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Tag archive for ‘Sexuality’

<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>Children Playing in Hollywood

Children Playing in Hollywood

by: Judith Halberstam / University of Southern California
Let’s see how Little Children manages to sneak normativity into the plot as resolution for the problem of the community enforcement of …normativity!

<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?

<p></p><p>Trauma Time: Family, Community and Criminality in <em>Close to Home</em>

Trauma Time: Family, Community and Criminality in Close to Home

by: Diane Negra / University of East Anglia
How CBS’ Close to Home redefines motherhood, community and family values.

<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.