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Amy Schumer's Mirrors Racial Stereotypes humor comedy as mirror comedy amy schumer Curator's Note Amy Schumer's rise in comedy coincided with allegations of racial and ethnic insensitivity. Stacey Patton and David J. Leonard wrote in The Wa ...

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Trump audiences: Fired up! Ready to rumble!

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Robert Spicer Millersville University

June 02, 2016

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Trump audiences: Fired up! Ready to rumble! Trump political violence masses mass culture audience studies Curator's Note In The Citizen Audience Richard Butsch discusses changing social norms surrounding theater audiences in mid-19 th century America ...

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Re: Pretty Little Peaks: Policing the Gendered Boundary of Quality Television

Assumptions on 'Teen TV' Audiences

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Ross P Garner Cardiff University

Friday, May 27, 2016 — 10:03 am

'youth' segments (possibly mid-to-upper twenties) and this feeds in to the intertextual strategies used. ...

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Interrogating Timelessness: Twin Peaks as "Classic" Television

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Ross P Garner Cardiff University

May 26, 2016

Peaks is acknowledged as reconfiguring the aesthetic possibilities of prime time television drama during ...

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Pretty Little Peaks: Policing the Gendered Boundary of Quality Television

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Dana Och University of Pittsburgh

May 25, 2016

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Pretty Little Peaks: Policing the Gendered Boundary of Quality Television Twin Peaks soap opera Pretty Little Liars Homage cinema journal Curator's Note Twin Peaks (ABC, 1990–1991) is often invoked by critics in relation to any series that has a murd ...

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