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  Hiding in Plain Sight: Blackamoors in Classical Hollywood Cinema

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  Susan Felleman University of South Carolina

  April 23, 2024

  memoir, “I’m told it’s not in good taste to wear Blackamoors anymore, but I think I’ll revive them. Why ... designers and set decorators—it is possible to detect some patterns in this set of films. In period films, ...
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  Abject Martyrdom_ Queer Becomings in João Pedro Rodrigues

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  Daren Fowler Georgia State University

  December 03, 2024

  Jarman, an erotic queer political imaginary. In each, Sebastian’s martyrdom opens possibilities of ... changed. I’m still me.” It’s true, certainly. We have not necessarily changed; we have just shared a new ...
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  How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the "Killer Condom"

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  Kaelin B.C. Alexander Cornell University

  March 19, 2009

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  Bad Film Curator's Note Killer Condom (1996) is quite possibly the most pro-queer film of the ...
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  Can the Sidekick Protest? The Dissonant Sidekick and the Limits of Representing Difference in Contemporary Media

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  Jeff Casey University of Wisconsin-Madison

  December 16, 2014

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  Can the Sidekick Protest? The Dissonant Sidekick and the Limits of Representing Difference in Contemporary Media gender genre homosocial frienship homosociality Race and Representation sidekicks whiteness Curator's Note Gore Verbinski’s The Lone Rang ...
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  Slow Power

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  Samantha Dols American University

  March 26, 2017

  1 comment

  Slow Power slow tv Norway emerging media Curator's Note In 2013, Al Jazeera reported on an emerging media tradition in Norway: "A new kind of reality TV show was born, and it goes against the rules of TV engagement. There is no story line, no sc ...
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  Dressing for (Dis)Occupation: On Subject Positioning and the 'Occupy' Movement

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  Elspeth Van Veeren University of Sussex

  December 07, 2011

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  Dressing for (Dis)Occupation: On Subject Positioning and the 'Occupy' Movement Occupy dress discourse assessing the occupy movement Curator's Note  What you wear is political. Whether consciously or unconsciously, through choice or not, dre ...
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  Imagining the Self-Controller: ‘The Wild Divine Project’ as an Experiment in Religious Game Interface

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  Vincent Gonzalez UNC - Chapel Hill

  April 15, 2010

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  Imagining the Self-Controller: ‘The Wild Divine Project’ as an Experiment in Religious Game Interface wellness video games spirituality new age branding Curator's Note /*-->*/ The Wild Divine Project has posed a classificatory problem since 2003, ...
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  Hedwig leaves her stain on the Shortbus.

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  Kristopher L. Cannon Georgia State University

  February 01, 2011

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  (self-)debasements stage the possibility for new, undoubtedly dirty, be-comings.   ...
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  Re: Mainstreaming the Avant-Garde: Gender and spectacle at GAGAKOH

  Gaga and Object Oriented Ontology

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  Karin Sellberg and Michael O'Rourke The University of Queensland; Independent Colleges Dublin

  Wednesday, August 4, 2010 — 3:08 am

  wing of Speculative Realism), Zizek (who is more on the dialetical materialist side of things), Deleuze ... Gaga's videos are full of possibilities for a SR reading. In his response to a post I wrote on Gaga and ...
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  Re: Baseball *Is* All It’s Quacked Up To Be

  ... and I'm back. The more

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  Doug Battema Western New England University

  Thursday, February 28, 2008 — 4:48 am

  spot-on. It's possible that this dynamic may be even more accentuated at the various minor-league or ...

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