Garret Castleberry
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Nostalgic Industry Studies Model
Virginia, Thank you for your post and for kicking off this week's discussion on Nostalgic Media. When I start to think of the role Nostalgia plays in contemporary media, television specifically, and Stranger Things in particular, the designed manifes ... -
Generationally Removed Simulacral Nostalgia
Wolfgang, Great follow up comments that extend Virginia's flow but also present important questions. Indeed contemporary media must expanded to multiple audiences across numerous platforms toward divergent purposes, levels of enjoyment, and so on. Yo ... -
Media Psychedelics
Daniel, thanks for your contribution to kick off the Star Wars week. This is a remarkable piece of excruciating fan labor, whether the fan represents an outside faction or an industry insider fighting for a voice (and employment). This kind of media brico ... -
Meta-Privilege
...Which we can infer a mode of privilege that is White and male and cleverly linked to his original WWE persona as one of aristocratic sensibility loosely coded in the visual language of colonialism. ... -
Is It Ever "Ok" to Pay Your Dues?
J.J., terrific post that continues to expand our discourse concerning racism and wrestling this week. Deconstructing the cultural history of Eddie Guerrero's numerous layers within the industry feels like a brain busting task. Guerrero continues the ... -
Piper's Pickle
Steve, this is an excellent example that I came across this summer but completely forgot to include in my discussion points. This really speaks to the role narrative as gimmick, gimmick as narrative plays and the telling history of ethnocentrism as a kind ... -
Nostalgia for an Era of Political (In)Correctness
Nick, great comments that extend this conversation into parallel moves and motives of (and extending out of) the Attitude era. Bernadette and you both hit as something tangible when it comes to roles and restorations concerning HHH. The Pedigree isn' ... -
I'm Not Saying Everyone...But An Overt Majority
I don't know that Cena is targeted at women so much on an intentional level. But based on every in-person mixed gender scenario in which I've been in the same room with females of multiple ages during a point where Cena appears on television, th ... -
Reality as Fantasy <=> Fantasy as Reality
Kristine, thank you for your comments. You are spot on in assessing (and critiquing) not only that WWE holds this retconning capability that privileges what content is visible versus invisible but also that they demonstrate biased subjectivity that functi ... -
Narrative Supremacy
Nick, great comments, keenly zeroing in on the media hegemony rule of thumb: control the narrative and you control history. WWE borrows from media titans, whether it be Netflix's go big or nothing at all strategy as well as Disney's corporate sy ...