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  “Define Good”: The Anxious Pleasures of Subscribing to HBO

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  Avi Santo Old Dominion University

  April 13, 2007

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  and high-mindedness but must simultaneously seek out as many new subscribers as possible and continue ... hold of its patriarchal reigns by embracing its masochistic side and “taking it like a man”. Might HBO ...
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  Re: The Making of “Desi” Culture on MTV

  Is it possible that a more

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  Radhika Gajjala Bowling Green State University

  Sunday, April 15, 2007 — 9:12 pm

  Is it possible that a more globally aware and nuanced "desi" is emerging out of this? It ...
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  Re: “Define Good”: The Anxious Pleasures of Subscribing to HBO

  Just to follow-up Dave's

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  Jason Mittell Middlebury College

  Tuesday, April 17, 2007 — 4:16 am

  Just to follow-up Dave's point, I think HBO does play multiple sides of the gender street, as ...
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  Television and Reality: The Politics of Representation in Celebrity Big Brother, U.K.

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  Shanti Kumar University of Texas at Austin

  April 17, 2007

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  (with three other housemates on Goody's side). Over the course of the show as the arguments and ...
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  Re: Television and Reality: The Politics of Representation in Celebrity Big Brother, U.K.

  Agreed, Shanti -- when I

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  Jonathan Gray University of Wisconsin - Madison

  Wednesday, April 18, 2007 — 5:48 pm

  "solve" racism. And yet, as with the recent Imus affair this side of the Atlantic, the ritualistic display ...
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  Reality TV in a War Zone

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  Serra Tinic University of Alberta

  April 23, 2007

  8 comments

  Reality TV in a War Zone reality TV Labour and Materials Iraqi Star Iraq international TV formats globalization global/local Extreme Makeover American Idol Curator's Note I consistently struggle with the concept of hybridity when we hit the section o ...
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  “All Skin Is Not Created Equal”: Televisual Flow and Racial Ideology

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  Ronald Becker Miami University

  April 24, 2007

  2 comments

  “All Skin Is Not Created Equal”: Televisual Flow and Racial Ideology race 1990s NBC Raymond Williams pedagogy flow Newsradio Andie McDowell L'Oreal commercial beauty Curator's Note We all likely have our favorite examples of televisual flow—thos ...
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  Re: “All Skin Is Not Created Equal”: Televisual Flow and Racial Ideology

  It would be interesting to

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  Kathleen Fitzpatrick Michigan State University

  Tuesday, April 24, 2007 — 8:20 pm

  program and the commercial. There are any number of interesting possibilities: the problem of ...
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  Re-visioning Arab Identity in US Popular Culture

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  Karin Wilkins University of Texas at Austin

  April 25, 2007

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  Re-visioning Arab Identity in US Popular Culture satire race transcoding representation stereotyping Planet of the Arabs mocumentary Arabs Curator's Note The edited clips in this brief video were constructed by Jacqueline Salloum to complement Jack S ...
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  Re: Re-visioning Arab Identity in US Popular Culture

  Salloum's piece is great,

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  Avi Santo Old Dominion University

  Wednesday, April 25, 2007 — 7:17 pm

  there isn't a spectrum of possible Arab identities. Is this a case of one step forward, two steps ...

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