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Tag archive for ‘Girls’

<p></p><p><em>Playboy</em> Feminism? Hugh Hefner and <em>The Girls Next Door</em>

Playboy Feminism? Hugh Hefner and The Girls Next Door

by: Moya Luckett / New York University
The Girls Next Door plays with significant ideological contradictions as it tries to address the prevailing popularity of the Playboy bunny image with a new generation of women while trying to remove any taint of sexual exploitation from its girls.

<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.

Super Freaks

by: Heather Hendershot / Queens College
Whatever TV lacks in form it sometimes makes up for in content. TV may not look good, but it feels good.

<p></p><p>Diary of a Political Tourist

Diary of a Political Tourist

by: Anna McCarthy / New York University
Must political documentaries always return to shopworn chiches?