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  Re: "I'm not a feminist… I love men": Rethinking Lady Gaga’s Postfeminist Rhetoric and its Potential for Social Change

  Must we paint Gaga with the postfeminist brush?

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  Dom Nasilowski Concordia University

  Thursday, August 5, 2010 — 11:27 pm

  she would run this risk of being labeled a 'feminist' pop icon creating 'feminist' ...
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  Re: Lady Gaga's Phallicity

  OOOh la la...

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  Karin Sellberg and Michael O'Rourke The University of Queensland; Independent Colleges Dublin

  Friday, August 6, 2010 — 3:01 am

  overdetermining all else. We need to learn how to think in terms of amongstness rather than beneathness (or ...
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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

  6 comments

  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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  Re: A Failure of Imagination: The role of disability in AVATAR

  The frailty of the body

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  Drew Ayers Eastern Washington University

  Tuesday, August 10, 2010 — 1:39 pm

  interesting because it highlights a theme that runs throughout action films (specifically 'hardbody' ... speaks to a more broadly philosophical perspective that runs throughout Avatar: that of the ability to ...
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  The World in Action

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  Mark Gallagher University of Nottingham

  August 11, 2010

  5 comments

  Europa Corp. have stoked the screen popularity of parkour and free-running styles. Europe continues to ...
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  Aging and Action Authenticity

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  Yvonne Tasker University of East Anglia

  August 12, 2010

  8 comments

  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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  Re: Aging and Action Authenticity

  Aging Gracefully?

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  Drew Ayers Eastern Washington University

  Thursday, August 12, 2010 — 3:26 pm

  running.  Perhaps it speaks to Eastwood's confidence in his long career of portraying simliar ...
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  Re: Aging and Action Authenticity

  Lancaster was in his mid-50s

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  Matt Thomas University of Iowa

  Thursday, August 12, 2010 — 5:30 pm

  Prey. The list goes on and on. A lot of 50+ male stars spend a lot of time running around without their ...
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  The Body That Can't Win

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  Matt Thomas University of Iowa

  August 13, 2010

  5 comments

  The Body That Can't Win The Expendables the body Stallone Rocky Rambo masculinity action Curator's Note Sylvester Stallone’s body used to be relatively ordinary looking. Carl Weathers is the superior physical specimen in Rocky (1976)   and Rocky ...
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  Re: The Body That Can't Win

  Thanks, Yvonne, for your

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  Matt Thomas University of Iowa

  Friday, August 13, 2010 — 2:56 pm

  Someone that veiny shouldn't be running around with his shirt off. Etc. When Stallone transformed his ...

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