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• Japanese Punk and Italian Noh

  
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  On the plane from Helsinki to Osaka I was sitting next to this Japanese punk guy, Keiji (I initially thought he introduced himself as “Cage” until I saw his FB [...]
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• Review: Seeking Asian Female

  
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  What possesses a dude to agree to be filmed for a documentary about Asian fetishes? Seriously, though. #SAF— Kat Chow (@katchow) May 07, 2013 Last night, American public broadcaster PBS aired Seeking Asian Female, a documentary about an older white … Continue reading →
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• Re-Imagining Stereotypes: The Mandarin

  
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  Warning: Extreme spoilers below! When I heard that Iron Man III was revamping the Mandarin, I expected the worst. The Mandarin, who first appeared in 1964, has traditionally been your standard nefarious evil genius in the style of Fu Manchu. Fu Manchu was the villain from a series of British crime novels written ...
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• Episode 253: Iron Man 3: Bitten by a Radioactive 1980s

  
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  Matthew Belinkie, Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, Jordan Stokes, and Matthew Wrather overthink Iron Man 3 , focusing on the allegorical, philosophical, geopolitical, military, cultural and interpersonal allegories at play in the film. → Download Episode 253 (MP3) Want new episodes of the  Overthinking It Podcast ...
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• Read before you write about LGBT politics in Japan

  
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  Edit (May 2): If you are using Google Translate or a similar service in order to read this, please do not trust the translation. If you think that Tokyo Rainbow Pride is the main topic of this article, that is not true. The main topic is English-language LGBT journalism. Although this isn’t intended to be an ...
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• Gossipy Memo on Morocco, 1958

  
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  Morocco photographed by William Klein for Vogue , June 1958.
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• Orientalism | Sydney ADAMSON

  
  Mavi Boncuk — Authority: 141
  Mavi Boncuk | Sydney ADAMSON (fl.1892 - 1914)  Preying Turkish Women | Femmes Turques en priere | | first quarter of 20th century |Musée dOrsay
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• Table for Two: Kumaré, Or How A Guru Is Born Out Of Orientalism

  
  Racialicious - the intersection of race and pop culture — Authority: 627
  Hosted by Tami Winfrey Harris and Andrea Plaid with featured guest, Sikivu Hutchinson, author of “Moral Combat: Black Atheists, Gender Politics, and the Values Wars” Tami: Kumaré follows a filmmaker, Vikram Gandhi, who transforms himself into a fake guru to explore the concepts of blind religious faith ...
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• The Slow Clap of Astapor: Game of Thrones Season 3 Episode 4 TV Recap

  
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  Peter Fenzel , Shana Mlawski , and Matthew Wrather Matthew Wrather recap Game of Thrones Season 3, Episode 4, “And Now His Watch is Ended,” inevitably getting sucked into a discussion of the series’ politics and ending up talking about why we always get sucked into a discussion of the series’ politics. ...
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• Orientalism, Us, and Islam

  
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  (Photo credit: Wikipedia) One of the most influential publications of the twentieth century was Orientalism [link is to the Wikipedia article on the book] by Palestinian born American scholar Edward Said . The book has been translated into 36 languages and said to have revolutionized Middle Eastern studies in ...
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• Tabsir Redux: Animal House in the 15th Century: Part 1

  
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  One of the most entertaining Arabic compendia on animal life, taken in the loose sense of the term for things that breathe or are thought to breathe, is the Hayât al-Hayawân (Life of Animals) of the Egyptian savant Kamâl al-Dîn Muhammad ibn Mûsâ al-Damîrî . Writing a century before Columbus discovered ...
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• Nuclear Orientalism

  
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  The North Korean bomb may be an uncomfortable fact of life, but so too is the US bomb, notes Barakawi. Once again, the Crazy Emperor of the Hermit Kingdom – North Korea – is threatening nuclear war. Or so the media would have us believe. The BBC and other news outlets have taken to More...
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• Tabsir Redux: Sahara, My, My, but its Dry

  
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  Vaudeville loved Orientalism. By the time Valentino played The Sheik , images of Middle Eastern scenes were well represented on stage and in music. Some of the lyrics from this time period are very clever. My personal favorite is a prohibition song from 1920 called “Sahara, We’ll Soon Be Dry Like You,” sung ...
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