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  In Search of Identity: Fanfics, Cosplay and Character Building in 'Adventure Time'

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  Philippe Bédard Concordia University

  January 05, 2015

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  characters live out scenarios that are not possible otherwise. In addition, online fandoms present ... their existence and their importance. Is it possible, then, that Adventure Time is more than just about ...
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  Pee-Wee Herman Marries a Fruit...Salad

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  Charles Daniel Redmond Tufts University

  December 31, 2014

  2 comments

  that this promise of endless possibility is what kept children my age (and, unsurprisingly, a number of ... light-hearted moment on a children’s television program uncannily queer and open to possibilities far beyond the ...
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  Re: A Certain Bromance

  Bromance

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  Jeff Casey University of Wisconsin-Madison

  Friday, December 19, 2014 — 11:41 pm

  connected to homosexual bonding as a means of acknowledging the possibilities of homosocial bonding." ...
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  Re: Joan Watson Deserves Better: Audience Reception and the Gender Politics of TV Sidekickdom

  #joaniarty!

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  Jeff Casey University of Wisconsin-Madison

  Friday, December 19, 2014 — 9:42 pm

  will-the-or-won't-they trope but pretty clearly shut the door on that possibility in the second season. Sherlock ...
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  A Certain Bromance

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  Sammi Dittloff University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

  December 19, 2014

  1 comment

  A Certain Bromance Simon Pegg Nick Frost Jonah Hill Edgar Wright Channing Tatum Bromance Curator's Note What is the key to a perfect bromance? And what, exactly, is a bromance? Buddy comedies have been around for a long time, but it hasn’t been until ...
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  Joan Watson Deserves Better: Audience Reception and the Gender Politics of TV Sidekickdom

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  Natasha Patterson Simon Fraser Unversity

  December 18, 2014

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  Joan Watson Deserves Better: Audience Reception and the Gender Politics of TV Sidekickdom TV sidekicks Joan Watson gender politics Elementary Audience reception Curator's Note After Elementary ’s strong and critically well-received first season, Dr. ...
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  Re: Heroes, Sidekicks, and Powerful Love

  Structures...

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  Jeff Casey University of Wisconsin-Madison

  Thursday, December 18, 2014 — 2:19 am

  (Jedi and wizard) in part due to a sort of birthright and prophesied destiny. (I’m actually not that up ...
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  Re: Can the Sidekick Protest? The Dissonant Sidekick and the Limits of Representing Difference in Contemporary Media

  to make a short story long

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  Jeff Casey University of Wisconsin-Madison

  Wednesday, December 17, 2014 — 6:01 am

  from the sidekick. I’m interested in how a "post-closet” culture (to use Steven Seidman’s term) ...
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  Heroes, Sidekicks, and Powerful Love

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  Lisa Perks Nazareth College

  December 17, 2014

  3 comments

  Heroes, Sidekicks, and Powerful Love Star Wars sidekicks love Lord of the Rings Heroes harry potter Curator's Note The word sidekick connotes unequal power relations: sidekicks are a hero’s support staff, his or her assistants. A closer analysis of t ...
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  Re: Can the Sidekick Protest? The Dissonant Sidekick and the Limits of Representing Difference in Contemporary Media

  I Basically Agree but...

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  Jeff Casey University of Wisconsin-Madison

  Tuesday, December 16, 2014 — 11:14 pm

  resignation asking, “But who am I to argue...?” Here I’m projecting my own discomfort onto the film and Tonto ... specifically, imagining the character as expressing my desire for escape, but I don’t think I’m alone in this ... granted that at the outset, I’m interested in the way the film’s own logic collapses on itself in ...

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