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  The Price of Privilege: HBO's Girls and the Logic of Post-

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  Chris Tokuhama University of Southern California

  January 11, 2013

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  The Price of Privilege: HBO's Girls and the Logic of Post- Post-race Post-feminism HBO girls Curator's Note The reaction to HBO’s Girls (2012-present) was immediate and, at times, highly critical, pointing to a notable lack of racial diversity i ...
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  Re: The Price of Privilege: HBO's Girls and the Logic of Post-

  Counting class

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  Maria San Filippo Emerson College

  Friday, January 11, 2013 — 6:51 pm

  learn that the contestant identified as “the black one” confesses to similarly superficial and ...
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  Voice of a Generation?: The Potential of Authenticity in HBO’s Girls

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  Raechel Tiffe University of Minnesota

  January 15, 2013

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  Voice of a Generation?: The Potential of Authenticity in HBO’s Girls The View hipster racism girls authenticity Curator's Note In the pilot episode of HBO’s Girls, the protagonist Hannah (played by the show’s creator, Lena Dunham) proclaims that she’ ...
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  Re: Voice of a Generation?: The Potential of Authenticity in HBO’s Girls

  Exactly! Will she never learn?

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  Raechel Tiffe University of Minnesota

  Wednesday, January 16, 2013 — 8:02 pm

  didn't have a space." Has she learned nothing from the wave of more critical responses?! Dunham! You ...
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  Fifty Shades of Greige in 21st Century Hollywood

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  Rebecca Housel Wiley-Blackwell

  January 22, 2013

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  Fifty Shades of Greige in 21st Century Hollywood Twilight patriarchy Hollywood film Fifty Shades of Grey Edward E. L. James Christian Bella Bechdel Test BDSM Ana Curator's Note Between April and August of 2012, author Erica Leonard (E. L. James) sold ...
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  Re: Fifty Shades of Greige in 21st Century Hollywood

  Wait: Will that be 150 Onscreen Shades?

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  Jennie Webb LA Female Playwrights Initiative

  Wednesday, January 23, 2013 — 12:45 am

  Having not read a single shade (and only learning of the existence of "greige" after reading ...
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  At Work

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  Laura Shamas Writer and consultant; independent scholar

  January 24, 2013

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  sequence as they walk through the house. Both women “identify” as Ph.D.’s, and as we learn in the longer ...
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  Re: At Work

  Thanks for the feedback

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  Laura Shamas Writer and consultant; independent scholar

  Friday, January 25, 2013 — 4:09 am

  scene is really about two "professional" women becoming friends. We learn that it's a big ...
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  Re: “Who's Your Mr. and Mrs. Grey?”: Unpacking Casting Speculations in Fifty Shades of Grey

  I don't think I ever used the words Naive or Ignorant

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  Kristen Warner University of Alabama

  Friday, February 1, 2013 — 1:27 am

  they believe their input will actually matter in the long run. Fans have agency but how much has always ... been the question. And when news stories run that are largely shaped by fancasting, we're assuming ...
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  Affect, Location, and Identification in 30 Days

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  Daniel Marcus Goucher College

  February 01, 2013

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  learning and identification. Using a complex design of interwoven perspectives, Spurlock creates a dialogic ...

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