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  Media Portrayal of the Chinese Cultural Norm of Filial Piety in a Chinese Magazine Targeted at the Older Population

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  Yan Bing Zhang University of Kansas

  March 24, 2009

  6 comments

  Media Portrayal of the Chinese Cultural Norm of Filial Piety in a Chinese Magazine Targeted at the Older Population advertising Aging culture Curator's Note Filial piety (i.e., Xiao) is a Chinese traditional belief that older adults should be respect ...
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  Re: Advertising and the Older Generation: Humerous or Degrading?

  Advertising and the portrayal of older people

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  Margot van der Goot Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands

  Monday, March 23, 2009 — 5:10 pm

  same time, it is possible to say that the portrayal of the woman in the commercial is all positive: She ...
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  Re: Advertising and the Older Generation: Humerous or Degrading?

  Perhaps it serves both functions

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  Melissa Aleman James Madison University, School of Communication Studies

  Monday, March 23, 2009 — 2:33 pm

  wonder if it is possible that a new image of an aging technologically competent woman is acceptable as ...
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  Advertising and the Older Generation: Humerous or Degrading?

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  Caja Thimm University of Bonn, Germany

  March 23, 2009

  6 comments

  Advertising and the Older Generation: Humerous or Degrading? technology Stereotypes old age Curator's Note Guided by a perspective that advertisements are not just about selling products, brand names, and services, I am studying the content and socia ...
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  What Bad Does

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  James Daniel Elam Northwestern University

  March 20, 2009

  3 comments

  success on iTunes and will supposedly hit retail outlets soon.   It may be possible to brush the video ...
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  Re: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the "Killer Condom"

  Now I want "Killer Condom 2: Ribbed for Her Terror"

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  Kaelin B.C. Alexander Cornell University

  Friday, March 20, 2009 — 3:12 am

  part, sure. But I’d also offer that Killer Condom welcomes the possibility that its spectacular genre ...
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  Re: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the "Killer Condom"

  I could never come up with a better title than Killer Condom

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  Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece Northwestern University

  Thursday, March 19, 2009 — 8:04 pm

  shifting and discursive motion? Finally, I’m wondering at what points or in what genres bad film functions ...
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  Re: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the "Killer Condom"

  Who's bad?

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  James Daniel Elam Northwestern University

  Thursday, March 19, 2009 — 2:19 pm

  the way. Especially given the very comic, very cliché NYPD Italian cop name, I feel like I’m watching ...
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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

  7 comments

  Bad Film Curator's Note Killer Condom (1996) is quite possibly the most pro-queer film of the ...
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  Re: Some movies are bad, but some are undead: Watchmen

  fantastic responses!

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  Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece Northwestern University

  Wednesday, March 18, 2009 — 7:09 pm

  Thanks, everyone, for some truly insightful and provocative comments. I’m delighted to read all of ... Watchmen)?  I really think there’s something to the visual-to-visual medium here, but I’m not sure what; I’d ... going to try to fake it in the fakest way possible.  To at least gesture toward an answer to your final ...

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