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Reboots, Updates, and Reinterpretations

Monday, November 12, 2018 to Friday, November 16, 2018

Theme week organized by

Jayson QuearryGeorgia State University

Fun and Games: ABC's game show reboots

Monday, November 12, 2018

Re-imagining the Teen Drama for 2018: A Darker Teenage Witch

Tuesday, November 13, 2018

Anarky Reinterpreted

By DrSG

Wednesday, November 14, 2018

"How Safe Do You Feel?": James Bond in the Post 9/11 Era

Thursday, November 15, 2018

Find and Fulfill Your Destiny: Clash of the Titans and its Postmodern Simulacrum

By Alexandra Nakelski

Friday, November 16, 2018

Featured Content

9/24/2018 to 9/28/2018
Women's Politicized Screen Voices

Theme week organized by
Jennifer O'MearaTrinity College Dubliin
11/12/2018 to 11/16/2018
Reboots, Updates, and Reinterpretations

Theme week organized by
Jayson QuearryGeorgia State University
11/5/2018 to 11/9/2018
Mythologies and Their Continued Impact

Theme week organized by
Christopher MinzGeorgia State University
10/15/2018 to 10/19/2018
Staff Picks
10/29/2018 to 11/2/2018
Tribute to John Carpenter

Theme week organized by
Andrew KempGeorgia State University
10/22/2018 to 10/26/2018
Fan + Podcasting = Fancasting

Theme week organized by
Dafna KaufmanGeorgia State University

Recent comments

Re: Mythologies of scholarship, the role of imagination in the history of science

Physical vs. Metaphysical Science

By David Melbye

Thursday, November 8, 2018 - 15:00

First, I would like to express appreciation for this post in expanding "mythology" beyond consideration of specific narratives, as in my post, and toward the process of mythologization itself. While making no claims of my own here...
Re: AMC’s Breaking Bad and the Myth of the Frontier

Cultural Trajectories of Conceit and/or the Critique Thereof

By David Melbye

Tuesday, November 6, 2018 - 17:19

In my appreciation of Lisa's Weckerle's post and its subsequent comments, I would like emphasize the dual consideration of mythological "continuity" and "reconfiguration." To appreciate that both may be occuring simultaneously complicates any...
Re: ORDER IN THE UNIVERSE

Captain Voyeur

By Florian Milano

Friday, November 2, 2018 - 15:36

It is an interesting piece, especially because it explains that the themes of order/chaos were Carpenter's obessions before even making full-lenght features. It was great to use the short movie Captain Voyeur, in that perspective. I didn't know...
Re: The Train and the Nonhuman in Halloween

Mechanical Michael

By Florian Milano

Thursday, November 1, 2018 - 14:24

It is a great paper, which shows the richness of Halloween's subtext and the number of interpretations we can make about the character of Michael. His mechanicity, I add, is also shown through his mechanical gait, which has been analyzed a lot, in...
Re: The Fog: John Carpenter’s ‘Liebestod’

Thank you very much Florian

By George Crosthwait

Thursday, November 1, 2018 - 13:29

Thank you very much Florian There's a quote from Carpenter I once read (but now can't find and am starting to think I imagined...) where he says that the secret to making films on a small budget is "to shoot as much as you can, for as long as you...