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  Managing Little Orphan Annie’s excesses

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  Avi Santo Old Dominion University

  November 30, 2007

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  Managing Little Orphan Annie’s excesses children NBC radio Blackett-Sample-Hummert 1930s Little Orphan Annie premiums production studies authorship Ovaltine Curator's Note Please press play on the viewer to the left to hear soundtrack. Advance the sl ...
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  A Failure of Imagination: The role of disability in AVATAR

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  Jennifer Proctor University of Michigan-Dearborn

  August 10, 2010

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  A Failure of Imagination: The role of disability in AVATAR disability avatar ableism Curator's Note "When I was lying in the V.A. hospital with a big hole blown through the middle of my life, I started having these dreams of flying. I was free. ...
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  Aging and Action Authenticity

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  Yvonne Tasker University of East Anglia

  August 12, 2010

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  Aging and Action Authenticity gender Aging action Curator's Note The imminent release of The Expendables underlines the continuing presence of aging action stars. 1980s action stars such as Stallone, Willis, Ford and Gibson are hardly without precede ...
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  Puzzling Spectatorship

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  Sarah Hamblin Michigan State University

  December 15, 2010

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  Puzzling Spectatorship Puzzle Films film spectatorship DVD technology Curator's Note Whenever I teach Christopher Nolan’s Memento or Michael Haneke’s Caché my students invariably respond in one of two ways: half hate the films – they struggle with th ...
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  Austerity Lustre: The Fight in Creed

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  Sean Redmond Deakin University

  April 22, 2016

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  Austerity Lustre: The Fight in Creed the ghetto legacy austerity Curator's Note He just fights all the time Creed speaks to the post GFC crisis and the politics of austerity. Legacy in the film isn’t simply patriarchal, familial, nor a film franchise ...
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  Re: Video and Trafficking

  Conflating issues, identities and experiences

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  Vibhuti Ramachandran New York University

  Friday, November 13, 2009 — 9:56 pm

  observed two threads running through these PSAs- for one, a sort of 'universalization' of the ...
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  Fosse/Verdon: The Diva and the Trouper in the Era of #Me Too

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  Dennis Bingham Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

  October 23, 2019

  YouTube clips of Ed Sullivan Show performances made during the run of Sweet Charity might provide the best ...
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  Queer World Making in Canadian Comedies

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  Jason Edward Black University of North Carolina at Charlotte

  May 22, 2020

  a cis-het South Korean couple and their first generation adult children running a convenience store in ...
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  Behind the intersected fears

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  kamil University of Bialystok

  November 16, 2020

  reference to the convention of “catch and run” movies, very fast rhythm balances between the idea of killing ...
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  BLACK AND HEAVY

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  Kristin Denise Rowe California State University Fullerton

  September 08, 2022

  Black women’s vulnerability and inner lives is a thread that runs through Lizzo’s recent work. Nowhere ...

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