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  Steel Magnolia: Nancy Grace and the Epistemology of Place

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  Hollis Griffin Denison University

  March 30, 2007

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  on. Viewers learned that Grace was a prosecutor, victims' rights advocate and a crime victim ...
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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� ...
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  Can Catwoman Challenge Patriarchy?

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  Michael Lecker George Mason University

  September 28, 2007

  Catwoman (in issue #60, where we learn Catwoman’s greatest fear is relying too heavily on Batman because ...
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  ”I Miss my superfast broadband!” Comical heroes in phone operator’s TV commercial

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  Sari Elfving University of Tampere (Finland)

  November 06, 2007

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  are making fun of popular films such as Rambo and Mission Impossible. In this scene they run on the ...
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  Convergence Fashion: Hailing the Gossip Girl Fan

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  Louisa Stein Middlebury College

  November 22, 2007

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  and privilege as adolescent constraints, akin to more run of the mill coming of age issues such as ...
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  “You Got No Idea What’s Goin’ On On That Island!”: What SNL Can Teach Us About Lost

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  Ivan Askwith Big Spaceship

  February 13, 2008

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  running commentary throughout from a cynical viewer of the show, who insists that Lost’s writers have no ...
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  Mothers and Daughters: Watching The Gilmore Girls

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  Barbara Selznick University of Arizona

  February 19, 2008

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  Mothers and Daughters: Watching The Gilmore Girls gender representation WB melodrama Gilmore Girls auto-ethnography affect motherhood ideology guilty pleasures Curator's Note I wait until late in the semester to tell my students that I was a loyal vi ...
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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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  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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  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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