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• In Media Res
  Re: The Music Man Doesn't Get the Girl

  MUSICALS

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  Christina Hanhardt University of Maryland, College Park

  Thursday, August 11, 2011 — 5:16 pm

  One of the things I really like about this post is that it captures two approaches to "Queer Americana"-- it queers an example of "classic" Americana (the marching band) at the same time that it is an example of "queer" (or, ...
• In Media Res
  Re: Gay Main Street

  POWER AND RESISTANCE

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  Christina Hanhardt University of Maryland, College Park

  Wednesday, August 10, 2011 — 10:41 pm

  Thanks, Elizabeth, for your response.  Indeed, Florida's proposals are exactly what I had in mind, especially since, as you suggest here, he also names "diversity" as a draw factor for high-tech industries even as he notes that "the di ...
• In Media Res
  Re: Intimate Relationships: Exploring the Real and Reel Dynamics of Americana

  norms

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  Christina Hanhardt University of Maryland, College Park

  Monday, August 8, 2011 — 10:22 pm

  Thanks for this post.  Your final comments about heteronormativity and the interdependence of ideas about relationships and Americana made me instantly think of the classic Grant Wood image, American Gothic. American Gothic has been repeatedly parodied, y ...
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  Re: Steers and Queers: The Southern Gothic in Jonathan Caouette’s "Tarnation" (2003)

  The Place of the South

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  Christina Hanhardt University of Maryland, College Park

  Tuesday, August 9, 2011 — 7:50 pm

  I only saw an early cut of  Tarnation  years ago, so my memory is thin.  But I really enjoyed and was struck by the combination of two key things that you note in your post: one, that Caouette's childhood was in the suburbs and two, how Southernness ...