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  The Academic Politics of Fifty Shades of Grey

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  Karen Petruska University of California, Santa Barbara

  September 25, 2012

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  The Academic Politics of Fifty Shades of Grey quality gender Fifty Shades of Grey academia 50 Shades Curator's Note There’s a lot you have probably heard about Fifty Shades of Grey —it is poorly written, it started as Twilight fan fiction, it present ...
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  Teaching the Phenomena

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  Suzanne Leonard Simmons College

  Tuesday, September 25, 2012 — 12:28 pm

  I off-handedly offered to run an informal student discussion on the book's incredible popularity, and the ...
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  “Who's Your Mr. and Mrs. Grey?”: Unpacking Casting Speculations in Fifty Shades of Grey

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  Kristen Warner University of Alabama

  September 26, 2012

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  “Who's Your Mr. and Mrs. Grey?”: Unpacking Casting Speculations in Fifty Shades of Grey Production Cultures Fifty Shades of Grey fandom casting Curator's Note As a scholar whose research focuses on casting processes in television and film I am b ...
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  Fifty Shades of Grey and "Mommy Porn"

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  Erika Johnson-Lewis St. Petersburg College

  September 27, 2012

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  "Suburban Christian" attractive because he picks up the ice cream cake and runs other simple errands. ...
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  Gravity Falls as a Transgenerational Cultural Forum

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  Molly Sharp The Ohio State University

  October 10, 2012

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  Dipper thinks his culture wants him to be. Originally enamored with Rumble, Dipper slowly comes to learn ... children nor adults. Children learn sex and gender categories very early, and negotiating their meanings, ...
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  This Is A Kids' Show?: The Legend of Korra's Adult Themes

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  Charlotte Howell University of Texas at Austin

  October 12, 2012

  its morality grey, and its lessons hard-learned. As a show with young teens and tweens as its main ... Puppetmaster," moral-compass Katara learns the dark variation of her waterbending: manipulating the blood within ...
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  The Cost of a Home Outside of Hollywood: Tyler Perry and Oscar Micheaux

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  Timeka N. Williams University of Michigan

  October 22, 2012

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  The Cost of a Home Outside of Hollywood: Tyler Perry and Oscar Micheaux Tyler Perry Oscar Micheaux media ownership media mogul Black cinema Curator's Note The 200,000 square foot studio that serves as the headquarters of the Tyler Perry empire in Atl ...
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  Speaking about responsibilty...

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  Rashida Z. Shaw, Ph.D. Wesleyan University

  Tuesday, October 23, 2012 — 12:37 am

  (that I am happy to learn has roots with Micheaux) and begins to use these studio spaces to generate and ... he were to share his resources and teach what he has learned, he would not only ensure the longevity ...
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  Performance Politics: The Subversive Pleasure of Perry

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  Rashida Z. Shaw, Ph.D. Wesleyan University

  October 24, 2012

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  have learned to ferret out the beneficial and put up blinders against the rest.” (For more see ...
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  Meet The House of Perry

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  Brian Jordan Bremer moon4 Productions, People Store

  October 26, 2012

  continually improves. That the product, in my estimation, improved as he learned, honed, and defined his craft ...

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