Vernon Shetley
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Penis and Pathos
Thanks so much for this... dare I call it suggestive... post. Examples of male nudity that fall into the melodramatic/comic opposition come immediately to mind: Harvey Keitel in Bad Lieutenant, as melodramatic as they come; Jason Segel in Forgetting Sarah ... -
Prison realities
Daisy's post valuably points us back to the brutal realities of the contemporary American regime of mass incarceration, a regime that is, in Adam Gopnik's words (New Yorker 1/30/2012), "the moral scandal of American life." No doubt OIT ... -
Time and Binge-Watching
To further extend these thoughts about “time” in OITNB, one might observe that time-shifting is often associated with a rhetoric of “freedom,” in which the DVR is seen as offering viewers liberation from the tyranny of network scheduling, thus expanding c ... -
Expatriation as protest
The story about Delaria deciding to abandon the US over her disappointment at TV casting practices echoes a key episode in the life of Bruce Lee. An oft-told story (true in broad outlines, though the details are more complicated) is that Lee, losing out o ... -
One of these things is not like the other
Yesterday’s and today’s posts bring home how different the world of ad-supported TV is from premium cable. I think I’m remembering correctly that, as the friends are pitching their “show about nothing” in the origin story episode of Seinfeld, one of the s ...