Steven Cohan
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spectatorship, escapism, and history
Thanks for your post Maria. I haven't seen either film so I am only musing upon the issues raised by you and our fellow curators for this week. What strikes me, as noted already, are tropes that give coherence to the way these isolated young people u ... -
self-reflexive Hollywood
Hi James, A very interesting thread. I'd like to pose your question to Staci a bit differently: what is it about contemporary film (or contemporary culture) that makes us assume that, in contrast with the past, there is something different about self ... -
TECHNO-REFLEXIVITY
As impressively subtle as this episode of Columbo is in its self-reflexivity, the clip makes me think of the self-reflexive presence of technology in the procedural narrative more widely. CSI, for instance, has its self-reflexive meditation on its own ... -
I’m also glad to be reminded
I'm also glad to be reminded of what Naked City does with technology, and as Jules notes, there is often an echo of the film's opening in TV procedurals: not only in the multiple storylines of "4x4" or "Viva Las Vegas" episod ... -
YES!
Yes!! Though as I argue in my book, I am not convinced that Grissom's failure to find balance is necessarily a liability in the show--indeed, everytime the personal intrudes, most notably but not always in Catherine's case, it causes problems f ... -
I have written a couple of
I have written a couple of responses that I keep erasing, not to disagree with you Jules by any means! But, to be honest, I have never found Bones very engaging to watch. (I have primarily caught it on an ad-hoc basis as reruns on TNT.) And I am trying ... -
Jules, Your articulate my
Jules, Your articulate my ambivalence about Bones extremely well! That's exactly what I was struggling to say about the status of analysis in the two series. I keep wanting to like Bones more than I do. As for the CSI spin-offs--I don't like ...