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  Authenticity, The Academy, and the Commodification of Activism: How Oscar Acceptance Becomes Political Platform

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  Ryan Castillo University of Denver

  February 27, 2013

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  celebrities.  Since Marlon Brando's 1973 Academy Best Actor win for The Godfather and his controversial ... Sean Penn’s Best Actor win for Milk where he deemed Academy voters “Comi-Homo-loving ... sons-of-guns;" or Hillary Swank's call for "uniting through difference" in her win for the ...
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  Amy Sherman-Palladino: Losing the Battle, Winning the War

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  Karen Petruska University of California, Santa Barbara

  May 06, 2013

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  Amy Sherman-Palladino: Losing the Battle, Winning the War showrunner Sherman-Palladino Gilmore ... signature upon each show and who oversees an award-winning (if not ratings-winning) program. More often than ...
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  Alice Remembers Everything: The Resident Evil Franchise as Film Franchise

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  Carly Kocurek Illinois Institute of Technology

  May 24, 2013

  have earned more than half of this total, with Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010) topping $296 million USD ...
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  Industrial and Institutional Change in Brand Environments

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  Katie McCollough Rutgers University

  June 20, 2013

  just $10 to UNCF, including the impact on earnings, crime savings and health savings” ...
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  Tom Cruise: Out and Proud Scientologist

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  Alice Leppert Ursinus College

  August 14, 2013

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  comments on South Park ’s website, and reinforces the claims that Cruise’s potential earnings (as well as ...
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  Cruise Control: The Battle Over the Celebrity Image

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  Erin Meyers Oakland University

  August 12, 2013

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  has been reliably bankable as an action hero and even earned a measure of critical respect in more ...
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  What can U.S. academia learn from other countries?

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  Laura Horak Carleton University

  August 28, 2013

  current favorite: Ritual community celebration of earning a Ph.D.-- a.k.a. the disputationsfest. I know ...
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  Arrested Development: Fan Culture in the Era of Internet TV and Social Media

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  Ross Slutsky Voice of America

  February 22, 2013

  Netflix in which Arrested Development fans submitted user generated content for a chance to win a walk-on ...
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  Awkward Black Girl’s Success in New Media Highlights Old Racism

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  Nsenga K. Burton, Ph.D. Goucher College

  April 30, 2013

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  Internet sensation. The debut episode of the first season earned more than 250,000 visits during season one ...
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  A Taste for Reality

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  Eva Hageman University of Maryland College Park

  February 28, 2013

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  always at their very worst. I would say more but I think Lena Dunham’s about to win Best Director for Bad ...

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