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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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  Re: Major League Brouhaha: Boosting ratings with bad blood?

  Can "baseball" win on its own?

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  Nicholas David Bowman West Virginia University

  Saturday, October 29, 2011 — 2:43 pm

   Short on my own comments after screaming in live attendance at last nights World Series, I encourage all of you to read Tom Verducci's comments on the 2011 Series here. He completely renders my arguments false and, as a baseball fan, I could not be ...
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  Baseball *Is* All It’s Quacked Up To Be

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  Doug Battema Western New England University

  February 27, 2008

  14 comments

  Baseball *Is* All It’s Quacked Up To Be 1950s amateurs Baseball branding discourse documentaries fandom Ken Burns Madiso Mallards marketing pro-am promos regionalism sports Curator's Note Inning Seven of Ken Burns’ “Baseball” argues that major socioe ...
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  Flying Classrooms in the Midwest: The MPATI’s Experiment in Regional Educational Television

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  Allison Perlman University of California-Irvine

  February 28, 2008

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  Flying Classrooms in the Midwest: The MPATI’s Experiment in Regional Educational Television regional media Midwest Program on Airborne Television Instruction history failure educational TV distribution airplanes 1960s 1950s Curator's Note The Midwest ...
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  Zoned for Interest (Notes With and Around Serge Daney)

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  Jordan Chrietzberg Georgia State University

  March 22, 2024

  interesting aspect, the award-winning sound design proves little more than the ‘aural’ complement to Serge ...
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  Politics Is Funny, But Nothing To Laugh At: The Daily Show And Its Limits

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  Sudeep Sharma UCLA

  August 22, 2012

  12 comments

  Politics Is Funny, But Nothing To Laugh At: The Daily Show And Its Limits Politics as Entertainment politics Occupy news media criticism journalism Jon Stewart Daily Show Curator's Note Going beyond humor, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart creates a cl ...
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  Using Critical Media Literacy to Empower Inclusive and Active Voices in Daily Civic Life

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  Paul Mihailidis Emerson College

  April 15, 2013

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  Using Critical Media Literacy to Empower Inclusive and Active Voices in Daily Civic Life Media Literacy critical media literacy civic engagement citizenship Curator's Note In 2008, scholar Lance W. Bennett posited a new dichotomy for thinking about c ...
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  Celebrity chefs: Do we need them?

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  Signe Rousseau University of Cape Town

  June 26, 2013

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  Celebrity chefs: Do we need them? Jamie Oliver food TV food media celebrity chefs Curator's Note The final question put to Jamie Oliver in this clip- ‘What makes you uniquely qualified to advise us here?’- is a simple but important one. It remains un ...
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  Introduction to Special Issue on Audiovisual Criticism

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  Jane M. Gaines Columbia University

  January 15, 2025

  seem that the individual human artist or singular intellectual wins out—but over what? Consider two ...

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