Brian Faucette
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Thanks David for this
Thanks David for this intriguing piece that encapsulates so much about what makes Dragnet an important and problematic text for thinking about the ways in which law and order has been presented to American TV viewers. The ideas of professionalism or as ... -
Jocelyn your post feels so
Jocelyn your post feels so timely in the wake of the chaos regarding immigration policy over the last three years and the discussion of policing in regards to race after the killing of George Floyd. I think it is interesting how you pick up on and explore ... -
Samantha thanks so much for
Samantha thanks so much for writing such a great piece and starting the week off with a discussion of the cop show's history and in particular the way in which 1950s series dealt with such sensitive topics as trauma and sexual violence. Your conncect ... -
Thank you Jonathan for this
Thank you Jonathan for this excellent and thought provoking analysis of how the cop show genre has been used to create narratives of order built on a specific visual style that as you rightly note too often has come at the expense of real "justice.&q ... -
Meta-Storytelling
Thanks for these really interesting insights into thinking about season three as a reworking of the fairy tale, which is a genre that has been of great interest to literature and media scholars and now the industry itself. I think what I took away from se ... -
Kirsty you raise some
Kirsty you raise some interesting questions about whether people who watch the series recognize how Fuller uses aesthetics to create both an intellectual and emotional response to his mode of storytelling. Indeed there are moments where the baroque style ... -
Hannibal as Inverted text
I very much agree with all your points here about how Fuller has used his fascination with the monstrosity and death to "queer" or invert expectations for viewers of his series. While it is true that Fuller relies on elements of "quality TV ... -
Matter and Breaking Bad
Pete, your post on the concept of matter and its importance to the show's narrative and thematic construction is fascinating. Indeed as in the first season when in a flashback Walt is shown using chemistry and mathematics to deconstruct the human bod ... -
Erin, Your piece does an
Erin, Your piece does an excellent job of framing the discourse around Tom Cruise's persona and his function as a star. The notion of a battle between myriad modes of Cruise's stardom is I think a really useful way to consider how Cruise's ... -
Cruise as Grossman
Colin, You raise some really interesting questions here about why Cruise would accept such an unusual role that deviates so greatly from his established screen persona. For me, I believe that Cruise took the role to show that he has greater range as an ac ...