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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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  Brian Regan: “Poking a stick at the world”

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  Kathleen Collins John Jay College of Criminal Justice (City University of New York)

  May 19, 2016

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  male, Regan counters the system with sarcastic barbs and beleaguered refrains of “I’m trying.” Though ...
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  Re: "Talk Bernie to Me": Political (and Sexual) Authority in an Unofficial Bernie Sanders Campaign Song

  Political Chemistry

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  Perin Gurel University of Notre Dame

  Wednesday, May 18, 2016 — 6:11 pm

  side. Specifically, your analysis of parody made me think of the scene where the Broad City hipster ...
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  Re: Poems from Guantanamo: A Staged Musical Work Inspired by Poetry of Detainees Held in Guantanamo

  A Few Thoughts

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  Kristen A. Traynor Kent State University

  Saturday, May 14, 2016 — 7:31 pm

  a political piece, but without the willingness to face this challenge (and possible backlash), the broader ...
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  GTMO as Museum Artifact

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  Michael Welch Rutgers University

  May 13, 2016

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  GTMO as Museum Artifact war on terror human rights GTMO Curator's Note GTMO as Museum Artefact Michael Welch, Professor, Rutgers University, USA In my recent book, Escape to Prison: Penal Tourism and the Pull of Punishment (2015, University of Califo ...
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  Poems from Guantanamo: A Staged Musical Work Inspired by Poetry of Detainees Held in Guantanamo

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  Sam Krahn Independent

  May 13, 2016

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  a CRT-style TV on one side and the narrator and violas on the other, behind a scrim. For a composer brought ...
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  What CBS News Is (and Is Not) Saying about the Battle over Closing Guantánamo Bay

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  Kristen A. Traynor Kent State University

  May 12, 2016

  action. The danger of this portrayal is that the facts of each side’s case take a backseat to the battle ...
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  Re: GTMO as Museum Artifact

  the critique of imprisonment from within and without

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  Alexandra Moore UNC Greensboro

  Wednesday, May 11, 2016 — 6:12 am

  more about the relationships that make that exchange possible? I wonder, too, about the visitors to the ...
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  "Talk Bernie to Me": Political (and Sexual) Authority in an Unofficial Bernie Sanders Campaign Song

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  Dana Gorzelany-Mostak Georgia College

  May 09, 2016

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  "Talk Bernie to Me": Political (and Sexual) Authority in an Unofficial Bernie Sanders Campaign Song music video feminism campaign song Curator's Note During the 2008 election, Obama Girl positioned her namesake candidate as an object of bot ...
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  Re: Rethinking Thinkpieces: Pop Criticism as Pop Culture

  ripple effects

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  Michael Lawrence Unaffiliated

  Friday, May 6, 2016 — 8:25 pm

  song" gets truncated. Another possible significance, which connects back to the first point you raise, ...

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