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Melinda Barlow / University of Colorado Boulder

The Celestial Streetcar
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October 27, 2014 Melinda Barlow / University of Colorado Boulder 24 comments

Melinda Barlow paints a picture of Toronto’s past, present, and future referencing a variety of films and artists to create a visual journey through the city.

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Without Warning
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August 4, 2014 Melinda Barlow / University of Colorado Boulder 25 comments

Melinda Barlow muses on Kansas as depicted in film, art, and literature.

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When Sleepers Wake and Yet Still Dream
Melinda Barlow / University of Colorado at Boulder

July 7, 2014 Melinda Barlow / University of Colorado Boulder 20 comments

Melinda Barlow’s literary and visual essay winds poetically through a variety of interrelated topics ranging from fragile American masculinity (particularly in Western films of the late 20th and early 21st century) to female artists working in Texas.

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Who Was That Masked Woman? Rediscovering the Hidden Mother
Melinda Barlow / University of Colorado at Boulder

October 17, 2011 Melinda Barlow / University of Colorado Boulder 31 comments

Maternal absence is a dynamic signifying presence, a cultural trauma palpable precisely because it comes from something unknown, that seems not to be there.

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10 Nov

Examining South Korea’s rapid economic ascent, Gil-Soo Han reveals how “nouveau-riche nationalism” collides with migrant realities. Centering on the Naju forklift abuse case, he exposes how economic pride and social hierarchy intersect

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Golden M. Owens reinterprets Rosey the Robot as a futuristic Mammy figure, linking domestic servitude, robot etymologies, and animation history to show how racialized labor logics persist beneath the surface of family entertainment.

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Anna Lovatt traces how artists from Mimi Smith to Letícia Parente used television and video to redraw the boundaries between art, media, and everyday life. The column reveals how the “screen age” has transformed drawing

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In his analysis of K-Pop Demon Hunters, Dal Yong Jin challenges theories of “odorless” hybridity, arguing for a politicized model of cultural mixing that keeps local specificity visible while negotiating unequal global media power.

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