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  It' so butch and femme: Reexamining Gender Representation on "The L Word"

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  Gina Mitchell Bates College

  September 21, 2009

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  couples and her embarrassment when she learns of the bar's dated reputation captures the stigma ...
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  The Yellow Peril rises from the grave... to get your White women! Orientalist themes in zombie stories

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  Eric Hamako Shoreline Community College

  September 28, 2009

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  The Yellow Peril rises from the grave... to get your White women! Orientalist themes in zombie stories race rape Orientalism Asian racism violence zombie horde Taken Resident Evil, Yellow Peril Arab Muslim sexual assault gang rape Curator's Note   In ...
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  Metamorphoses of the sexualized zombie

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  Ernesto Ignacio de Carvalho New York University

  Tuesday, September 29, 2009 — 7:45 am

  humans into the swarm gains sexual connotation in an interesting twist. Instead of a blond woman running ...
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  Dawn of the Dead (1978): Zombies and Human Nature

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  Kim Paffenroth Iona College

  September 30, 2009

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  Dawn of the Dead (1978): Zombies and Human Nature Romero zombies undead Dawn of the Dead zombie films zombie movies Curator's Note Here we have the essence of George Romero’s zombies.It comes down to two aspects: 1) zombies are merely people;2) zombi ...
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  I do agree that Romero's

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  Eric Hamako Shoreline Community College

  Friday, October 2, 2009 — 4:20 pm

  Protestant-run and-flavored corporations) and underclass hordes (generally scapegoats like Black folks or Latin@ ...
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  The shift toward wrath

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  Eric Hamako Shoreline Community College

  Friday, October 2, 2009 — 6:48 pm

  don't run," the new post-9/11 zombies do run, they scream, they brutalize-- and their biting seems ...
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  Welcome to the Carnival: Parody, Pop Music, and Presidential Politics on YouTube

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  Amber Davisson Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

  October 11, 2009

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  the candidate was often cited as saying that she “was not running as a women.” This quote was ...
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  "Would you like a treatment?": Dollhouse, pain, and memory

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  Erika Johnson-Lewis St. Petersburg College

  October 14, 2009

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  "Would you like a treatment?": Dollhouse, pain, and memory mediation Dollhouse pain programming blank slates Curator's Note The central premise of Dollhouse is that the human brain can be “wiped” of its original consciousness and a new cons ...
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  Tween Comedies and the Evolution of a Genre

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  Michael Z. Newman University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee

  October 19, 2009

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  a hit earlier this decade with Lizzie McGuire, and followed it with successful runs of That’s So Raven, ... lessons learned.   It’s no surprise to learn that the creative personnel behind many of these programs are ...
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  Forgetting the Dollhouse

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  Nina Huntemann Suffolk University

  Tuesday, October 27, 2009 — 6:07 am

  project. In "Belongings" we learn a bit more about active Sierra's entry into the Dollhouse ...

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