Category Archives: Kasia

Elvis the new Harold?

While I chose to focus on the women in Mexican soap operas, I neglected to inform you of the one character that actually brought me to Destilando Amor. That character’s name on the series was called “Elvis Perez III.” He … Continue reading

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The “Doña Pilars” and “Marichuys” of the Novela World

One of the major questions maybe: why did I choose these two soap operas? For many telenovela followers they might question why I did not choose the most popular and recognizable “Ugly Betty” or as it’s original followers know it … Continue reading

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What did they look like? What was I watching?

As I briefly mentioned in class I became interested in this topic my junior year of high school when I was a part of the AP Spanish Literature course offered at my school. Toward the middle of the year we … Continue reading

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Cultural Hybridization

Bhabha states in “Questions of Cultural Identity”  (pg 54) “This ‘part’ culture, This partial culture, is the contaminated yet connective tissue between cultures- at once the impossibility of culture’s containedness and the boundary between. It is indeed something like culture’s ‘in-between’, baffling … Continue reading

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The Peculiar Kind.

Our discussion for this week centered on the LGBTQ community in the media through the eyes of urban New York city residents. We chose to examine the different themes that we often find arising in these representations. First, A video … Continue reading

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It’s Like My Face Just Morphed

“When you come out to people as bisexual they think you’re just…” Pipe started,  “GREEDY.” Kim said automatically. I, Kasia, had to do a double take to this statement. I never heard that before, and I especially had never thought … Continue reading

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I Only Want You to Give it to Me

In class this week we briefly Kim spoke about gender assigned toys, which brought us to the “Toys” portion of Rowland Barthes’ Mythologies. In light of the minor “throwback” here is “an oldie but goody”: Myths can be seen as … Continue reading

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The Korean Punk :Recycled Culture Turned New

Through out our life time we have experienced or have gone through different phases of music styles and how we relate to the beats we listen to. For some teens in Korea the growing popularity of punk has been a phase … Continue reading

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Recycling Modernity: “You Can Have Whatever You Like”

[youtube fjcnD9lX4dM nolink] The next time you’re walking down China Town, picture this…  The vendors coming up to you, whispering these  T.I lines to you, “you can have whatever you like, I said you can have whatever you like”  “Baby, … Continue reading

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City Kid Struggles: The Reflection and Reproduction of Base and Superstructure with in the ‘Slums’ of NYC

Our Cafe Discussion this week consisted of our perspectives of Raymon Williams “Base and Superstructure in Marxist Cultural Theory.” From our understanding superstructure of a society, the sources of legitimacy of our Ideologies through means of social convention is reflected and … Continue reading

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