A farewell to Phyllis Diller from a reverent scholar-fan.
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The Face (and Laugh) that Launched a Thousand Bits
A Glee Vid in Memory of Alex Doty
"My love's too big for you my love": an offering for those who admired Alexander Doty and his work (as well as those who enjoy Glee's Kurt Hummel).
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“You Want Me to Be Anderson Cooper”: Negotiating Queer Visibility on Husbands
Beyond the issue of depicting same-sex intimacy, Husbands does not really challenge the current norms of queer visibility.
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Mediating the Past: Sacred History and Sacrilegious Television Comedy
For viewers too young to remember, moments of common historical importance are increasingly being inflected with the flippant attitude of sick humor.
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Pinning Postfeminism
The "pins" on display on Pinterest demonstrate postfeminism in their mixed messages regarding contemporary femininity.
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Making the Past Sparkle
The contemporary remake of the 1976 film works to reshape the ways in which mass mediated blackness is understood.
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Gender and Authorship in Ruby Sparks
Ruby Sparks questions limited and unrealistic representations of women, as well as the familiar tropes of the romantic comedy.
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Little England: The London 2012 Closing Ceremony
If the opening ceremony for the 2012 Olympics was full of sound and fury, the closing ceremony signified nothing.
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Liveness with a Lag: Temporality & Streaming Television [Part 2]
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Devices like Roku that sync existing television sets with the Internet are imperfect technologies.
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In Memorium: Thanking Alexander Doty
I hope through my writing and my teaching, Doty will have many more students in the years to come.
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A Star Was Born: The Inspiring Life and Work of Alexander Doty
Alexander Doty's work has inspired my own as a young academic; he will continue to inform and empower young queer individuals like myself long after his or my time.
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Liveness with a Lag: Temporality & Streaming Television [Part 1]
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I invested in a Roku box to reduce costs by streaming television over the Internet rather than paying for cable. Mission accomplished? Kind of.
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Dear Search Committees,
It’s almost job season again, which means that it’s almost advice season again. Though grad students and job seekers are inundated with advice, search committees need advice too.
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The 2012 Sight & Sound Poll: Don’t Call it a Consensus
Sight and Sound's top ten gets all the press, but beneath it is a much larger, more heterogeneous body of work that reveals larger trends in film and beyond.
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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 Internet, Baseball Analysis, and the Persistence of Dogma
A brief discussion and interview with Baseball Prospectus podcaster Kevin Goldstein on the current state of baseball analysis.
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