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  Hiding in Plain Sight: Blackamoors in Classical Hollywood Cinema

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  Susan Felleman University of South Carolina

  April 23, 2024

  memoir, “I’m told it’s not in good taste to wear Blackamoors anymore, but I think I’ll revive them. Why ... designers and set decorators—it is possible to detect some patterns in this set of films. In period films, ...
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  Abject Martyrdom_ Queer Becomings in João Pedro Rodrigues

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  Daren Fowler Georgia State University

  December 03, 2024

  Jarman, an erotic queer political imaginary. In each, Sebastian’s martyrdom opens possibilities of ... changed. I’m still me.” It’s true, certainly. We have not necessarily changed; we have just shared a new ...
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  How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the "Killer Condom"

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  Kaelin B.C. Alexander Cornell University

  March 19, 2009

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  Bad Film Curator's Note Killer Condom (1996) is quite possibly the most pro-queer film of the ...
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  Slow Power

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  Samantha Dols American University

  March 26, 2017

  1 comment

  Slow Power slow tv Norway emerging media Curator's Note In 2013, Al Jazeera reported on an emerging media tradition in Norway: "A new kind of reality TV show was born, and it goes against the rules of TV engagement. There is no story line, no sc ...
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  Hedwig leaves her stain on the Shortbus.

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  Kristopher L. Cannon Georgia State University

  February 01, 2011

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  (self-)debasements stage the possibility for new, undoubtedly dirty, be-comings.   ...
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  MC NORMCORE

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  Eva Hageman University of Maryland College Park

  May 22, 2014

  8 comments

  of white supremacy and is only possible because of her distinct brand of normativity. In an interview ...
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  Re: Baseball *Is* All It’s Quacked Up To Be

  ... and I'm back. The more

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  Doug Battema Western New England University

  Thursday, February 28, 2008 — 4:48 am

  spot-on. It's possible that this dynamic may be even more accentuated at the various minor-league or ...
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  "Would you like a treatment?": Dollhouse, pain, and memory

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  Erika Johnson-Lewis St. Petersburg College

  October 14, 2009

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  "Would you like a treatment?": Dollhouse, pain, and memory mediation Dollhouse pain programming blank slates Curator's Note The central premise of Dollhouse is that the human brain can be “wiped” of its original consciousness and a new cons ...
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  Re: The Yellow Peril rises from the grave... to get your White women! Orientalist themes in zombie stories

  I do agree that Romero's

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  Eric Hamako Shoreline Community College

  Friday, October 2, 2009 — 4:20 pm

  powerful elites (generally scapegoats like Jews or East Asians, standing in for overwhelmingly White and ...
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  The Dichotomy of Inside and Outside: Exploring Architectural Space in Genshin Impact

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  Christina M. Spiker St. Olaf College

  January 09, 2023

  Sumeru, which blends facets of Middle Eastern, Southeast Asian, and Egyptian cultures. These references to ...

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