Erika Johnson-Lewis
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Distancing ourselves
I also wonder too at our eagerness to engage with the text as a social and cultural phenmenon but how quickly the impulse arises to frame our interest in terms of critique and academic interest. Why do we place the collective pleasure we got from "h ... -
showing
Local theater, late showing. The crowd was pretty mixed with a few kids I thought were too small. One little girl near us was scared but no one would leave the theater with her. ... -
Lost in translation?
I am glad to see someone else had the same kind of reaction to the gleeful cheering of Clove's death from the audience. It was disheartening and made me want to get and yell at everyone that they were missing the point. The adaptation is good, but in ... -
More of /b/ in action
Came across this in my feed today and thought about this post: www.boingboing.net/2010/08/24/internet-finds-cat-t.html ... -
Re: Genre Matters
Interesting post. I wonder
Interesting post. I wonder if appropriating the sci-fi genre to make a documentary more entertaining or engaging has any relation to what something like The Daily Show does with satire and the news; it performs a journalistic function but without conformi ... -
Responses
Robert: I like your suggestion about the question of collective memories. I'm not sure how Dollhouse might speak to that since it seems to be fairly preoccupied with the loss of autonomy/self/individuality, which then I suppose leads to a communal lo ...