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  Pee-Wee’s Daddy

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  Kevin L. Ferguson Queens College / CUNY

  December 30, 2014

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  Pee-Wee’s Daddy Pee-Wee Herman whip cream shaving metaphor fatherhood Curator's Note While rich fathers play a role in Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure (dir. Tim Burton, 1985), Pee-Wee’s own parents are rarely mentioned in either that film or the television s ...
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  Fatherhood in The Mandalorian: Portraying a Clan of Two

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  Eva Coleman Owusu The Pennsylvania State University

  October 19, 2020

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  Fatherhood in The Mandalorian: Portraying a Clan of Two Star Wars The Mandalorian Disney+ fatherhood Curator's Note Since the Star Wars franchise acquisition in 2012, The Walt Disney Company has produced films that both extend the chronology of the S ...
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  Ryan Coogler Gets in the Ring with Cultural Moynihanism in Fruitvale Station and Creed

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  Hannah Hamad University of East Anglia

  April 19, 2016

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  Ryan Coogler Gets in the Ring with Cultural Moynihanism in Fruitvale Station and Creed Ryan Coogler race masculinity Fruitvale Station fatherhood Creed Curator's Note Writer-director Ryan Coogler's inaugural feature Fruitvale Station, a dramatiz ...