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  Re: Advertising and the Older Generation: Humerous or Degrading?

  Advertising and the portrayal of older people

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  Margot van der Goot Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands

  Monday, March 23, 2009 — 5:10 pm

  same time, it is possible to say that the portrayal of the woman in the commercial is all positive: She ...
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  Re: Advertising and the Older Generation: Humerous or Degrading?

  Perhaps it serves both functions

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  Melissa Aleman James Madison University, School of Communication Studies

  Monday, March 23, 2009 — 2:33 pm

  wonder if it is possible that a new image of an aging technologically competent woman is acceptable as ...
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  Advertising and the Older Generation: Humerous or Degrading?

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  Caja Thimm University of Bonn, Germany

  March 23, 2009

  6 comments

  Advertising and the Older Generation: Humerous or Degrading? technology Stereotypes old age Curator's Note Guided by a perspective that advertisements are not just about selling products, brand names, and services, I am studying the content and socia ...
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  What Bad Does

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  James Daniel Elam Northwestern University

  March 20, 2009

  3 comments

  success on iTunes and will supposedly hit retail outlets soon.   It may be possible to brush the video ... aside and say here, “any publicity is good publicity,” but it seems to me there’s something quite ...
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  Re: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the "Killer Condom"

  Now I want "Killer Condom 2: Ribbed for Her Terror"

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  Kaelin B.C. Alexander Cornell University

  Friday, March 20, 2009 — 3:12 am

  part, sure. But I’d also offer that Killer Condom welcomes the possibility that its spectacular genre ...
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  Re: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the "Killer Condom"

  I could never come up with a better title than Killer Condom

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  Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece Northwestern University

  Thursday, March 19, 2009 — 8:04 pm

  shifting and discursive motion? Finally, I’m wondering at what points or in what genres bad film functions ...
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  Re: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the "Killer Condom"

  Who's bad?

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  James Daniel Elam Northwestern University

  Thursday, March 19, 2009 — 2:19 pm

  the way. Especially given the very comic, very cliché NYPD Italian cop name, I feel like I’m watching ... a Nicholas Cage movie (Bangkok Dangerous puns aside!). At the same time, however, one look at those ...
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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

  7 comments

  Bad Film Curator's Note Killer Condom (1996) is quite possibly the most pro-queer film of the ...
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  Re: Some movies are bad, but some are undead: Watchmen

  fantastic responses!

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  Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece Northwestern University

  Wednesday, March 18, 2009 — 7:09 pm

  Thanks, everyone, for some truly insightful and provocative comments. I’m delighted to read all of ... Watchmen)?  I really think there’s something to the visual-to-visual medium here, but I’m not sure what; I’d ... going to try to fake it in the fakest way possible.  To at least gesture toward an answer to your final ...
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  Re: Some movies are bad, but some are undead: Watchmen

  Look at Me, I've Seen "White Heat"

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  Jeffrey Sconce Northwestern University

  Wednesday, March 18, 2009 — 5:23 pm

  sunlight possible. I'm also impressed here by the Baudrillardian attention to pointless stylistic ... sure, but still a bit different).  Does Watchmen-grade awfulness suggest a third possibility?  ...

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