"Serving" American orientalism: Negotiating identities in The Courtship of Eddie's Father

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'The Courtship of Eddie's Father', a TV program aired during the 1960s period, prompts questions about domestic roles, racial otherness and difference, interracial relationships, and ideals about the American family. It demonstrates how racial meaning and identity are subject to discursive struggle, even when this struggle is contained generically and ideologically.

Television Broadcasting, Television broadcasting stations, Services information, Services, Television broadcasting industry, ABC Inc. (Burbank, California), The Courtship of Eddie's Father (Television program)

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A mixed bag: negotiating claims in MTV's The Real World

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A television program, 'The Real World' which blends and blurs traditional boundaries, poses predictable questions with respect to its authority. The sources such as Internet discussion groups, newspaper columns, news magazines articles treat the program as an authentic account of the material world.

The Real World (Television program)

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Mystery Science Theater 3000, media consciousness, and the postmodern allegory of the captive audience

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The article analyzes reasons for the dwindling popularity of the 1980s television show "Mystery Science Theater 3000" and its struggle to queer television's control over media consciousness in the postmodern era.

Cable Television Systems, Cable Networks, Cable and other pay TV services, Analysis, History, Cable television, Cable television/data services, Postmodernism, Allegory, American culture, Viewpoint essay, Mystery Science Theater 3000 (Television program)

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