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  Hulk Smash Wimpy White Man Who is Also Hulk: Reasserting Masculine Authority through Masochism

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  Avi Santo Old Dominion University

  March 21, 2008

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  debuted on CBS November 4, 1977 and would run for 87 episodes until 1982, followed by three made for TV ... radiation after learning how a black mother was able to rescue her son from a trapped car under similar ... masculinity-on-the-run formula that would become popular in the 1980s (The A-Team, Knight Rider), in which Banner ...
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  Nathan for You and Cable's Contested Masculinities

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  Nick Marx Colorado State University

  August 21, 2014

  City, and Key & Peele have earned much of the attention in Comedy Central’s recent run of standout ...
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  Family Affairs: Gay Visibility and Hegemonic Masculinity in ’70s TV

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  Joe Wlodarz University of Western Ontario

  March 18, 2008

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  admit to their gay crushes as teenagers before Willie runs off to make amends with Zeke. In the shift ...
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  What I learned by taking 30 years of Keanu Reeves movies seriously

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  Charisse L'Pree Syracuse University

  August 12, 2019

  What I learned by taking 30 years of Keanu Reeves movies seriously Keanu Reeves race gender ...
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  Luke Spencer: General Hospital’s Repentant Rapist

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  Elana Levine

  March 19, 2008

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  Luke Spencer: General Hospital’s Repentant Rapist patriarchy gender rape masculinity masochism soap operas 1970s General Hospital violence guilt Curator's Note As the 1970s drew to a close, the most popular character on US daytime television soap ope ...
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  Feminist Sopranos

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  Maurice Yacowar University of Calgary

  June 29, 2007

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  Feminist Sopranos HBO gender masculinity The Sopranos Curator's Note The drama opens on this sculpture in Dr Melfi's office. Tony is introduced as discomfited by Woman, indeed caught in its scissor. The old skirt-chaser fears the feminine. He� ...