Posts Tagged ‘ gender ’

From LGBT to GSM: Gender and Sexual Identity among LeakyCon’s Queer Youth (LeakyCon Portland)

August 6, 2013
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From LGBT to GSM: Gender and Sexual Identity among LeakyCon’s Queer Youth (LeakyCon Portland)

Part 4 of a 7 part series: LeakyCon’s LGBT fandom offers insights into the millennial generation’s attitudes towards current gender/identity categories, but they also express desire for more recognition of the multiplicity and fluidity of their identities as a whole.
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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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Interview: Alan Sepinwall on TV’s Mold-Breaking—Male—Moment

July 12, 2013
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Interview: Alan Sepinwall on TV’s Mold-Breaking—Male—Moment

Part two of an interview with TV critic Alan Sepinwall about his popular history of the past fifteen years of television drama.
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#1ReasonToBe and Many Reasons To Still Worry

April 9, 2013
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#1ReasonToBe and Many Reasons To Still Worry

One of this year's key stories is how the industry deals with difference and inclusivity, both for developers and for the industry as a whole.
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One World, Two Ways In (For Some): Syfy’s Defiance

February 20, 2013
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One World, Two Ways In (For Some): Syfy’s <i>Defiance</i>

While Defiance may seek to expand its focus beyond a primarily male audience, as a broader transmedia initiative it highlights the gendered realities of convergent media practices.
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Booth Babe Backlash

January 17, 2013
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Booth Babe Backlash

A year of misogyny in geek culture resurrected the booth babe debate that has contributed to a backlash against female fandom.
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The Other Dramatic Transformation of NBC’s “Up All Night”

January 1, 2013
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The Other Dramatic Transformation of NBC’s “Up All Night”

It has been a really hard fall for a feminist TV lover. Problems abound with both the character of Julia Braverman-Graham of Parenthood, and Mindy Kaling's character on her new show, The Mindy Project. But nothing–nothing–has exceeded my disappointment more than the transformation of Up All Night.
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Exploring Iyanla Vanzant’s Toolkit for Fix My Life

October 11, 2012
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Exploring Iyanla Vanzant’s Toolkit for <i>Fix My Life</i>

In the second of two posts on the enterprise of black female discipline, how does the enterprise change when a black woman is the disciplinarian?
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Steve Harvey and the Enterprise of Black Female Discipline

October 3, 2012
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Steve Harvey and the Enterprise of Black Female Discipline

While it feels natural to celebrate the advance in African American representation demonstrated by Harvey’s multifaceted empire, the black feminist in me wonders if his large steps forward will mean a step backward for black women in media.
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Reality Gendervision Conference CFP

September 7, 2012
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Reality Gendervision: Sexuality and Gender on Reality TV Conference, on April 26-27, 2013, at Indiana University.
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Mediating the Past: History and Ancestry in NBC’s Who Do You Think You Are?

Mediating the Past: History and Ancestry in NBC’s Who Do You Think You Are?

Some of the most compelling episodes of NBC's Who Do You Think You Are? are those where relatively little information about a celebrity’s ancestors can be found.
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Feminist Media Studies: Previewing Console-ing Passions 2012

Feminist Media Studies: Previewing Console-ing Passions 2012

As befits Console-ing Passions' twentieth anniversary, we are looking forward to using next week's gathering to take a pulse on the field of feminist studies.
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Feminist Media Studies: (In)visible Labor

July 1, 2012
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Feminist Media Studies: (In)visible Labor

Studying representation was my way into media studies. But laborers aren't working from a script and we can't always visualize the lived realities of their work.
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Grimm and the Monstrous Feminine

May 22, 2012
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<i>Grimm</i> and the Monstrous Feminine

Dead women are standard set dressing on most crime dramas, but the more I watched the more I realized the women in Grimm aren’t usually homicide victims – they’re monsters.
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Sporting Goods: Nostalgia, Gender, and Revision in CBS’ “One Shining Moment”

March 21, 2012
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Sporting Goods: Nostalgia, Gender, and Revision in CBS’ “One Shining Moment”

“One Shining Moment’s” recent revisions suggest that the mythic meaning the highlight attaches to the men's tournament is contingent upon the stability of the gendered television viewing experience it constructs.
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