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  April 18, 2011 to April 22, 2011
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  Strike a (Masculine) Pose: Queering Hip-hop

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  Scott Poulson-Bryant Harvard University

  April 14, 2011

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  performing their boyness for other boys, striking poses, earning points in the competition for realness that ... their finest “straight” boy apparel, trying to pass for butch to win the prize. What is hiphop, ...
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  Ennui is Enough: The Art of Feigned Disaffection

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  Stefan Smith University of Southern California

  April 13, 2011

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  precisely the point. While Lindsay Lohan shoplifts for attention and Charlie Sheen keeps #winning, the ...
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  Re: Hottentot Venus 2.0?: Still Gawking at the Black Woman's Buttocks

  Sure-Fire Wins, Sure-Fire Losses

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  Richard Newton Claremont Graduate University

  Thursday, March 24, 2011 — 2:47 pm

  What do you make of the black actors' complicity in the sketch's performance? Saturday Night Live's comedic golden age was in the 1970s. It seems to me that the  "resurgence" of black characters in today's iteration choose to ...
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  Hottentot Venus 2.0?: Still Gawking at the Black Woman's Buttocks

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  Alfred Martin University of Texas at Austin

  March 23, 2011

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  Hottentot Venus 2.0?: Still Gawking at the Black Woman's Buttocks race and television gender and sexuality black femininity Curator's Note In 19th Century Europe, Sara Baartman, also colloquially known as the Hottentot Venus, was exhibited as a ...
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  Gleaning Alex Haley's Scriptural "Roots"

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  Richard Newton Claremont Graduate University

  March 21, 2011

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  attention of American reading and television audiences. Alex Haley's award-winning work broached the ...
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  Re: Artful Mockers: Brand Parodies Amplified Through Animation

  Brands win

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  Christopher Boulton University of Tampa

  Friday, March 18, 2011 — 3:09 pm

  Gladys, I think Morgan Spurlock's new film may prove you right: http://www.sonyclassics.com/pomwonderfulpresentsthegreatestmovieeversold/ ...
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  Re: Artful Mockers: Brand Parodies Amplified Through Animation

  Fuzzy line between parody and product placement indeed

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  Sam Close DePaul University

  Wednesday, March 16, 2011 — 8:16 am

  When I saw your post title I thought immediately of the Oscar-winning animated short film Logorama ...
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  Artful Mockers: Brand Parodies Amplified Through Animation

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  Gladys Santiago New York University

  March 15, 2011

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  Artful Mockers: Brand Parodies Amplified Through Animation The Simpsons product displacement primetime animation animation Curator's Note I’ve been tracking examples of  product displacement--instances in which brand names and logos are greeked or mo ...
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  In Defense of the Crude: Why Bob's Burgers Beats Out the Rest

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  Lauren Bratslavsky University of Oregon

  March 14, 2011

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  a second job as a cab driver. Some claim that the crude in Bob’s Burgers is not clever, nor earned. And ...

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