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When Orientalist Fear Meets Post-Colonial Incongruity: The Veil Simplified through Stand-Up

December 14, 2020 Leave a Comment

Lamiae Aidi In this way, female stand-up comedians redefine the image of the veil, by offering other interpretations of the stereotype through a postcolonial humor of incongruity.

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The Body of Fried Chicken and the Blood of Bud Light: Religion Around the Tailgate Table

October 01, 2018 1 Comment

Madison Tarleton The relationship that the tailgating participants have not only with one another but with the event itself allows them to create a countered “sacred space” to the mundane routines of work and daily life.

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Disney’s Christopher Robin and the Idolatry of Work

August 23, 2018 Leave a Comment

Daniel Anderson Tragically, Christopher Robin’s life seemingly proves Adorno’s adage that a “wrong life cannot be lived rightly.”

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The Ghost of Roy Orbison Goes on Tour

August 23, 2018 Leave a Comment

Peter Lehman He seemed to be defined by an absence, which then materialized as a dark, quiet persona who always kept his eyes covered in public, inviting people to project their thoughts, fears and melancholy onto him.

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A Long Strange Trip: Exploring How Yoga-Narasimha Landed on the Grateful Dead’s First Album Cover

July 30, 2018 4 Comments

Deepak Sarma He did suggest that I try to interview living members of the band but, alas, I am still pursuing that unreachable lead.

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Love and Monsters: Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape of Water and its Horror Influences

February 28, 2018 Leave a Comment

Amy S. Li While the personalities and embodiments of these fantastical monsters vary from film to film, what ties them together is del Toro’s understanding of their potential to instill fear, but more importantly, to inspire love and empathy amongst humans.

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From Job to Kevin: Scripture and Scripturalists in the Leftovers

February 07, 2018 Leave a Comment

Jill Marshall People do things with texts, in fictional worlds and in the real world.

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Humor is Not Just Entertainment: 7 Questions for David Feltmate

November 17, 2017 Leave a Comment

David Feltmate Popular culture scholarship is actually quite difficult, but people seem to think it is easy. It is not enough to just watch TV or listen to music, you really have to dig into the significance of the material and its social importance.

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7 Questions for André M. Carrington

February 10, 2017 Leave a Comment

André Carrington Ritual, pilgrimage, and ecstasy are not only metaphors when it comes to people’s devotion to cultural texts—these terms are really useful in theories of the practice of making genre traditions.

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Maybe It’s Colbert’s Fault

December 16, 2016 1 Comment

Stephanie Brehm Supporters claim Trump does not mean everything he said on the campaign trail; that he will not do half of the abhorrent things he spewed. But do they believe that in part because our comedians, the funny, ironic truth-tellers were for so long invested in perpetuating truthiness?

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