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Put ‘Pony’ on the stereo and get your dollar bills out, because it’s time to talk about Magic Mike XXL. We’re discussing the Hero’s Journey, subversion, gaze and visual pleasure, and the relationship between art and work. Seriously.
Some Sources You Might Find Interesting:
Magic Mike XXL Is Basically “The Odyssey,” But With Butts by Helena Fitzgerald
Magic Mike XXL’s Perfectly Sculpted Gay Pandering by J. Bryan Lowder
Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema by Laura Mulvey
GROWN WOMAN SHIT: A case for Magic Mike XXL as cult text by Amanda Ann Klein
Uses of the Erotic by Audre Lorde
Magic Mike XXL by Kate Rennebohm
“Any God Worth Believing in Sends You Dudes in Thongs When in Need”: Exploring Women’s Pleasure in Magic Mike XXL by Kristen Warner and Chelsea Bullock
Every Little Thing He Does: Entrepreneurship and Appropriation in the Magic Mike Series by Broderick Chow
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