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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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  moving body apart, fixing joints as relational algorithmic equations and creating a database of possible ...
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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

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  been somewhere in the middle all along, his manner on the bitchy side, his look goofy but often rather ...
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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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  “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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  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 ... possibility of unimagined modes of being and desiring elsewhere. Who, where, in what world, is the Maggie ...
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  Orphan Black and the Performance Text of Attractions

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  R. Colin Tait Texas Christian University

  April 07, 2014

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  Orphan Black and the Performance Text of Attractions Television Acting Tatiana Maslany performance Orphan Black Curator's Note   Quality Television depends on quality acting. Period. Though new titles in TV Studies scholarship- such as Elana Levine a ...
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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 ...
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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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  Dance, Girl, Dance!: Performance & Class Mobility in Disney’s Shake It Up

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  Morgan Blue The University of Texas at Austin

  September 11, 2012

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  Dance, Girl, Dance!: Performance & Class Mobility in Disney’s Shake It Up TV Pilots Shake It Up performance girls Disney dance class Curator's Note In the first few minutes of the pilot for Disney Channel sitcom Shake It Up, lead characters, Rock ...
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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 ...