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In Praise of the Artifice in George Cukor's 'Sylvia Scarlett'
George Cukor's gender-bending Sylvia Scarlett proposes a heroine who learns nothing from her cross-gendered ordeal.
19 Oct 2020
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Does Cao Fei's Art of Chinese Industrialization and Globalization Work in a Time of Censorship?
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Judgment Day!: Social Protest and Censorship in EC Comics
Scholar Qiana Whitted's EC Comics: Race, Shock & Social Protest explores a different path in EC Comic's history: their work with social justice stories and the resulting censorship in 1950s America.
12 Jul 2019
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On Life in Graphic Detail
Autobiographical Comics, the second volume in the Bloomsbury Comics Studies series successfully bridges the gap between academic studies and popular books that delight comics fans.
19 Feb 2018
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Haven't You Learned How to Take a Joke? The Comedy-on-Campus Debates
The college comedy deficit means that we are neither taught how to take a joke nor how to interpret one.
08 Feb 2018
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Every F***ing Thing You Need to Know About Profanity
Why "jeepers creepers" should be more profane than any word you (still) can't say on television, why it isn't, and why that matters.
10 Oct 2016
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Black Mass Murder: Extreme Metal and the PMRC
A mainstream metal band like The Black Dahlia Murder is more explicit than anything the Parents Music Resource Center sought to regulate in 1985.
29 Oct 2015
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Can I Say That? Stand-Up Comedy in the Age of Political Correctness
For all the alarmist propaganda about political correctness in the US, insensitive speech is still protected by the First Amendment. The complaints about PC are BS.
14 Jun 2015
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The New Puritanism, or, Some Troubling Tendencies in Video Game Criticism
Is the role of the video game critic to protect us from that which we may find offensive?
22 Apr 2014
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Monty Python vs. the Religious Right
The Life of Brian tells us much about a period when disparate cultural values were battled over in a dramatic tug-of-war on the frontlines of society -- and for Monty Python, the threat of prison loomed.
13 Jan 2014
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Attack of the 50-Foot Women! From Nancy Archer to Rep. Lisa Brown
How a classic B-movie poster speaks to the contemporary "War on Women".
29 Jul 2012
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They Won't Stay Dead: The Changing Guises of Horror Film and Censorship
The controversy surrounding A Serbian Film is symptomatic of an ominous development in the horror genre's combative relationship with the censors.
27 May 2011
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'The Picture of Dorian Gray': An Uncensored Version of a Scandalous Classic
"Why is it, Dorian, that a man like the Duke of Berwick leaves the room of a club when you enter it?" Now we know.
30 Mar 2011
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Missouri Might Ban Another Book?
Celebrate Banned Books Week by speaking out: tell Wesley Scroggins that Laurie Halse Anderson's 'Speak' is not pornography.
22 Sep 2010
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Analyzing State of Massachusetts House Bill 1423
What would the so-called Massachusetts "Games-as-Porn" bill really mean?
18 Mar 2008
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The Gangster Film Reader by Alain Silver and James Ursini [Eds]
In an age when gangsters have given way to gangstas, it's refreshing to find a book that takes the older breed seriously.
David Sterritt
24 Jul 2007
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