Posts Tagged ‘ race/ethnicity ’

Negotiations and Regressions of Cultural Politics in Disney’s Frozen

March 24, 2014
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Negotiations and Regressions of Cultural Politics in Disney’s Frozen

The politics of Disney's Frozen are indicative of symptomatic shifts within an otherwise largely entrenched ideological core.
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Is Orange the New Television?

October 22, 2013
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Is <i>Orange</i> the New Television?

The success of Netflix's original series Orange is the New Black says something about our culture’s readiness for complex, sexually diverse female characters.
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Enough Said? Beasts of the Southern Wild, SharkNado, and Extreme Weather

July 26, 2013
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Enough Said? Beasts of the Southern Wild, SharkNado, and Extreme Weather

In this short post I’d like to juxtapose an unlikely pair of films in order to push harder at the taken-for-granted mythologies of extreme weather: SharkNado and Beasts of the Southern Wild.
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WWE vs. Glenn Beck: Potshots to Publicity, Controversy to Cash

February 28, 2013
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WWE vs. Glenn Beck: Potshots to Publicity, Controversy to Cash

While the issue is ostensibly about the negative portrayal of the Tea Party, Glenn Beck and WWE have taken advantage of the situation for publicity.
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Django Unchained As Post-Race Product

December 28, 2012
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Django Unchained As Post-Race Product

Django Unchained functions as a product of post-race logic that paradoxically deals with a culturally specific thematic--slavery--while making the central storyline so universal slavery functions as a terribly horrific backdrop for a love story.
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The Real Housewives of (the “New”) Miami

September 18, 2012
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The Real Housewives of (the “New”) Miami

While clearly trading on the legacy of representation that frames Latina/os as “spicy” the RHOM simultaneously constructs a shift towards whiteness in the racialized character of the city itself.
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Adaptation by Remix: Vidding Feminist Science Fiction

June 19, 2012
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Adaptation by Remix: Vidding Feminist Science Fiction

The video “Parable” by Chaila is a fascinating example of what the crossover of fandom and political engagement can achieve.
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Feet First

June 22, 2011
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Feet First

For many in New Orleans there comes a point when we have to answer a difficult question: is living here worth your life or that of your family? Where do you draw the line? What are you willing to risk, to possibly sacrifice, in order to live in such a magical place?
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Tremé: Feels Like Joy and Pain

June 1, 2011
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Tremé: Feels Like Joy and Pain

The challenge facing Tremé (and every other media representation of New Orleans) is finding a way to balance a celebration of the city’s unique cultural contributions with an acknowledgment of its more conventional, and often more damning, histories, memories, and contemporary realities. Week 6’s episode “Feels Like Rain” responds to this challenge, self-consciously,...
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F.ix E.verything M.y A.ss

May 18, 2011
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F.ix  E.verything M.y A.ss

Living here in New Orleans, one of the most striking conundrums about this series is that while its heartbeat lies with the culture of Black inhabitants, it seems their larger lives cannot be the focus –perhaps due to its audience of largely white and affluent viewers.
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The Big Easy Returns to the Small Screen

April 20, 2011
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The Big Easy Returns to the Small Screen

David Simon's Treme returns this Sunday for its second season. Antenna will be following all of the action with a weekly column on the program to be published each Wednesday.
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Compulsory Masculinity on The Jersey Shore

February 26, 2011
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Compulsory Masculinity on <i>The Jersey Shore</i>

The oppression of women is a daily activity for the men of the Jersey Shore, but so is the production of male beauty and labor in the domestic sphere.
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Charlie Chan and Contemporary B-Movie Fandom

January 15, 2011
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Charlie Chan and Contemporary B-Movie Fandom

A controversial new book argues that it’s okay to enjoy Charlie Chan movies.
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Your Friendly Neighborhood Araña: The State of Latinidad in Marvel Comics

November 15, 2010
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Your Friendly Neighborhood Araña: The State of Latinidad in Marvel Comics

Marvel Comics has quietly responded to the increased presence of Latinos in America with a corresponding, if tentative, increase in the number of Latino Marvel characters, as epitomized by this week's debut of a new Spider-Girl series starring Puerto Rican Anya Sofia Corazon.
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Rehabilitating the Investment in Sports Stardom

November 5, 2010
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Rehabilitating the Investment in Sports Stardom

Nike tries to give LeBron James a chance to address his off-season controversy in a new 90-second ad while re-establishing the commodity of sports stardom.
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