Ethan Hunt Saves Tom Cruise: Using ‘Cinematic Empathy’ to Overcome Personal Fallout Mission Impossible Tom Cruise Ethan Hunt Fallout phenomenology Curator's Note When Mission: Impossible- Fallout released in July 2018, Richard Brody compared the film ...
Assemble!: Proposing the 'Hero Tableau' in Comics and Superhero Film Marvel Retrospective MCU The Avengers Marvel Comics superhero superheroes Curator's Note Lately, I have been reading Secret Wars, the limited series published by Marvel Co ...
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David, what an ideal post to start off this theme week on Bond in contemporary culture! This Olympics ceremony spectacle, as you've suggested, perfectly straddles classical (Masque rituals, Shakespearian literature) and modern British history and po ...
First off, Daniel, kudos for supplying your own edit of the Heinekenverse commercials! Your inclination to see this series of paratexts as their own interconnected universe and Heineken's own efforts to make them appear so, for me, reflects the inc ...
Eva, I am so glad you have brought up the discourse around who will succeed Craig as Bond, since that conversation, as you show, has been such a major part of this franchise's last few years. While I recognize that Elba is now highly unlikely to eve ...
Yes, good call on the GoldenEye re-release! I do hope that wider web of connections that you speak of manages to extend past the paratexts into the mainline franchise, as I feel like the rebooted continuity of the Craig era has become a little too stric ...
I have always been a pretty stanch Quantum of Solace supporter, so I'm really happy to hear it improved on a rewatch for you, Daniel. That one-two punch of Casino and Quantum might be the most emotionally resonant pairing in the entire Bond ca ...
A terrific post to finish out the week on, Claire! Your (Q)uestion about whether Q has more relevance in modern day espionage than “a blunt instrument” like James Bond got me thinking about a major theme to run throughout Craig’s tenure. From Casino up ...
As someone who is currently working on a dissertation that partially looks at the phenomenology of memory, I really appreciated your post, George. Like you, I found Takahata's rendition of Taeko's past and present colliding in the film's c ...
A really necessary topic to include in the theme week, Ryan, and one I think you've expressed eloquently. Female protagonists like Kiki, Nausicaä, Taeko in Only Yesterday, and Anna in When Marnie Was There not only support your claims for Ghibli&# ...
I am really taken by your application of mu to Takahata's tendency towars a less defined line. Memorial images are always our own subjective reassemblage of a previous perception, so the- as you say- empherality of the flashback's style in co ...
Completely agree with your sentiment here, Ryan! It's very much a two sides to one coin situation, where the protagonist and antagonist have to be in sync, in terms of complexity. Like you, I cannot imagine a villain being reformed or choosing to r ...
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