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Saturday, August 25, 2007

The Weekly World News Is Alive and Well in Kalamazoo

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The supermarket checkout counter might never be the same. With its August 27th issue, the Weekly World News . the outlandish tabloid that fe...
Friday, August 24, 2007

Vip, mio fratello superuomo (Vip, My Brother Superman)

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It is sad a fact of life that most Americans are not aware of the good, even great, foreign films that have been made since the advent of fi...
Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Cinema Killed the Radio Star: How Elvis Presley's Movies Nearly Ended His Career

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I don't think there can be much argument that Elvis Presley was the biggest music star to emerge in the Fifties. Elvis wasn't exactl...
Tuesday, August 21, 2007

A Change in the Summer Movie Season

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Traditionally the summer movie season ran from Memorial Day to Labour Day. This was the time when Hollywood would release their biggest movi...
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Monday, August 20, 2007

Nothing with a Tree: Madison Avenue's Obsession with Young Urban People

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For the past thirty years or so, Madison Avenue has pursued a demographic of individuals 18 to 49 years of age, preferring those who live in...
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Saturday, August 18, 2007

African Americans in Comic Books Part Four

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Milestone In some respects, in the Nineties the comic book industry had made a good deal of progress with regards to African American char...
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Friday, August 17, 2007

African Americans in Comic Books Part Three

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Blaxploitation In the early Seventies both Marvel Comics and DC Comics had a tendency to follow the latest fads in society. For instance, ...
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