31 October 2011

this article is a delight.

CHICAGO — When Deena Cortese was added to the cast of “Jersey Shore” in Season 3, she was nervous that she wouldn’t be welcome, that she wouldn’t be able to forge a place for herself in a group with well-established social dynamics.
For one group of people, at least, Ms. Cortese is no footnote. At the UChicago Conference on Jersey Shore Studies here on Friday, she popped up frequently as a subject of academic discussion, particularly for an episode in which she thwarted the Situation’s attempt to bring home twins by swiping one for herself. In the process she became a trickster figure, upending the show’s heteronormativity and its power dynamics. (via)
read it if you have some time to kill.

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