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  Two Words: Chuck Norris

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  Ian Reilly University of Guelph

  January 16, 2008

  5 comments

  strategy. Riding the wave of popularity made possible by chucknorrisfacts.com, an ever-growing archive of ...
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  Re: Ironic Authenticity: Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping

  I haven’t seen the film

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  Viveca Greene Hampshire College

  Tuesday, January 15, 2008 — 7:29 pm

  thoughts. I’m interested in irony as it's used as a rhetorical strategy: how ironists flatter and court ... him). Later this week I’m going to address a political campaign ad that arguably attempts something ...
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  Re: Ironic Authenticity: Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping

  Not knowing much about

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  Catherine Burwell University of Toronto

  Tuesday, January 15, 2008 — 5:47 pm

  change and the possibility – as you suggest at the end of your post – that politically-significant ...
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  Re: South Park’s Ironic Whiteness

  Thanks to Ted for starting

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  Catherine Burwell University of Toronto

  Tuesday, January 15, 2008 — 8:08 am

  polysemy of the text or the possibility of multiple interpretive positions, but just to come back to ...
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  Ironic Authenticity: Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping

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  Amber Day Bryant University

  January 15, 2008

  7 comments

  Ironic Authenticity: Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping culture jamming performance art parody consumerism religion irony authenticity Reverend Billy Church of Stop Shopping What Would Jesus Buy Curator's Note Reverend Billy is the bouffa ...
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  Re: South Park’s Ironic Whiteness

  I tend to agree with Viveca

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  Amber Day Bryant University

  Tuesday, January 15, 2008 — 3:29 am

  other words, it seems like the possibility of highly diverse readings of the show's humor is built ...
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  South Park’s Ironic Whiteness

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  Ted Gournelos Old Dominion University

  January 14, 2008

  8 comments

  South Park’s Ironic Whiteness whiteness race South Park Comedy Central destabilize Michael Richards Richard Dyer George Lipsitz irony A Time to Kill Training Day Curator's Note As scholars like Richard Dyer and George Lipsitz have pointed out, one of ...
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  Re: Strike You!

  Excellent video and

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  Derek Kompare Southern Methodist University

  Thursday, December 20, 2007 — 6:54 am

  Obviously, both sides have and will make as much hay from this as possible (e.g., the huge difference between ...
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  Re: Strike You!

  What's so interesting to me

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  Avi Santo Old Dominion University

  Wednesday, December 19, 2007 — 7:44 pm

  What's so interesting to me about this video-- aside from the narrative ambiguity over ...
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  Strike You!

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  Ellen Seiter University of Southern California

  December 19, 2007

  5 comments

  Strike You! satire Youtube labor pro-am WGA strike Curator's Note YouTube has been an amazing resource for me—as a teacher of television. I especially like the way that it enables me to show historic television clips and TV from other countries. I al ...

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