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The Paramaterial Phantasy

The Cheerios and Coca Cola Super Bowl Controversy: Capitalism with a Human [Multicultural] Face

Since the Super Bowl I have been thinking about the Cheerios and Coca Cola commercials that created a torrent of racist Tweets and commentary. The Cheerios commercial featured a beautiful biracial family. The Coca-Cola commercial played “America the Beautiful” in a multiplicity of languages. The Cheerios Super Bowl Ad The Coca Cola Super Bowl Ad […]

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Posted in Politics Tagged Marxism, Super Bowl commercial, progressivism, popular culture

“Let it turn to something else”: Conservative Ideology and the Reshaping of American Masculinity in Red Dawn from 1984 to 2012

Growing up and developing my own sense of identity through the products of popular culture in the Reagan era, I must admit that Red Dawn (1984) played an important role not only in defining the imaginative landscape of my six year old self, but also, I should think, in helping define and in producing my […]

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Posted in Tangents, Film Tagged Reagan, Conservatism, Rambo, remakes, paranoid conservative fringe, cultural studies, masculinity, gender, fatherhood, politics, Communism, Hollywood, Marxism, film, Obama, race, Red Dawn (2012), whiteness, Red Dawn (1984), Cold War, Glenn Beck

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