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  DMC: Magic for Change

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  Laurel Ahnert Georgia State University

  August 14, 2014

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  DMC: Magic for Change Tanzania minidocs Magicians Magic Kenya Drummond Thomas Money-Coutts documentary DMC Cairo Curator's Note We often think of magicians as flashy and spectacular, even campy (David Copperfield), or as possessing ironic dry wit pok ...
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  Social Magic vs Social Circus vs Self-Promotion

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  Joe Culpepper University of Toronto

  Thursday, August 14, 2014 — 7:22 pm

  arts, I chose to run a quick Google search experiment this morning in response the question posed. The ... Toronto-based charity organization) runs "My Magic Hands," which teaches magic to local at-risk youth. ...
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  Frozen Forbidden Fruit

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  Joe Culpepper University of Toronto

  Friday, August 15, 2014 — 6:40 pm

  forbidden tree. One learns more about its tactile qualities. At the same time, the knowledge gained from ... this first experience is most likely partial. Learning the names of the salep and mastic ingredients ...
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  Post-Feminism & the Dehumanization of Sex Workers in SNL's Moet & Chandon Sketch

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  Raechel Tiffe University of Minnesota

  August 18, 2014

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  industry. In this clip, the audience learns that Strong’s character “did a weird shoot in Mexico. Two of the ... girls disappeared, but I’m alive. Thanks champagne!” We also learn that Brecky was “cut in half for ...
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  Nathan for You and Cable's Contested Masculinities

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  Nick Marx Colorado State University

  August 21, 2014

  City, and Key & Peele have earned much of the attention in Comedy Central’s recent run of standout ...
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  SNL, Sketch Comedy, and Representation

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  Katharine Zakos Oglethorpe University

  August 22, 2014

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  women?), the real question seems to me to be: why is SNL a (white) boys club? As one of the longest running ... of other races and/or genders in its nearly forty-year run; however, to date, SNL has only featured ...
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  Names and Claims: "Shabooya, Roll Call!"

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  Miriam J. Petty Northwestern University

  August 25, 2014

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  Names and Claims: "Shabooya, Roll Call!" intertextuality cultural appropriation African American media Curator's Note In our introduction to an historic In Focus dedicated to African American film and media studies, scholars Beretta Smith-S ...
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  the rules of engagement!

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  Miriam J. Petty Northwestern University

  Wednesday, August 27, 2014 — 5:21 pm

  watching and learning audience, even as the film attempts to capitalize on the krumping dance style ...
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  "The Dirty South" and Other Visual Aesthetics

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  Michele Prettyman Mercer University

  September 01, 2014

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  "The Dirty South" and Other Visual Aesthetics southern hip hop aesthetics race and Southern films Hustle and Flow hip hop and film Curator's Note If the early hip-hop visual archive was characterized by “Wildstyle”—graffiti covered trains, ...
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  Tending the Chonkyfire: Does the South STILL Have Something to Say in Hip Hop?

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  Regina N. Bradley Kennesaw State University

  September 02, 2014

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  run out of memories and experiences that tease out the complexities of what Southernness means today. ...

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