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  Infinite Auditions: Dance as Data Set and Habit

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  Anna Beatrice Scott University of California -- Riverside

  December 07, 2007

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  or announced outside of the circle of participants unless the performer-player chooses to break the ... moving body apart, fixing joints as relational algorithmic equations and creating a database of possible ...
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  The Maggie Cheung We Don’t See

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  Xueli Wang Yale University

  March 27, 2023

  the unknown. In the moments when Cheung suddenly fills the screen, we are startled by the possibility ... the outside of any imaginable diegesis. This is epitomized in the central nighttime hotel sequence ... possibility of unimagined modes of being and desiring elsewhere. Who, where, in what world, is the Maggie ...
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  Tatiana plays Alison playing Sarah: Costumes and Clone Swaps

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  Staci Stutsman Syracuse University

  April 17, 2015

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  of course I’m your mom,” Alison says in a strained English accent. Maslany’s acting style allows Kira ...
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  Black Women as Godfathers and Gangstas: Set It Off's Divergence from the New Black Aesthetic

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  Philana Payton University of California, Los Angeles

  November 09, 2020

  reference that pays homage directly to The Godfather. As the quartet discusses the possibility of robbing ... stating, “Cleo cannot see herself in a life outside of the one she lives in the postindustrial city that ...
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  Bringing the War Home: IVAW’s Operation First Casualty

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  Stephen Duncombe New York University

  September 11, 2009

  1 comment

  son outside President Bush’s Texas ranch was one such performance, another is “Operation First ...
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  “Where Does a Girl Have to Go to Find a Pool Table: Gender Performance, Leisure, and The L Word in Second Life”

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  Kelly Kessler DePaul University

  April 22, 2008

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  a butch to do? I’m not wholly sure what to make of this. This fantasy meeting place seems to be solely ...
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  "Don't Shoot!" Hetero Masquerade on Project Runway

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  Heather Hendershot City University of New York, Queens College

  December 12, 2006

  1 comment

  "Don't Shoot!" Hetero Masquerade on Project Runway performance queerness masculinity reality TV Project Runway rural Curator's Note In Season One of Project Runway, we learn surprisingly little about characters' backgrounds. It is ...
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  Performing Proximity to Fame in RU Talkin’ R.E.M. RE: Me?

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  Justin Owen Rawlins The University of Tulsa

  July 29, 2019

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  Performing Proximity to Fame in RU Talkin’ R.E.M. RE: Me? podcast celebrity fandom music performance Curator's Note “This is RU Talkin’ R.E.M. RE: Me?,” begins Scott Aukerman at the outset of every episode of his co-hosted podcast, “the comprehensive ...
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  Lady Gaga and the High Heels of New Feminism

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  Madison Moore Yale University

  August 04, 2010

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  Lady Gaga and the High Heels of New Feminism Queer Performance pop music performance Lady Gaga Grammy's Drag Armani Curator's Note Lady Gaga showed up at the 2010 Grammy Awards in a dress that was as fabulous as it was hazardous. Designed by Arm ...
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  Live, Love, Labor: Bill Duke's The Killing Floor and the Performance of Politicized Sociality

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  NicholasForster Yale University

  November 11, 2020

  history of pain and possibility. It is through Gunn that we understand Williams’ past reckoning with the ...

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