Universitat Pompeu Fabra

  March 08, 2012

  1 comment

  without any prior clue, Lori says, “I’m pregnant”. In the television series, on the other hand, it is made ...
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  “With all due respect, I’m far from a slut”, the hidden social justice advocate in Maury Povich

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  Anonymous In Media Res Special Category

  April 10, 2015

  “With all due respect, I’m far from a slut”, the hidden social justice advocate in Maury Povich ... producer then comes to the stage (clearly a very educated person) and said “with all due respect, I’m far ...
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  Say What, Sorkin?

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  Todd Sodano St. John Fisher College

  June 27, 2011

  6 comments

  uttering, “I’m sorry?” “Hmmm?” “Excuse me?” “What?” – so the audience can hear again an important piece of ... “Explain it to me like I’m a four-year-old …” or “Are you trying to tell me that …”); four, he draws ...
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  Sex and Screwball Comedy in The Good Wife

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  Kelli Marshall DePaul University

  October 14, 2011

  4 comments

  a conversation, she snaps, “I’m always astounded when a man like you expresses such unadulterated drivel.” He ... retorts quickly, “Funny. I’m never astounded when you do.” As in classical screwball comedies, this witty ...

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