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• In Media Res
  Re: Curing Vision

  Implications for us curators?

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  Aaron Dickinson Sachs Saint Mary's College of California

  Wednesday, September 18, 2013 — 10:24 pm

  This is a thought provoking post, Remy, thank you. I wonder what implications your ideas about the politics of curating have for us as the curators of posts on IMR this week. Does that make us all activists? Is curating inherently an activist endeavor, or ...
• In Media Res
  Re: Profile Pictures, T-Shirts, and Visibility Campaigns

  (Self)-Branding

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  Aaron Dickinson Sachs Saint Mary's College of California

  Wednesday, September 18, 2013 — 8:39 pm

  I agree with Dara, this is a great post and a good example of social media based visual activism. Related to Dara's question about self-branding, I'm wondering what the implications are for this campaign around branding within activism more gene ...
• In Media Res
  Re: Symbol, Solidarity, Synecdoche

  A Lot of Question

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  Aaron Dickinson Sachs Saint Mary's College of California

  Monday, September 30, 2013 — 8:34 pm

  Jackie- My apologies for posting a response so late to your curated piece. The raised fist is a great example of visual activism. I agree with your assessment that it is recognizable and clear, yet also malleable enough to be applied in many contexts. I h ...
• In Media Res
  Re: "Normal Barbie" as Digital Visual Activism?

  Feminism...?

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  Aaron Dickinson Sachs Saint Mary's College of California

  Wednesday, September 18, 2013 — 10:57 pm

  Thank you for the post, Dara, and for your response to it, Jackie. I agree that there is an interesting tension between Lamm's rendering of an "average Barbie" as positive portrayal of female beauty and postfeminist discourses used by corpo ...
• In Media Res
  Re: Hip-hopsploitation: Representing 1980s Hip-hop in Wild Style and Beat Street

  Commercialization is definitely key

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  Aaron Dickinson Sachs Saint Mary's College of California

  Thursday, September 6, 2012 — 8:54 pm

  Roger, I couldn't agree with you more on these great points you've made about the commercialization of hip-hop.  In fact, several chapters of my dissertation are devoted to making a similar argument about the early commercialization of hip-hop.  ...
• In Media Res
  Re: Hip-hopsploitation: Representing 1980s Hip-hop in Wild Style and Beat Street

  other hip-hopsploitation films

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  Aaron Dickinson Sachs Saint Mary's College of California

  Thursday, September 6, 2012 — 9:00 pm

  Yes, I think this does apply to the other "hip-hopsploitation" films, which is part of why I lump them together as a genre of exploitation films; they all seem to be working to domesticate hip-hop for mainstream consumption.  I think you're ...
• In Media Res
  Re: Hip-hopsploitation: Representing 1980s Hip-hop in Wild Style and Beat Street

  Thanks

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  Aaron Dickinson Sachs Saint Mary's College of California

  Thursday, September 6, 2012 — 9:08 pm

  Great insight here, thanks for responding.  I'm intrigued by the significance these films have for current hip-hop heads, and what their use of them as a means of authenticating themselves, as you suggest, means given the role that these films played ...
• In Media Res
  Re: Hip-hopsploitation: Representing 1980s Hip-hop in Wild Style and Beat Street

  In short . .

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  Aaron Dickinson Sachs Saint Mary's College of California

  Thursday, September 6, 2012 — 9:18 pm

  In short, to answer your final question, I think that the white consumers and marketers/producers of hip-hop have been a driving force in writing the history of hip-hop as black.  At the same time, I think black rap artists have also been part of writing ...
• In Media Res
  Re: Kung Fu and Cowboys: Hip Hop Cinema in the 1970s?

  Can we apply this more broadly?

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  Aaron Dickinson Sachs Saint Mary's College of California

  Thursday, September 6, 2012 — 7:53 pm

  This is a really interesting post and you make very good points about some of the filmic precursors to hip-hop and hip-hop cinema.  Pointing to the role of Kung-Fu and Black Westerns in laying a foundation for later hip-hop cultural products helps expand ...
• In Media Res
  Re: Bringing Wreck: The Films of Ava Duvernay

  Hip-Hop Cinema vs. Hip-Hop in Cinema?

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  Aaron Dickinson Sachs Saint Mary's College of California

  Tuesday, September 4, 2012 — 11:26 pm

  Thank you for this post and for calling attention to the works of Duvernay.  I'm curious if you see a difference in the relationship that her documentaries versus her feature films have to hip-hop?  The two documentaries you mention seem very clearly ...

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