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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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  Righteous Anger and the Fear of a Black Planet in Taxi Driver

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  Greg Oguss University of Southern California

  March 20, 2008

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  a commentary on the “Black is Beautiful” era, which dates back to James Brown’s 1968 hit “Say It Loud (I’m ... Black and I’m Proud),” a song that became the soundtrack to the following decade, featuring ...
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  Nathan for You and Cable's Contested Masculinities

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  Nick Marx Colorado State University

  August 21, 2014

  masculinities made possible by contemporary cable’s hyper-competitive targeting of young male audiences. This ... Hispanic, and “old” panelists, demographics nominally outside of Comedy Central’s targeted audience, but ...
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  Transgression, Confession, and Ying Yang Twins’s “Wait (The Whisper Song)”

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  Michael Z. Newman University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee

  February 20, 2008

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  cultural values and norms. I think this last benefit in particular is what I’m getting from telling you how ...
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  “Define Good”: The Anxious Pleasures of Subscribing to HBO

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  Avi Santo Old Dominion University

  April 13, 2007

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  and high-mindedness but must simultaneously seek out as many new subscribers as possible and continue ...
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  “Bricks”- a Supernatural vid by Luminosity

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  Louisa Stein Middlebury College

  January 31, 2008

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  the forces of “darkness” from outside and within across a horror/noir landscape. While Sam and Dean’s ...
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  One Man Army: Ultimate Warfighters and Interchangeable Tough Guys

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  Charity Fox University of Baltimore

  September 28, 2011

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  universe (I’m looking at you, Real Housewives) – there is a tone of respectful collegiality infusing the ...
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  The Queer Geek Adonis

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  Matthew french Old Dominion University

  September 26, 2013

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  distinctions between the queer geek body as normative over other possibilities.  This is a shift in discourse, ... defends his inferred asexuality in one clip. As a possible asexual queer representation, Sheldon proves ...
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  Be-Be-Beaver Boys!

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  Jeffrey Sconce Northwestern University

  January 22, 2008

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  excitable “beaver boys” frolicking on the shrimp-strewn sand. Perhaps this is where “outsider” comedy is ...
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  The Bonds of Brotherhood

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  Louisa Stein Middlebury College

  February 13, 2007

  excerpt demonstrates Supernatural’ s head-on address of the queer possibilities borne of Sam and ...

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