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  Battlestar Galactica: Subversive Sci-Fi?

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  Roberta Pearson University of Nottingham (UK)

  July 13, 2007

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  Battlestar Galactica: Subversive Sci-Fi? terrorism Sci-fi Battlestar Galactica cable original programming ratings Curator's Note Time Magazine has hailed BSG as the best program on television. Critics praise its under-dog protagonists' perspecti ...
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  The Human Rights of Cylons “as a Race”

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  Michael Peterson University of Wisconsin, Madison

  July 12, 2007

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  The Human Rights of Cylons “as a Race” race Sci-fi Battlestar Galactica human rights torture Curator's Note BSG often simplistically asks whether the Cylons have rights (every time a human says “she's just a machine!” the flattered audience know ...
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  Re: Multiracial Battlestar Galactica

  Related to your point, Lisa,

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  Michael Peterson University of Wisconsin, Madison

  Wednesday, July 11, 2007 — 11:04 pm

  a different note, is it possible to argue that this multiracial dilemma Brander sums up here is somewhat ...
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  Multiracial Battlestar Galactica

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  Brander Rasmussen Birgit University of Wisconsin, Madison

  July 11, 2007

  5 comments

  Multiracial Battlestar Galactica race Sci-fi Battlestar Galactica miscegenation otherness diversity Curator's Note In this moment of crisis, the camera pans over the faces of many key characters revealing a crew that includes men and women of many ra ...
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  Re: Yellow Fever: Born Digital on Battlestar Galactica

  I'm so excited to see a post

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  Tuesday, July 10, 2007 — 8:35 pm

  I'm so excited to see a post about this-- BSG raises particularly compelling questions about race and representation. I've written: I’d argue that BSG’s whole approach to race is hybrid: it complexifies racial categories by refusing bad scifi’s ...
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  Re: Yellow Fever: Born Digital on Battlestar Galactica

  Avi, I think you may be on

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  Ellen Rigsby Saint Mary’s College of California

  Tuesday, July 10, 2007 — 12:45 pm

  might want to read scene as more meta-commentary on the range of possible subject positions for Asian ...
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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

  Yellow Fever: Born Digital on Battlestar Galactica stereotyping Sci-fi representation race digital Battlestar Galactica Asian Curator's Note Sharon Valerii, played by Korean-Canadian actress Grace Park, is a young, pretty, highly educated Asian woman ...
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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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