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  Can Catwoman Challenge Patriarchy?

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  Michael Lecker George Mason University

  September 28, 2007

  change the effectiveness of the message? What narrative elements cause us to side with Selina, in the ... Batman driven narrative? What ideologies is Selina questioning with such quotes as “Tell me I’m not in ...
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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 ... hold of its patriarchal reigns by embracing its masochistic side and “taking it like a man”. Might HBO ...
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  It Rhymes with Smashsmortion

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  Craig O. Stewart Old Dominion University

  June 08, 2007

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  ill-considered one-night stand. The film barely considers any possibilities for Allison other than having the ... other respects (but perhaps somewhat overrated). So, I’m interested to hear from others--did anyone else ...
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  The Mouth Wants What It Wants

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  Dana Heller Old Dominion University

  June 22, 2007

  1 comment

  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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  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 ... Harris, like so many viewers, essentially been seduced into believing that Tony is on the winning side ...
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  Previously on Buffy

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  Alan McKee Queensland University of Technology

  February 23, 2007

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  a solipsistic ‘anything goes’ attitude. I’m not telling people that this is the correct interpretation of this ... text; I’m asking if anybody thinks the same way, or finds this a useful approach. ...
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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 ... does not Carmela find herself on the wrong side of the intellectual divide? Or as Carmela puts it: “You ...
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  Television and Reality: The Politics of Representation in Celebrity Big Brother, U.K.

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  Shanti Kumar University of Texas at Austin

  April 17, 2007

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  (with three other housemates on Goody's side). Over the course of the show as the arguments and ...
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  “I’m Here Because I’m Bored”: Getting at the Nature of Ludic Computation

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  Judd Ruggill University of Arizona

  October 30, 2007

  1 comment

  “I’m Here Because I’m Bored”: Getting at the Nature of Ludic Computation computers gaming history ...
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  Dharma Orientation Film

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  Roberta Pearson University of Nottingham (UK)

  October 28, 2007

  1 comment

  cool enough that I’m editing a book on it at this very moment and hoping for some viral marketing). But ... I’m also a little worried about the totalising spread of big media that this clip represents, bringing ...

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