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Natasha Lyonne Stars in Columbo-esque Mystery-of-the-Week "Poker Face" — BUST Revie
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(TV)
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... Face takes the quintessential detective show formula and spins it around a bit. It’s fresh, entertaining, and takes a genre usually filled with outlandish, over the top caricatures and tropes and swaps ...
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Created on 24 January 2023
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8 Best Horror Movies of 2022 Featuring Women to Watch (or Rewatch) at Your Next Movie Night
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(Movies)
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... “Oftentimes in period pieces we’re boiled down to a hyperspiritualized figure or this violent savage caricature…It affects you when you hardly ever see anybody who looks like you or represents you.”
Prey’s ...
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Created on 16 December 2022
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Scared With Her, Not for Her: Keke Palmer Shines in "Nope
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(Movies)
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... Black male” trope or the “brute caricature” as exemplified in formative popular films such as The Color Purple (1985) and What’s Love Got to do With It (1993) that feature Black males as abusers.
Whether ...
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Created on 04 August 2022
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Matt Gaetz Continues to Prove He’s The Biggest Jerk In Congress; Calls Abortion Activists Fat and Ugly
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(Feminism)
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Republican representative Matt Gaetz’s schoolyard taunts to abortion activists have—almost poetically—blown up in his face, thanks to the clever organizing skills of teen activist Olivia Julianna. ...
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Created on 28 July 2022
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“Reclaiming Amy”: Her Story of Stardom is More Complicated Than it Seems
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(TV)
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... Amy,” counters this with a personal, touching and unsensational story. Amy’s mother, Janis narrates the documentary, and expresses her fear of losing her daughter’s memory to the ‘caricature’ that “Amy” ...
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Created on 05 August 2021
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You Can Enjoy the Kitschy Glamour of Tiki Cocktail Culture without the Gnarly Colonial Aftertaste
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(Eat Me)
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... and caricatures of people from Pasifika cultures. “If I’m escaping to paradise,” Tom says in the video, “I don’t want it to be at the expense of somebody else—particularly if it’s somebody…whose whole ...
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Created on 26 May 2021
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Jennifer Mack-Watkins's Newest Exhibit is An Ode to the Beauty of Black Yout
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(Arts)
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... around an African-American schoolgirl who was told to "recite a white-written poem while holding a caricatured Black doll…," and thus decided to use doll-imagery as the basis for her central theme. Such ...
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Created on 08 April 2021
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You Didn't See SNL's Best Dan Levy Sketch, Lampooning Toxic Masculinity, Because It Was Cut for Time. So Watch It No
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(TV)
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... products. The sketch caricatures the almost comical ways in which male-targeted products from deodorant to dietary supplements are marketed, which often oversimplify and homogenize the male population ...
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Created on 15 February 2021
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"This Close To Okay" Zooms In On A Romance Interwoven With The Realities of Mental Illnes
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(Books)
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... and outright caricatures, Cross-Smith skillfully weaves a story that you can’t put down. Grab your chunkiest knit sweater and dive into this comfy and convoluted mystery. –Brianne Kane
This Close to ...
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Created on 11 February 2021
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10.
Drop What You're Doing And Watch "Adventure Time: Obsidia
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(TV)
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The magic of animated shows like Adventure Time is that they always find a way to deal with adult themes. Adventure Time: Distant Lands - Obsidian, an hour-long special based on the Cartoon Network ...
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Created on 03 December 2020
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How One Woman Changed The Video Game World Forever
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(Entertainment)
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... design dwell on the childlike compositions and stick-figure caricatures she brought to the screen. But beneath the bits and bytes is the unlikely heroine of a growing feminist movement in tech, an unexpectedly ...
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Created on 09 October 2020
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Washington's Football Team Is (FINALLY) Changing Its Name and Log
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(Entertainment)
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... the most popular sports mascots first animals, and then indigenous people? Also, why there are so many sports teams around the world that use indigenous people as caricature mascots and use indigenous ...
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Created on 13 July 2020
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Less Manipulation, More Representation: Popular TV Shows Pull Episodes with Offensive Caricatures
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(Feminism)
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Following many other shows, Hulu pulled an episode of Golden Girls for referencing blackface. In the episode, Dorothy was introduced to her son's fiancée, an older black woman. Blanche and Rose donned ...
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Created on 29 June 2020
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How I Went From Loving to Hating Cards Against Humanity
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(Feminism)
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... fun and ironic, and I just needed to have more of a sense of humor about his fun ironic ways. Instead of confronting John, my ex allowed me to become a running joke, a caricature of myself, a politically ...
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Created on 25 June 2020
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Why Getting Rid Of The Aunt Jemima Brand Isn't Enoug
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(Eat Me)
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Amidst the protests responding to the murder of George Floyd, a Black man killed by a white police officer in Minneapolis, corporations are reckoning with the racist histories and caricatures rooted ...
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Created on 22 June 2020
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17 Feel Good Shows You Can Stream To Feel Less Socially Isolated
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(TV)
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... each other as the show goes on. Portlandia follows Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein’s hipster Portland-caricature selves as they go about life in, you guessed it, Portland. It’s off-beat, definitely ...
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Created on 19 March 2020
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Rosabel Rosalind Kurth-Sofer Is Fighting Jewish Stereotypes With Art
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(Arts)
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... images she was studying. She “showed them pictures of the Jew as pigs, the Jew hoarding money,” and other anti-Semitic political caricatures, and would ask them, “can you see that this has been constructed ...
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Created on 13 December 2019
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What Kristen Stewart's Latest Interview Can Teach Us About Sexuality, Careers, and Growing U
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(Movies)
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Kristen Stewart, a figure often made into a caricature or an impression to the public, is now opening up about the constraints put on her career and sexuality by the public. Most notably in her latest ...
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Created on 04 September 2019
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Britney Young of Netflix's "GLOW" Talks Authentic Storytelling, Rising Above Typecasting, and Season ...
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(TV)
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... Bell and Junkchain. I think there’s a lot of interesting play happening with those caricatures, breaking them down. Would you agree? Is that something that drew you to this script?
I think you’re definitely ...
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Created on 13 August 2019
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20.
The Real Story Behind "The Favourite
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(Movies)
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... up quite so easily. She used several underside tactics to try and discredit Abigail. She even helped send anonymous letters and caricatures attacking Abigail’s character, "warning" the Queen of who she ...
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Created on 08 February 2019