Baerbel Goebel Stolz
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Body horror and gender scares
Thank you for this post. You have some excellent points here, as I keep thinking of the continued emphasis of swollen limbs, blisters, and injury of many shows focused on the human body. I actually work on a paper about the limitations of body horror in r ... -
And we do not include Wonderfalls???
I am happy you revised a bit, I think it is not just in thought but brevity of this venue that renders it problematic to address a body of work appropriately. I have issues beyond belief, as Brian can attest to, with celebrity culture and attest status... ... -
American Gods
Keep in mind though that the origins text here has a different relationship to textuality and especially the televisual. Many gothic and genre series have since adapted much of the rhetoric and more from Gaiman's work. Even if in a parody style at ti ... -
Actors moving between the worlds...
I agree that we see actors moving between film and television work more often and without much surprise on the viewer's side it seems. This, many would say, has to do with the shift both in quality of television narratives, which lend themselves to b ... -
Trending?
With more series than I ever remember before that deal with weight loss, big brides, how overweight women group around the same, the realm of reality appears to be just as focused on the issue of body mass as contemporary political and nutrition based doc ... -
Hidden away?
Yes, I find the differing roles Kleinfeld's plays simplt intriguing and believe it is in correlation with our financially unstable times. I was attempting to find all the cases where Kleinfeld stepped in (there is at least two a season for the origin ... -
Mothers and Daughters
I, too, find the cultural implications, which are often used to set SYTTD: Atlanta apart from the NY version I feel (which tends to have a more cosmopolitan clientele), quite fascinating. I wonder though, if there is not also a very strong plot of family- ... -
YouTube and Television
A few years back I looked at the uploads of Germany's Next Top Model on YouTube (they had subtitling, were edited to eliminate only specific ads, and commented on by viewers from at least 17 countries at the time) and asked myself similar questions. ... -
Structuralism
I have recently finished an article for a journal on the possible re-introduction of a more structuralist approach in narrative analysis in TV, and I have read Jason Mittell's blog on rhythm in TV series and your response too. And what I see is that ... -
Four Weddings, rare exceptions and class
Great post to begin this theme week. The hetero-normative aspects of the show, I believe, have only been further strengthened in one episode featuring a lesbian couple. Here, a little insight into the couple's private life was offered, but the gender ...