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Stumpage Reports
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Friday, February 07, 2003 :::
Friday Night Pop Quiz
Actual, real articles from the scholarly, peer- reviewed Journal of Popular Culture,
OR
Complete bullshit I sat here and made up. Answers below.
1) Staking Her Claim: Buffy the Vampire Slayer as Transgressive Woman Warrior
2) Gender Conflict and Coercion on A & E's An Evening at the Improv
3) The Virgin and the Whore: Images of Women and Intra-Gender Politics in WKRP in Cincinnatti
4) "Is This Going to be Another Bug-hunt?": S-F Tradition Versus Biology-as-Destiny in James Cameron's Aliens
5) Born in East L.A.: Cheech as the Chicano Moses
6) "Yo! She-bitch! Let's Go!" : Sam Raimi's Evil Dead Films as Feminist Manifesto
7) The Passion of St. Anthony: Hannibal Lechter as Christ Figure and the Transformation of Cannibalisitic Myth
8) Frankenstein As Founding Myth in Gary Larson's The Far Side
9) The Professor and Mary Ann: Male and Female Eunuchs in 1960s Television Comedy
10) Where No One Knows Your Name: Cheers as Existential Nightmare
Answers:
Real: 1, 2, 4, 5, 8
Fake: 3, 6, 7, 9, 10
Quote of the Day:
Like one that on a lonesome road
Doth walk in fear and dread,
And having once turned round walks on,
And turns no more his head;
Because he knows a frightful fiend
Doth close behind him tread.
--- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
::: posted by tom at 9:29 PM
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