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  Re: The World in Action

  The ones who don't make it

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  Jennifer Proctor University of Michigan-Dearborn

  Thursday, August 12, 2010 — 1:45 am

  The interesting flip side to this post is those actors who seem poised to become the next action ...
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  The World in Action

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  Mark Gallagher University of Nottingham

  August 11, 2010

  5 comments

  The World in Action violence transnational masculinity Jija Yanin action film Curator's Note Well into the summer action-movie season, Hollywood’s prestige fare such as Iron Man 2 and Robin Hood may be a distant memory as such genre staples as The A- ...
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  Re: A Failure of Imagination: The role of disability in AVATAR

  Alternative Avatars

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  Eric LeMay Ohio University

  Tuesday, August 10, 2010 — 4:36 pm

  differently abled bodies in cinema," you seem to have hope for the possibilities that CGI offers the ... genre.  I'm keen to hear any thoughts you'd be up for sharing about the possible successes of ...
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  A Failure of Imagination: The role of disability in AVATAR

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  Jennifer Proctor University of Michigan-Dearborn

  August 10, 2010

  6 comments

  A Failure of Imagination: The role of disability in AVATAR disability avatar ableism Curator's Note "When I was lying in the V.A. hospital with a big hole blown through the middle of my life, I started having these dreams of flying. I was free. ...
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  Re: Action Tones

  Global Tone?

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  Drew Ayers Eastern Washington University

  Monday, August 9, 2010 — 2:56 pm

  is it something that is confined to Hollywood action blockbusters?  You hint at the possibility that ...
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  Action Tones

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  Eric LeMay Ohio University

  August 09, 2010

  6 comments

  new). I’m taken by this tonal element in Mann’s aesthetic not only for its own sake, but also as ...
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  Re: Lady Gaga and the High Heels of New Feminism

  Inter/facing Fashion--or, fashion sans Gaga

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  Kristopher L. Cannon Georgia State University

  Friday, August 6, 2010 — 5:39 am

  "face" more broadly--possibly theoretically.  We are talking about how she looks, how she might be ...
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  Re: Lady Gaga's Phallicity

  Telephoning the Cloth that wounds....

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  Kristopher L. Cannon Georgia State University

  Friday, August 6, 2010 — 5:12 am

  binary logics altogether. Clothing queers by aversion, flaunting the possibility to unweave its ...
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  Re: Lady Gaga's Phallicity

  OOOh la la...

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

  Friday, August 6, 2010 — 3:01 am

  complicate Butler’s gender as a "drag" performance”. It is at this point that I’m reminded of ...
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  Re: "I'm not a feminist… I love men": Rethinking Lady Gaga’s Postfeminist Rhetoric and its Potential for Social Change

  Must we paint Gaga with the postfeminist brush?

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  Dom Nasilowski Concordia University

  Thursday, August 5, 2010 — 11:27 pm

  with feminist ideas. If we identify Gaga as a "postfeminst" we preclude this possibility ...

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