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

I Basically Agree but...

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Jeff Casey University of Wisconsin-Madison

Tuesday, December 16, 2014 — 11:14 pm

resignation asking, “But who am I to argue...?” Here I’m projecting my own discomfort onto the film and Tonto ... specifically, imagining the character as expressing my desire for escape, but I don’t think I’m alone in this ... granted that at the outset, I’m interested in the way the film’s own logic collapses on itself in ...

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

sidekick containmment

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Daniel Keyes University of British Columbia

Tuesday, December 16, 2014 — 9:44 pm

I agree with Micheal's comment above that side kicks as an off shoot of the buddy film are ...

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

Side Kick Booster Shot

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Michael Peterson University of Wisconsin, Madison

Tuesday, December 16, 2014 — 2:37 pm

"perfunctory" side--but I don't think it's a perfunctory acknowledgement so much as a peremptory ...

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

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Jeff Casey University of Wisconsin-Madison

December 16, 2014

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Can the Sidekick Protest? The Dissonant Sidekick and the Limits of Representing Difference in Contemporary Media gender genre homosocial frienship homosociality Race and Representation sidekicks whiteness Curator's Note Gore Verbinski’s The Lone Rang ...

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Philan-selfie: Attribution Vs. Contribution

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Lindsay Bosch Video Data Bank

December 12, 2014

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surrounding #YesAllWomen, #BringBackOurGirls and #Kony2012 evidenced a possible colonization of causes that ...

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Forget the Pain- Indulge for Change

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Emily Kofoed Georgia State University

December 10, 2014

yet it raised a substantial amount of money and received a fair amount of press. I’m interested in how ...

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Re: The Koch Brothers Rebranding Through Philanthropy

Implications.

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Suzanne V. L. Berg Newman University

Tuesday, December 9, 2014 — 4:02 am

I have neoliberalism and nomlists rhetoric stuck in my head. There is a strange side effect of ...

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The Koch Brothers Rebranding Through Philanthropy

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Suzanne V. L. Berg Newman University

December 08, 2014

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The Koch Brothers Rebranding Through Philanthropy politics Koch Conspicuous Philanthropy Curator's Note I work at a liberal arts university in Wichita. One of the first things I noticed about my university was the names of the buildings: one for a ca ...

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Re: Black Moses Barbie and the Humor of Black Trauma