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Pee-Wee’s Daddy

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December 30, 2014

Pee-Wee’s Daddy Pee-Wee Herman whip cream shaving metaphor fatherhood Curator's Note While rich fathers play a role in Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure (dir. Tim Burton, 1985), Pee-Wee’s own parents are rarely mentioned in either that film or the television s ...

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Re: A Certain Bromance

Bromance

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Jeff Casey University of Wisconsin-Madison

Friday, December 19, 2014 — 11:41 pm

connected to homosexual bonding as a means of acknowledging the possibilities of homosocial bonding." ...

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Re: Joan Watson Deserves Better: Audience Reception and the Gender Politics of TV Sidekickdom

#joaniarty!

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Jeff Casey University of Wisconsin-Madison

Friday, December 19, 2014 — 9:42 pm

will-the-or-won't-they trope but pretty clearly shut the door on that possibility in the second season. Sherlock ...

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Re: Joan Watson Deserves Better: Audience Reception and the Gender Politics of TV Sidekickdom

Fans and Kitty

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Natasha Patterson Simon Fraser Unversity

Friday, December 19, 2014 — 8:53 pm

discussions are inflected with gender and race issues (the white woman side character getting more attention ...

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A Certain Bromance

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Sammi Dittloff University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

December 19, 2014

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A Certain Bromance Simon Pegg Nick Frost Jonah Hill Edgar Wright Channing Tatum Bromance Curator's Note What is the key to a perfect bromance? And what, exactly, is a bromance? Buddy comedies have been around for a long time, but it hasn’t been until ...

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Re: Heroes, Sidekicks, and Powerful Love

Hero/Villain/Sidekick

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Lisa Perks Nazareth College

Thursday, December 18, 2014 — 9:00 pm

capabilities--insulating the heroes from the "dark side," compelling them to make moral choices, etc. Jeff, ...

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Joan Watson Deserves Better: Audience Reception and the Gender Politics of TV Sidekickdom

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Natasha Patterson Simon Fraser Unversity

December 18, 2014

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Joan Watson Deserves Better: Audience Reception and the Gender Politics of TV Sidekickdom TV sidekicks Joan Watson gender politics Elementary Audience reception Curator's Note After Elementary ’s strong and critically well-received first season, Dr. ...

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Re: Heroes, Sidekicks, and Powerful Love

Structures...

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Jeff Casey University of Wisconsin-Madison

Thursday, December 18, 2014 — 2:19 am

(Jedi and wizard) in part due to a sort of birthright and prophesied destiny. (I’m actually not that up ... dark side of the force, the rings of power)—which creates a backchannel connection between the hero and ...

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Re: Can the Sidekick Protest? The Dissonant Sidekick and the Limits of Representing Difference in Contemporary Media