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Category: 12.02

Dudes Come Clean: Negotiating a Space for Men in Household Cleaner Commercials
Caroline Leader / FLOW Staff

June 18, 2010 Caroline Leader 12 comments

Do male protagonists in household cleaner TV commercials reinforce or challenge the dominant ideology of the female as the traditional homemaker?

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“Fight for the Futures We Want”: FlashForward, Temporality and Queer Possibilities
Melanie Kohnen / Georgia Institute of Technology

June 18, 2010 Melanie E.S. Kohnen / Georgia Institute of Technology 2 comments

FlashForward breaks with the linearity of straight time to offer moments of unknowability that challenge the script of life, presenting an opportunity to think about multiple ways of interpreting the place of non-straight representations in ideas of the future.

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Bend it Like Shuster: Broadcasting Curling’s Accessibility
Daren C. Brabham / University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

June 18, 2010 Daren C. Brabham / University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 2 comments

Daren Brabham investigates the strange appeal of curling to American spectators.

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Lost at the Movies
Robert C. Sickels / Whitman College

June 18, 2010 Robert C. Sickels / Whitman College 4 comments

An exploration of the intertextual references underscoring the narrative of ABC’s Lost.

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Pedaling through the Transnational Public Screen
Esteban del Rio / University of San Diego

June 18, 2010 Esteban del Río / University of San Diego 11 comments

Cyclists have taken to the Internet to spread their message: the bicycle can stand as part of the solution to a whole range of problems, including climate change, obesity, traffic, pollution, depression, petrol politics, and even oil spills.

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