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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

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  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

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  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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  The Winning Side?: Agent Harris and the FBI on HBO’s The Sopranos

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  Douglas Howard Suffolk County Community College

  June 27, 2007

  2 comments

  The Winning Side?: Agent Harris and the FBI on HBO’s The Sopranos narrative ambiguity The Sopranos. HBO Paul Levinson closure Curator's Note While the “closure junkies,” as Paul Levinson recently called them on his Infinite Regress blog, continue to ...
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  You have options …

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  Janet McCabe and Kim Akass Manchester Metropolitan University

  June 26, 2007

  2 comments

  everything is possible with a gold credit card paid for by daddy, but surely the paradox speaks to a broader ...
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  The Mouth Wants What It Wants

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  Dana Heller Old Dominion University

  June 22, 2007

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  American diet-- suggests that it might be possible to reclaim a liberated, hyper-masculine subjectivity ... his underwear, and tosses them into a burning trash canister). Taken collectively, I’m interested in ...
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  Re: “The Power to Entertain Yourself: Mobile Video Strikes Out (Again)”

  I'm fascinated by how a lot

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  Jonathan Gray University of Wisconsin - Madison

  Tuesday, June 19, 2007 — 1:59 am

  I'm fascinated by how a lot of ads like this try to sell such conspicuous and over the top signs of privilege and control: being able to tell women to shake their "junks" and so forth. Here, the fantasy of control and power is so redundant, ...

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