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  Re: Ironic Authenticity: Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping

  I haven’t seen the film

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  Viveca Greene Hampshire College

  Tuesday, January 15, 2008 — 7:29 pm

  thoughts. I’m interested in irony as it's used as a rhetorical strategy: how ironists flatter and court ... him). Later this week I’m going to address a political campaign ad that arguably attempts something ...
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  Re: Ironic Authenticity: Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping

  Not knowing much about

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  Catherine Burwell University of Toronto

  Tuesday, January 15, 2008 — 5:47 pm

  change and the possibility – as you suggest at the end of your post – that politically-significant ...
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  Re: South Park’s Ironic Whiteness

  Thanks to Ted for starting

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  Catherine Burwell University of Toronto

  Tuesday, January 15, 2008 — 8:08 am

  polysemy of the text or the possibility of multiple interpretive positions, but just to come back to ...
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  Ironic Authenticity: Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping

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  Amber Day Bryant University

  January 15, 2008

  7 comments

  Ironic Authenticity: Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping culture jamming performance art parody consumerism religion irony authenticity Reverend Billy Church of Stop Shopping What Would Jesus Buy Curator's Note Reverend Billy is the bouffa ...
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  Re: South Park’s Ironic Whiteness

  I tend to agree with Viveca

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  Amber Day Bryant University

  Tuesday, January 15, 2008 — 3:29 am

  other words, it seems like the possibility of highly diverse readings of the show's humor is built ...
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  South Park’s Ironic Whiteness

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  Ted Gournelos Old Dominion University

  January 14, 2008

  8 comments

  South Park’s Ironic Whiteness whiteness race South Park Comedy Central destabilize Michael Richards Richard Dyer George Lipsitz irony A Time to Kill Training Day Curator's Note As scholars like Richard Dyer and George Lipsitz have pointed out, one of ...
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  Re: Voices Of Uncertainty - The AMPTP In Their Own Words

  There's a very high degree

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  Derek Kompare Southern Methodist University

  Friday, December 21, 2007 — 11:17 pm

  drag the carcasses of 20th century media industries into the 21st, or (on the other side) bury the ...
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  Re: Strike You!

  Excellent point about

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  Derek Kompare Southern Methodist University

  Thursday, December 20, 2007 — 8:53 pm

  that much higher (and that those already on the other side don't much have to worry about). ...
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  Voices Of Uncertainty- The AMPTP In Their Own Words

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  Jennifer Holt University of California, Santa Barbara

  December 20, 2007

  1 comment

  Voices Of Uncertainty- The AMPTP In Their Own Words internet political economy publicity WGA strike AMPTP public relations conglomeration residuals Curator's Note Members of the AMPTP are seen here sounding quite certain that the internet is the futu ...
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  Re: Strike You!

  Excellent video and

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  Derek Kompare Southern Methodist University

  Thursday, December 20, 2007 — 6:54 am

  Obviously, both sides have and will make as much hay from this as possible (e.g., the huge difference between ...

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