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  The Link Prank: A Legacy of the Internet Cowboy

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  Ethan Tussey Georgia State University

  March 04, 2010

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  Wild West feature rough and tumble men exploring the possibilities of the new frontier, stories of the ... allure of the website is the possibility of finding something shocking.   Anderson asserts in the piece ...
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  Re: The girls have caught up to the boys

  What a find, Robert! Not only

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  Kaelin B.C. Alexander Cornell University

  Thursday, March 4, 2010 — 1:26 am

  "advancement" possible, it also regurgitates, almost flawlessly, the predictable rhetoric of moral panic ... platter—albeit with the requisite, tasteful facial blurring, of course. Fortuitously, I’m finishing up a unit on ...
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  The girls have caught up to the boys

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  Robert Gehl George Mason University

  March 03, 2010

  5 comments

  The girls have caught up to the boys voyeurism sexuality psychology masculinity girls and violence Curator's Note /*-->*/ To be fair to Dr. Hartstein, I don't really know how to take her analysis that “the girls are catching up to the boys.” ...
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  Back to Nurture: Bear Bodies and The Tactile Tactics of Queer Masculinity

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  Kaelin B.C. Alexander Cornell University

  March 02, 2010

  5 comments

  by the restraints of a culture which, for possibly the first time, was coded as feminine. Through ... resist and side-step homonormative beauty standards—characterized by smooth, gym-toned bodies—as well as ... gentle, tender, and nurturing possibilities for male-male contact. This archive stands in stark contrast ...
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  Re: Contemporary Male Masculinity in 30 Seconds

  Keeping Our Bases--and Asses--Covered

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  Kaelin B.C. Alexander Cornell University

  Tuesday, March 2, 2010 — 1:30 am

  masculinity advertisement  (for beer, appropriately), and on the theme of this week’s IMR, I’m left wondering: ... in the implausibility of its escape fantasy. But at the same time, I’m not quite sure how body wash ... and a shiny new phallus sportscar could possibly be enough compensation for the trials and ...
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  Contemporary Male Masculinity in 30 Seconds

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  Peter Alilunas University of Oregon

  March 01, 2010

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  Contemporary Male Masculinity in 30 Seconds masculinity advertising Super Bowl Curator's Note As someone who studies mediated depictions of male masculinity, I find that the Super Bowl represents the Holy Grail of annual research opportunities.   Whi ...
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  Re: BABEL and Film Authorship

  Babel: Editing the Border

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  Katherine Newbold Northwestern University

  Sunday, February 28, 2010 — 7:06 am

  the other side of the border. Crise and Mirrione follow this image with five shots involving pans, ...
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  BABEL and Film Authorship

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  Virginia Wright Wexman Northwestern University

  February 27, 2010

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  BABEL and Film Authorship collaboration BABEL authorship auteurism Curator's Note As a way of directing attention to often-overlooked craftspeople who work in mainstream movies, we are offering several readings of this sequence from the 2007 film Bab ...
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  On Tuning In Next Week

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  Anne Moore Tufts University

  February 26, 2010

  (Shark men! Torture pit!) that might not be possible in a more cohesive ongoing narrative. ...
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  Real Men Wear Heels

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  Madison Moore Yale University

  February 23, 2010

  it's about what's next, what's coming. Possibility, in other words. Rad shows that it’s ... possible for men to wear heels, and not only that it's possible, but it should in fact be ...

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