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“Go back where you come from!”: Aesthetic identity, “This Land” and “Old Town Road”
Susan McFarlane-Alvarez / Clayton State University

September 16, 2019 Susan McFarlane-Alvarez / Clayton State University One comment

Through a close analysis of Gary Clark Jr.’s “This Land” and Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road,” Susan McFarlane-Alvarez locates important negotiations of what constitutes belonging and country (western).

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#NotMyAriel: Safe Race-Swapping and the Casting of a Black Woman as Fish
Shearon Roberts / Xavier University of Louisiana

September 16, 2019 Shearon Roberts / Xavier University of Louisiana 5 comments

With the casting announcement of Halle Bailey as Ariel in Disney’s live-action adaptation of The Little Mermaid, Shearon Roberts analyzes the recent history of race-swapping in Disney films.

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A Bachelorette F***ing in a Windmill
Matthew H. Brittingham / Emory University

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Looking at the battle between Hannah and Luke on The Bachelorette, Matthew H. Brittingham examines the complicated intersection of faith and sex in American reality television.

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Nomi/No Me?: Race, Gender, and Power in No Time To Die
Lisa Funnell / University of Oklahoma

September 16, 2019 Lisa Funnell / University of Oklahoma 5 comments

Lisa Funnell asserts that the casting of a Black woman as 007 in the next James Bond installment reveals growing anxieties about minorities claiming more institutional and economic power.

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Television is Burning: Revolutionary Queer and Trans Representation on TV
Danielle Seid / Baruch College, CUNY

September 16, 2019 Danielle Seid / Baruch College, CUNY One comment

Danielle Seid offers a close reading of FX’s Pose and the ways it brings revolutionary queer and trans representations to TV.

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Strangers: Using the Small Screen to Expose Mainlandization
Andrew Gilmore / Colorado State University

September 16, 2019 Andrew Gilmore / Colorado State University 2 comments

Andrew Gilmore takes up Amazon’s Strangers to reveal the ways the show addresses the mainlandization of Hong Kong and the rising tide of protests against the CPC’s influence.

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In Toon with the Times: Diversity in American Commercial Animation
Mihaela Mihailova / University of Michigan

September 16, 2019 Mihaela Mihailova / University of Michigan One comment

Mihaela Mihailova brings attention to the diversity problem in animation—both on screen and in the industry—and examines a crop of contemporary programs responding to the call.

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Queer Female Superheroes: DC Comics Bombshells Tell Their Own Story
Christina M. Knopf / SUNY Cortland

September 16, 2019 Christina M. Knopf / SUNY Cortland One comment

Christina M. Knopf examines the industrial trajectory of DC Comics Bombshells, an all-female comic series that uses wartime premises to assert shifting gender roles and sexualities and foreground women in civic life and public spaces.

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In "Welcome to Wrexham and Representations of Management in Football (Soccer) as a Product of the “Media Sports Cultural Complex”" Andrew Stubbs-Lacy explores representation & construction of management in football with a focus on Welcome to Wrexham. Read: http://tinyurl.com/4z7wkuk8

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