Adryan Glasgow
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What about adult audiences?
I'm concerned here about the assumption that these teen characters are representative of adolescents instead of the adults who create them. Perhaps the absence of parents (the magical disappearing parent?) is actually a function of adult writers and ... -
At the risk of evoking Freud . . .
The first glimpse we get of this church is a quite phallic steeple, which could be taken to suggest dominance and indoctrination. However, as the female guardian figure enters the room, there is a sexual intimacy between the young woman and the the young ... -
Profoundly useful framework!
What a great reading. As a fan of the American New Sincerist movement, I have often puzzled why zombie narratives and increasingly localized art seem to be corresponding phenomena. In both reading TWD and watching the show, I have wondered at the locatio ... -
Punishing Ed post-Romero
Thanks for your comments, Heather. I hate to nitpick, but the more I think about Ed the more I think we need to be critical of even his treatment in the TV series. First, because Ed is not punished for abusing his wife or daughter. He crosses the line whe ... -
Nina, I whole-heartedly agree
Nina, I whole-heartedly agree with you. But I want to add one caution: I don't buy that patriarchy is the historic "state of nature" for humanity as a species. Who knows, we may have Neolithic foremothers who would be astounded to see what ...