Allison McCracken
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lesbian visibility
Wow! Great piece, and this is such an amazing video--I can't believe the production values here and it is so wonderful to see two girls skating together. As a longtime male figure skating fan, I was so pleased at the attention Yuri brought to the way ... -
Riverdale
Your discussion here, Elissa, made me immediately think of the second season of the current popular teen "millennial noir" (to borrow Louisa's term) Riverdale, which seems like it's doing much of the same kind of work in its developmen ... -
Digital empathy
I appreciate you sharing this story and video of this new type of digital 3D experience, which is fascinating. I haven't heard of this iteration of digital experience before but I absolutely agree that digital media offers opportunities for visceral ... -
Gendered TV
Sorry I am late to the party today! This entire conversation is wonderful--love the points about the way quality tv is gendered and the way Fuller is inverting that, in both text and interactions with audience. Absolutely agree with Kirtsy that male stude ... -
The sigh before the hand
I love this discussion and wholly agree with the points all of you are making about how "the glass" moment in Hannibal as yet another way in which this text is offering us something new that, as Lori says so well, both "recalls and does som ... -
"Adult" TV
It's so funny that your husband called the show for "grown ups," because I have been describing it as a "show for adults" for months now in my head, although not out loud because, as you suggest, it implies devaluation of other ty ... -
Fandom as ritual practice
I really appreciate this post and the comments, because it's an area of fandom I hadn't really thought much about before, and Hannibal has really made me aware of it. I love the idea of fans preparing meals and eating together as a kind of ritua ... -
The Fullerverse
I am really happy that we're beginning Hannibal week with your very insightful piece contextualizing the show within the "Fullerverse." I haven't seen many of these programs for a long time, but you have made me definitely want to go b ... -
Monsters and Horror
Agree with all of this. Certainly I read Fuller as very much within the horror tradition, which in literature, pulp fiction, and film has often been the province of queerly-identified directors and/or female writers (Frankenstein being the obvious paralle ... -
Absolutely, yes—“inversion”
Absolutely, yes--"inversion" is the perfect word (for many reasons--I think of how queer people used to be called "inverts, historically). A lot of the posts for this week will give great examples of that conflation of beauty and horror tha ...