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<strong>Tricking the Taste Buds: Messages of Deception and Inconvenience in “Healthy” Food</strong><br /><em> Daren C. Brabham / UNC Chapel Hill</em>

Tricking the Taste Buds: Messages of Deception and Inconvenience in “Healthy” Food
Daren C. Brabham / UNC Chapel Hill
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September 10, 2010

Daren Brabham considers parental and societal bad habits of lying to children to make them eat vegetables.

<strong>AIDS, History, and Generation in <em>Brothers & Sisters</em></strong>,<br /><em>Melanie Kohnen / Georgia Institute of Technology</em>

AIDS, History, and Generation in Brothers & Sisters,
Melanie Kohnen / Georgia Institute of Technology

Investigating the representation of gay culture, past and present, on ABC’s Brothers & Sisters.

<strong>“The future, Mr. Gittes. The future”: Next Wave Filmmaking, Part 2* </strong><br /><em> Robert Sickels / Whitman College </em>

“The future, Mr. Gittes. The future”: Next Wave Filmmaking, Part 2*
Robert Sickels / Whitman College

This essay, part 2 of a 2-part series, stems from a chapter on Next Wave filmmaking that will appear in American Film in the Digital Age.

<strong>Betty’s Back? Remembering the Relevance of the Rerun in the Age of Social Media </strong><br /><em> Dan Faltesek / University of Iowa </em>

Betty’s Back? Remembering the Relevance of the Rerun in the Age of Social Media
Dan Faltesek / University of Iowa

Examining the prevalence of the television rerun in light of Betty White’s resurgent popularity and re-energized career.


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