Rebecca Housel

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Fifty Shades of Greige in 21st Century Hollywood

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Rebecca Housel Wiley-Blackwell

January 22, 2013
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Fifty Shades of Greige in 21st Century Hollywood Twilight patriarchy Hollywood film Fifty Shades of Grey Edward E. L. James Christian Bella Bechdel Test BDSM Ana Curator's Note Between April and August of 2012, author Erica Leonard (E. L. James) sold ...
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It's Alive!!!

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Rebecca Housel Wiley-Blackwell

June 21, 2011
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It's Alive!!! Data Entanglement Frankenstein intellectual event horizon Intelligence Explosion Nanotechnology science Star Trek: The Next Generation technological singularity The Borg TV Failure Vernor Vinge Curator's Note It’s Alive!!! Data fro ...
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Eclipsing the "Real": Twilight & Simulacra

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Rebecca Housel Wiley-Blackwell

July 01, 2010
Eclipsing the "Real": Twilight & Simulacra Angel Anne Rice Buffy the Vampire Slayer Charlaine Harris Elizabeth Bathory Interview with a Vampire jean Baudrillard Joss Whedon Kali LJane Smith Simulacra Southern Vampire Mysteries Stephenie Meye ...

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Re: It Hurts: "Kill Bill" Passes "Swimmingly"

Beg to Differ

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Rebecca Housel Wiley-Blackwell

Friday, January 25, 2013 — 4:31 am
Great piece on Tarantino! The thing about Tarantino is, he represents a new generation of young women--the girls doing kick boxing, karate, fencing, and shooting bullseyes at the gun club. I'm one of those "girls"--the first group to ride t ...
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Re: Killer Women: "American Horror Story - Asylum"

Great piece!

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Rebecca Housel Wiley-Blackwell

Friday, January 25, 2013 — 5:04 am
Terrific clip and equally terrific piece on the "golden age" of television...so true! It's amazing to consider how something like American Horror Story and cable vehicles like True Blood are so popular on television today. Just twenty years ...
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Re: At Work

There will be much more....

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Rebecca Housel Wiley-Blackwell

Friday, January 25, 2013 — 4:46 am
Brilliant women will be featured collaborating on screen for more than just men. Patriarchy has existed for thousands of years--at least that we can find written evidence of, but surely, it's been a bit longer than that.;) We ladies have only had our ...
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Re: Fifty Shades of Greige in 21st Century Hollywood

Thanks for your great comment!

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Rebecca Housel Wiley-Blackwell

Thursday, January 24, 2013 — 5:04 pm
Ana is surprisingly strong in the books; the fantasy of having a man (who is really a woman--EL James) know exactly where and how to touch you and never betray your trust or take advantage of your vulnerability is too good to be true in real life, but if ...
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Re: Fifty Shades of Greige in 21st Century Hollywood

Thanks for your great comment!

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Rebecca Housel Wiley-Blackwell

Thursday, January 24, 2013 — 5:12 pm
Not everyone has read the Trilogy but it has broken sales records, surpassing all of Rowling's seven books combined in world-wide sales and breaking NYTimes Bestseller list records by monopolizing the top three spots for a solid 20 weeks. I started t ...
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Re: The Bitch List Project

Thanks!

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Rebecca Housel Wiley-Blackwell

Monday, January 21, 2013 — 9:00 pm
Change takes time, but sitting around and watching the clock doesn't bring change--action does. And you've taken such action through your Bitch List. Just by existing, you're already raising awareness. The more you can educate people about ...
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Re: Daily Double-Take: the Friendly "Face" of AI

The Singularity IS Near...

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Rebecca Housel Wiley-Blackwell

Tuesday, June 21, 2011 — 7:15 pm
It's quite remarkable how pop culture fits in to the "priming" of the public you mentioned in your piece. Though there are many literary and media caveats warning about AI, it appears those of us with more prominent concerns as part of the ...

Bio

Dr. Rebecca Housel, The Pop Culture ProfessorTM, is an author and editor in Wiley's Philosophy & PopCulture series; you can see her LIVE in 2013 on the Wizard World Comic Con tour. Along with a recent book review for the Journal of American Culture on Sex and Disability, Housel has authored two other articles published in 2013, including "Eating Your Brain," on 21st century zombies for PHILOSOPHY NOW magazine and a book chapter on vampires in pop culture for the anthology, EVIL IN POPULAR CULTURE, co-edited by Jody Pennington (Praeger). Housel is also the author/editor of True Blood & Philosophy: We Wanna Think Bad Things with You (Wiley 2011, 2010), Twilight & Philosophy: Vampires, Vegetarians and the Pursuit of Immortality (Wiley 2009), X-Men and Philosophy: Uncanny Insight and Amazing Argument in the Mutant X-Verse (Wiley 2009), and, From Camera Lens to Critical Lens (Cambidge SP 2006). Housel authored The High Seas series (High Noon 2001), five books of middle-grade fiction on maritime communities in the 19th century. Dr. Housel is on the Editorial Advisory Boards for the Journal of Popular Culture and Journal of American Culture. Rebecca Housel's blog reaches more than 200,000 fans; she has been interviewed by and quoted in USA TODAY, The Huffington Post, Inside Higher Ed, Redbook magazine, Woman's World, Marie Claire, Gelf magazine, FOX, YNN, and NBC. Housel has published more than 70 articles, essays, book chapters, book reviews, and encyclopedia entries...including three special short pieces featured here on IN MEDIA RES. Follow Dr. Rebecca Housel @DocHousel on Twitter or become a fan on Facebook! Please visit www.RebeccaHousel.com for more on Dr. Rebecca Housel, The Pop Culture ProfessorTM!