Evaluating how products such as Boyhood, Ms. Marvel and Utopia do identity work

What this note covers

1. Identity work concerns how a product makes belonging and difference meaningful
2. Boyhood: duration and selected moments of growing up
3. Ms. Marvel: several relationships can coexist within one character
4. Utopia: professional identity and institutional language
5. Compare personal, cultural and institutional identity processes
6. Evaluate identity work without claiming measured audience effects
7. Explain identity as a relationship that develops across scenes
8. Distinguish a satirical role from a claim about every worker

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