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GLEE as Integrated Musical (Finally!)

October 7, 2010by Amanda Ann Klein 3 Comments

If you read this blog with any regularity (and shame on you if you don’t), then you know that Glee is a show that drives me to distraction. I love […]

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Darby and Damon with their mother Jessica, on HUNG

My TV Pet Peeves

July 2, 2010by Amanda Ann Klein 22 Comments

I can’t believe it’s been a month since my last post. Please forgive me, readers, and blame my pet humans instead. Both of these humans will be in some form […]

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The cast performs "Loser

Glee: The Good, The Bad and The Funky

June 2, 2010by Amanda Ann Klein 3 Comments

When I was first introduced to Glee last spring, it was love at first sight. The premiere did all the right things: it was funny, irreverent, quirky and, most importantly, […]

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Judy readies for her close up.

How GLEE Taught my Students to Stop Worrying and Love the Musical

October 29, 2009by Amanda Ann Klein 10 Comments

This week in Introduction to Film was musical week — my favorite week. I adore musicals because they are designed to be loved. As Jane Feuer has argued, musicals, particularly […]

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UPDATE on “Is GLEE Racist/Heterosexist/Ableist?”

September 26, 2009by Amanda Ann Klein 24 Comments

Have the writers for Glee been reading this blog? No, of course they haven’t. But I was still very pleased to see that Tina (Jenna Ushkowitz) got her big solo […]

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Glee's multiracial, multiethnic, multisexual cast

Is GLEE Racist/Heterosexist/Ableist?

September 16, 2009by Amanda Ann Klein 29 Comments

Only three episodes have aired but I am already a huge fan of Glee. Hell, I was a huge fan 5 minutes into its premiere last spring. My enthusiasm for […]

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  • "Ironic Muppets and Horny Houseplants: Sesame Street’s Dual Address"
  • "Judges of Character"
  • "Postmodern Marketing, Generation Y and the Multiplatform Viewing Experience of MTV’s The Hills"
  • "Talking About Rape Jokes (Again)"
  • "The Return"
  • "The Truth You Say?: The End of The Wire"
  • "Turning Twitter into Work: Digital Reporting at SCMS 2013"
  • Antenna
  • BET’s Baldwin Hills: Injecting Race and Class into the Projective Drama
  • Bike with a Sweater
  • Category D
  • Celebrity Gossip, Academic Style
  • Dear Black Woman
  • Defamer
  • Devan Being Manny
  • Dis/Embody
  • Dr. Television
  • Feminist Music Geek
  • Film Studies for Free
  • Flow TV
  • Frames: media inside and outside the box
  • Frockstyle
  • Glee as Integrated Musical (Finally!)
  • Glee Club: What a Journey
  • Glee: The Good, The Bad and The Funky
  • Jamais Vu
  • Jump Cut
  • Just TV
  • Ludic Despair
  • Luimbe.com
  • Media Industries (and offer stuff)
  • Monsters of Television
  • My faculty profile page
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  • News for TV Majors
  • Pop Academy
  • Pop Cultured Prof
  • Pop Matters
  • Pop Thought
  • Resonance
  • Sergio Leone and the Infield Fly Rule
  • songs about buildings and food
  • Sordid Blog
  • Spout Blog
  • Swigzine Blog
  • Televising New Orleans in 2010…or Why Sonny isn’t Watching The Real World: New Orleans
  • The Chutry Experiment
  • The D2D Release: Notes on a Burgeoning Market
  • The Extratextuals
  • The film studies program at East Carolina University
  • The Lesser Feat
  • The New Reality of The Hills
  • The Street Where I Used to Live
  • These Commercials
  • These Talking Babies
  • This TV Show
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  • Welfare Queen Redux: Teen Mom, Class and the Bad Mother
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