Linda Levitt
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Audience self-reflection
Sarah, thanks for your piece on the curious state of cinemagoing. I've followed with interest the renewed growth of drive-in movies in the US which connects well with the other live cinema events that developed during pandemic. I'm especially fa ... -
Supercuts
Thanks, Nedda, for providing the term to describe this remix of video clips, and the idea of using the supercut as an argument is delightful. I'm also reminded of Cory Doctorow's book Pirate Cinema. Your post gets me thinking about the relations ... -
Play as queering
Adam, this is such a rich idea. I'm thinking about how some public expressions of queerness have been perceived as "in-your-face" as declarations and demands for acknowledgement. Those performances are easy to find faulty. Yet Pee-wee' ... -
Entering and exiting
Thanks, Kevin...the movements you describe add support to the idea of worldmaking. ... -
Re: Pee-Wee’s Daddy
Futuristic nostalgia
The aesthetic of the playhouse is quite fascinating--there's a recent trend to recover mid-century Modernist style, and I can see quite a lot of that in the playhouse too (decades ahead of and behind the times, simultaneously). There's something ... -
Demographics
Drawing on Karen's comments about the sitcom for a female audience...I don't have any data handy, but I recall that in syndication, Golden Girls drew a decent-sized audience of college age women. I wonder if Hot in Cleveland is looking to draw s ... -
USA Network brand
Great piece. Some of the semantic generic characteristics you include are also reflected in Monk and Psych. I see Monk as the first attempt to articulate and shape the USA brand, but the later series, especially Burn Notice and White Collar, are high glo ... -
Re: Rethinking Attachment
Thanks for this incredibly evocative piece. I’m always interested in places where the material and the virtual intersect, and the virtual paperclip is an utterly taken-for-granted icon for me. Rather, it used to be. I appreciate the images you’ve includ ... -
Re: Milk, Eggs, Arugula, Identity: The Grocery List in a Tim...
The grocery list as a site of identity expression comes up in the piece Laura Bergeron and I wrote about Found.com, and I’ve been fascinated by how the grocery list can be, at times, more evocative and substantial than the list of things to do. Your dis ...