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  Dance, Girl, Dance!: Performance & Class Mobility in Disney’s Shake It Up

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  Morgan Blue The University of Texas at Austin

  September 11, 2012

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  roll around in a shower of their hard-earned dollar bills). The pilot's foregrounding of ...
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  "This is an unstable environment”: Teen Mom 2 and Class

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  Chelsea Bullock Georgia Institute of Technology

  November 16, 2012

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  and Chelsea’s attempt to earn her GED. Teen Mom 2  is anti-aspirational television. The show makes the ...
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  Class Struggle at the Wonder Wharf: Bob's Burgers' Working Class World

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  Charlotte Howell University of Texas at Austin

  June 08, 2015

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  Burgers has earned over its five seasons has centered on its positivity. Unlike many other animated ...
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  Can TV See Class? Or How I learned to Stop Worrying and Believe in the American Dream

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  Robert Cannon California State University, Los Angeles

  September 23, 2011

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  thrusted out of the lower class with their lottery win.  When that happens, I vote that we all write in to ...
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  Andy Samberg’s D-ck in a Book?: The Highs and Lows of Marketing Literature on the Internet

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  Hollis Griffin Denison University

  August 07, 2007

  authors like Candace Bushnell, Plum Sykes, and, yes, Holly Peterson have earned their literary stripes by ...