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  Re: Can the Sidekick Protest? The Dissonant Sidekick and the Limits of Representing Difference in Contemporary Media

  sidekick containmment

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  Daniel Keyes University of British Columbia

  Tuesday, December 16, 2014 — 9:44 pm

  I agree with Micheal's comment above that side kicks as an off shoot of the buddy film are all about containing a crisis white male privilege by glibly inoculating other voices. ...