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Tag archive for ‘Gender’

<strong>Orientalized Masculinities in Contemporary Australian Cinema</strong><br /><em> Jane Park / The University of Sydney </em>

Orientalized Masculinities in Contemporary Australian Cinema
Jane Park / The University of Sydney

An investigation of Asian masculinities in Little Fish and Japanese Story.

<p></p><p>Sometimes a kiss is just a kiss: (not) responding to the Richard Gere-Shipla Shetty controversy in India

Sometimes a kiss is just a kiss: (not) responding to the Richard Gere-Shipla Shetty controversy in India

by: Shanti Kumar / University of Texas-Austin
The Indian majority’s non-response to the Gere-Shetty kiss indicates reinforces the notion that diverse cultures in India have known how to live with each other for centuries

<p></p><p>Queering Justin

Queering Justin

by: Hector Amaya / Southwestern University
How does the Justin character on Ugly Betty factor into and complicate debates about queer representations on television?

“Big Man on Campus Ladies”

by: Walter Metz / Montana State University
Metz discusses the Oxygen TV show Campus Ladies and the so-called outrageous collegiate lives, the politicization of academia and the “vitriol reserved at this moment of American culture for professors.”

<p></p><p>Comedy is a Woman in Trouble

Comedy is a Woman in Trouble

by: Heather Hendershot / Queens College
Questioning Comedy Central’s fixation on the male audience.

<p></p><p>When I Grow Up I Want to Be a Boy: <em>Transgeneration</em>’s Meditation on the “Real”

When I Grow Up I Want to Be a Boy: Transgeneration’s Meditation on the “Real”

by: Shana Agid / Sarah Lawrence College
Thoughts on Transgeneration and TV’s quest to create a viable “normal” transgender person.