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<p></p><p>Mommy, Is That a Boy Text or a Girl Text?</p>

Mommy, Is That a Boy Text or a Girl Text?

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May 18, 2007

by: Jonathan Gray / Fordham University
How do audiences come to understand a text as having a gender, and/or a gendered audience?

<p></p><p>Adieu to <em>The Sopranos</em>; What Next for HBO?

Adieu to The Sopranos; What Next for HBO?

by: Kim Akass and Janet McCabe
Exploring whether the series finale of The Sopranos will be the nail in the coffin for the company that defines itself as not TV, but rather HBO.

<p></p><p>Hutto’s Children: Maddening Structures of Absence</p>

Hutto’s Children: Maddening Structures of Absence

by: Hector Amaya / Southwestern University
YouTube allows unseen detained children the chance to be witnessed, but is anyone watching?

<p></p><p>Everything is Under Control

Everything is Under Control

by: Daniel Chamberlain / USC
Celebrations of viewer control display a marked historical shortsightedness, reveal a familiar deployment of gendered discourse, and raise questions about inequality of access
in a rapidly tiering television environment.


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