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  Re: Voice of a Generation?: The Potential of Authenticity in HBO’s Girls

  FU? or not FU?

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  Nedda Ahmed Georgia State University

  Wednesday, January 16, 2013 — 3:32 pm

  "over" the interracial dating question? Is Dunham side-stepping the question? Or is she telling the ...
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  The Appropriate Response: Complexities of Girls’ Reception in Gawker Recaps

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  Jennifer Lynn Jones Indiana University

  January 16, 2013

  5 comments

  The Appropriate Response: Complexities of Girls’ Reception in Gawker Recaps Recaps postmodern John Cook girls Gawker Curator's Note John Cook’s Gawker recaps of Girls rely on postmodern elements of parody and pastiche to critique the show and its com ...
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  Re: Girls, Ancillary Media, and Audiences

  Girls & Profits

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  Emanuelle Wessels Augsburg College

  Tuesday, January 15, 2013 — 5:08 pm

  endeavors, cash (and yet more possibilities for tie-ins) from awards ("critical acclaim") are ...
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  Re: Girls, Ancillary Media, and Audiences

  Product Tie-Ins?

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  Nedda Ahmed Georgia State University

  Tuesday, January 15, 2013 — 2:25 pm

  question related to the point you just made about social media buzz possibly compensating for low ratings. ...
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  Voice of a Generation?: The Potential of Authenticity in HBO’s Girls

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  Raechel Tiffe University of Minnesota

  January 15, 2013

  11 comments

  Voice of a Generation?: The Potential of Authenticity in HBO’s Girls The View hipster racism girls authenticity Curator's Note In the pilot episode of HBO’s Girls, the protagonist Hannah (played by the show’s creator, Lena Dunham) proclaims that she’ ...
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  Re: Owning Her Abjection: Lena Dunham's Queer Feminist Sexual Politics

  Quality

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  Emanuelle Wessels Augsburg College

  Tuesday, January 15, 2013 — 1:32 am

  surrounding the show? Quite possibly. Is the whole endeavor earnest social commentary or cynical capitalism, ...
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  Girls, Ancillary Media, and Audiences

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  Emanuelle Wessels Augsburg College

  January 14, 2013

  7 comments

  Girls, Ancillary Media, and Audiences irony girls controversy branding audiences Curator's Note From Lena Dunham’s body to the show’s alleged lack of diversity, Girls has garnered much attention for its representational politics. Moreover, Dunham, an ...
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  The Price of Privilege: HBO's Girls and the Logic of Post-

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  Chris Tokuhama University of Southern California

  January 11, 2013

  1 comment

  the widest audience possible but I think that the more interesting question is to consider just who ... extended adolescence of Hannah Horvath but also, more dangerously, suggests a possible reason why the ...
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  Re: Slapstick "Sexposition": Girls vs. the Body Politics of HBO

  Everyday Sex

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  Maria San Filippo Emerson College

  Wednesday, January 9, 2013 — 11:16 pm

  cinefeminists to be equally populated by male and female filmmakers alike, so I’m tempted to connect the dots... ...
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  Slapstick "Sexposition": Girls vs. the Body Politics of HBO

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  Phillip Maciak University of Pennsylvania

  January 09, 2013

  6 comments

  Slapstick "Sexposition": Girls vs. the Body Politics of HBO Sexposition Girls: Diversity and Sexuality Game of Thrones Curator's Note When Lena Dunham’s Girls debuted in Spring 2012, the biggest thing on HBO was Game of Thrones. A proto-typ ...

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