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  “A Trek for Our Time”: The Continuing Relevance and Resonance of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

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  Allison McCracken DePaul University

  March 19, 2007

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  women in leading roles and foreground non-normative gender and sexual roles. During its run, DS-9 was ...
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  How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the "Killer Condom"

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  Kaelin B.C. Alexander Cornell University

  March 19, 2009

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  How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the "Killer Condom" Sci-fi Queer Studies horror ...
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  Bollywood Bad: Toward an Aesthetics of the Failed Future

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  Barton Scott Montana State University

  March 17, 2009

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  Bollywood Bad: Toward an Aesthetics of the Failed Future Sci-fi Bollywood bad movies Curator's Note Love Story 2050 (dir. Harry Baweja, 2008), despite massive promotion and glitzy special effects, flopped hard—it was, to steal a joke from another fil ...
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  Yellow Fever: Born Digital on Battlestar Galactica

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  Lisa Nakamura University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign

  July 09, 2007

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  Yellow Fever: Born Digital on Battlestar Galactica stereotyping Sci-fi representation race digital Battlestar Galactica Asian Curator's Note Sharon Valerii, played by Korean-Canadian actress Grace Park, is a young, pretty, highly educated Asian woman ...