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Getting Your Bloke On: Gender Issues In The Reality Competition 'I Will Survive', Frank Miller Jan 2013

Getting Your Bloke On: Gender Issues In The Reality Competition 'I Will Survive', Frank Miller

Communication Faculty Publications

The Australian reality competition "I Will Survive" set out to find a cast replacement for the leading role in the Broadway production of "Priscilla, Queen of the Desert." The stage version closed halfway through production the series, forcing a repositioning of the competition as the search to find "Australia's next triple threat." Even when the main prize was a role as a drag queen, however, the series presented a heterocentric approach to gender that treated drag less as a means of personal expression than as a part in a play that just happened to be about two gay men and …


Introduction To "On The Sleeve Of The Visual: Race As Face Value", Alessandra Raengo Jan 2013

Introduction To "On The Sleeve Of The Visual: Race As Face Value", Alessandra Raengo

Communication Faculty Publications

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Reification, Reanimation, And The Money Of The Real, Alessandra Raengo Jan 2012

Reification, Reanimation, And The Money Of The Real, Alessandra Raengo

Communication Faculty Publications

This essay is an exercise in a form of looking from a distance. It is prompted by the desire to explore the connection between two stunning objects, namely, Ken Jacobs’s Capitalism: Slavery (2006), a digital animation of a stereoscopic card picturing slaves at work in a cotton field, and Nick Hooker’s 2008 digital video for Grace Jones’s song Corporate Cannibal. This is not an essay directly about Ken Jacobs and even less about Grace Jones, but rather an attempt to show how, for me, these two works belong to the same set. The set I am thinking about is …


"I Don't Mean To Be Defiant Or Anything...": Instructional Films For Girls, 1945-1960, Jill E. Anderson Phd Jan 2008

"I Don't Mean To Be Defiant Or Anything...": Instructional Films For Girls, 1945-1960, Jill E. Anderson Phd

University Library Faculty Publications

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