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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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  Classifying Stand-Up Specials with Netflix's Algorithmic Genres

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  Stephanie Brown Washington College

  April 22, 2019

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  Data genre Curator's Note In the most recent episode of his long-running podcast WTF, stand-up ...
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  Asians Can Dance ~ Check out: JabbaWockeeZ, Kaba Modern, and Planet B-Boy

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  L.S. Kim University of California, Santa Cruz

  April 29, 2008

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  as the director of the new documentary PLANET B-BOY (planetbboy.com) astonished when he learned that ...
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  “Define Good”: The Anxious Pleasures of Subscribing to HBO

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  Avi Santo Old Dominion University

  April 13, 2007

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  “Define Good”: The Anxious Pleasures of Subscribing to HBO narrative branding HBO masculinity Rome genre quality TV masochism premium cable Curator's Note HBO’s anti-television branding strategies are also gendered affairs. If TV and its viewers have ...
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  Westen Meets Lawson: Formula as Brand and the Potential of a USA Network Genre

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  Charlotte Howell University of Texas at Austin

  July 12, 2010

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  Westen Meets Lawson: Formula as Brand and the Potential of a USA Network Genre USA Network genre formula brand Curator's Note Royal Pains premiered in 2009, and in many ways it stands as the exemplar of the (possible) USA Network genre. It uses the f ...