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Emily Thorne as Amanda Clarke's Hyper-Feminine 'Trojan Horse'

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Bridgett Vanderhoof University of Wisconsin-Madison

February 11, 2015

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character in a show that passes the Bechdel test (however shakily), and convinces the audience to side with ...

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Amy Schumer: Enemy of the Status Quo

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Kathleen Collins John Jay College of Criminal Justice (City University of New York)

February 12, 2015

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Amy Schumer: Enemy of the Status Quo television race gender comedy amy schumer Curator's Note Comedian-auteur Amy Schumer, creator of the Comedy Central sketch program Inside Amy Schumer, is both hero and anti-hero. Where female comics are still try ...

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Comedians as heroes

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Kathleen Collins John Jay College of Criminal Justice (City University of New York)

Thursday, February 12, 2015 — 2:38 pm

side. I also think of Lisa Kudrow's two characters in The Comeback and Web Therapy. We get to know ...

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Television's "Bad" Mothers: Putting the "Anti" in the Antiheroine

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Barbara Selznick University of Arizona

February 13, 2015

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Television's "Bad" Mothers: Putting the "Anti" in the Antiheroine The Killing The Americans Television’s Female Antihero(ine) Mothers Mad Men Curator's Note To get to the (simplified) point: U.S. television’s antiheroines ar ...

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Why Betty takes the joy out of gumdrops

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Kathleen Collins John Jay College of Criminal Justice (City University of New York)

Friday, February 13, 2015 — 3:32 pm

well-being. Of the clips you shared, the one I’m most familiar with is Betty, and her story is the one that ...

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La Venganza De Pancho Villa: Picturing Race

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Laura Isabel Serna University of Southern California

February 17, 2015

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African American 10th cavalry regiment and carrancista troops. Here Padilla leaves to the side the delight ...

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Bridges, Tunnels, Fences, and Moats: Border Visual Metaphors in The Bridge (TV series, FX, 2013)

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Hector Amaya University of Virginia

February 18, 2015

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the possibilities of entering or exiting. Borders, particularly the border between USA and Mexico, ... present a rich array of possibilities for crossing. Some of these possibilities are found in the TV show ... backdrop of economic exploitation made possible by neoliberal understandings of free trade, this popular ...

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Connective Borders

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David R. Coon University of Washington Tacoma

Wednesday, February 18, 2015 — 6:38 pm

remains central, as no story is limited to just one side of the border. Personal relationships, business ... deals, and criminal activities have roots on both sides, and it is the connection of the border that ...

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