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  Re: Austerity Lustre: The Fight in Creed

  The motorcycle scene and the talented tenth

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  Rebecca Sheehan United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney

  Tuesday, April 26, 2016 — 2:30 am

  economics, that undermines some of the film's more radical possibilities. Or is that inevitable when ...
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  Re: “If I fight, you fight”: Sly Stallone and the aged action star’s triumphant submission in Creed

  Johnson-Creed

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  Rebecca Sheehan United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney

  Tuesday, April 26, 2016 — 1:41 am

  remain a Johnson is interesting. I wonder here if there are possibilities for teasing this out further. ...
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  Re: Ryan Coogler Gets in the Ring with Cultural Moynihanism in Fruitvale Station and Creed

  Patriarchs and matriarchs

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  Rebecca Sheehan United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney

  Tuesday, April 26, 2016 — 1:26 am

  the discussion between you and Sean, I take your point about the side-stepping of the realities of ...
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  Austerity Lustre: The Fight in Creed

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  Sean Redmond Deakin University

  April 22, 2016

  11 comments

  Austerity Lustre: The Fight in Creed the ghetto legacy austerity Curator's Note He just fights all the time Creed speaks to the post GFC crisis and the politics of austerity. Legacy in the film isn’t simply patriarchal, familial, nor a film franchise ...
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  Re: Body Body Body

  (im)mortal bodies

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  Sean Redmond Deakin University

  Thursday, April 21, 2016 — 9:58 pm

  What a fantastic piece of writing- really like the (co) synaesthetic nature of your response and the way bodies are seen to love and hate in intimate detail. The film is haunted by absent bodies and the bodies that have aged- these are bodies that are mor ...
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  What Happens When We Watch What Happens Live?, or The Aftershow as Critical Mediation

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  Jennifer S. Clark Fordham University

  April 21, 2016

  2 comments

  What Happens When We Watch What Happens Live?, or The Aftershow as Critical Mediation Watch What Happens Live The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills reality TV labor Bravo After TV Curator's Note On the April 5, 2016 episode of Watch What Happens Live ...
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  Body Body Body

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  Amelie Hastie Amherst College

  April 21, 2016

  5 comments

  Body Body Body Creed Ryan Coogler authorship Curator's Note In the 11th round of Adonis Creed’s fight against reigning champ “Pretty Ricky” Conlan, Rocky coaches him from the sidelines: “Body, body, body!” he shouts. This phrase — this repetition of ...
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  Your Legacy is More Than a Name: Creed and the Resurrection of the Boxing Film

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  Rebecca Sheehan United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney

  April 20, 2016

  5 comments

  know I’m not a mistake.” The audience’s willingness to cheer for Donny matters more to the film’s ...
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  Ryan Coogler Gets in the Ring with Cultural Moynihanism in Fruitvale Station and Creed

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  Hannah Hamad University of East Anglia

  April 19, 2016

  7 comments

  Ryan Coogler Gets in the Ring with Cultural Moynihanism in Fruitvale Station and Creed Ryan Coogler race masculinity Fruitvale Station fatherhood Creed Curator's Note Writer-director Ryan Coogler's inaugural feature Fruitvale Station, a dramatiz ...
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  “If I fight, you fight”: Sly Stallone and the aged action star’s triumphant submission in Creed

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  Glen Donnar RMIT University

  April 18, 2016

  9 comments

  “If I fight, you fight”: Sly Stallone and the aged action star’s triumphant submission in Creed Sylvester Stallone Rocky masculinity boxing film ageing action stardom 80s action Curator's Note The training montage is a genre staple of the boxing film ...

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