Analyzing the role of the Doctor's female companions, Keara Goin argues that despite her independence and brash image, Clara Oswald is little more than the Doctor's caretaker and a re-packaging of the traditional mother archetype.
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The Cultural Lives of Doctor Who: Clara Who?: Re-Imagining the Doctor-Companion Model
The Real Housewives of (“the New”) Miami—Revisited
A few months ago I examined the re-launched Real Housewives of Miami(RHOM) series, part of Bravo’s immensely popular Real Housewives franchise, in another Antenna post. Now that the season has officially ended with the airing of the second part of the cast’s explosive reunion special, I would like to return to this text once...
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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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Rosario Dawson and the Ambiguous Blackness of Latinidad
The film work of actress Rosario Dawson helps media studies scholars address overlooked social discourses concerning Latina/o mixed race subjectivity.
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The Cancellation of GCB and the Continued Discomfort with Televisual Camp
GCB represents ABC's recent attempt to incorporate camp aesthetics into a prime-time commodity, a gamble that ultimately was too risky for the network.
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