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, UK : Palgrave Macmillan . 10.1057/9780230316652 Fassin , Eric . 2010 . “ National Identities and Transnational Intimacies: Sexual Democracy and Politics of Immigration in Europe .” Public Culture 22 ( 3 ): 507 – 529 . doi: 10

This article explores how two Franco-Moroccan films have used their transformative potential and diversity to challenge notions of fixed sexual identities and lift the veil on representations of nonnormative Arab sexualities. Abdellah Taïa

being “an identity without dynamism” ( Gordon 2000: 88 ). In the eyes of many, they cannot (or should not) be parents or educators, advocate political positions, or do anything that would incorporate them into mainstream society. They are often the

deal of critical media scholarship focused on race has explored constructions of minority racial groups in media, research has increasingly emphasized the importance of interrogating “whiteness” as a racial identity to understanding media texts and the

unless some clarity can be achieved with regard to what is to count as ecological filmmaking. The term ecological filmmaker suggests a virtuous identity of sorts, one that filmmaker Knut Erik Jensen is eager to embrace, but what exactly does the preferred

reason that blockbuster film narratives indeed play a significant role in shaping people’s identities and worldview—even more salient in the construction of identity than other means of social norming. One of those strong-effects perspectives is

we can draw between dissonance in one’s self-identity and in one’s apprehension of an external world, although the two are closely related, especially as we will often gravitate toward beliefs about the world which advantage the self. We can then

symbolic, because the mapping between form and meaning is not arbitrary. Alternatively, the opening bars of a national anthem, while bearing no structural similarity to the country they represent, come to acquire a symbolic association. As with intramusical

, threaten male competence and identity. As such, in addition to documenting and affirming heteropatriarchal power relations between men and women, external ejaculation can also undermine masculine control. The desire for documentary proof of the realness