Frank Kelleter
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No Specialities
what Shane said! I sometimes feel like large parts of German TV are still stuck on Sesame Street, but without the fun. Then, of course, other large parts of the program consist of imported US productions. But SOPRANOS et al. didn't catch on as TV pro ... -
Thank you, Jason. Tashlin and
Thank you, Jason. Tashlin and Mansfield, the French philosopher and the special effect woman... great lead! I'll be looking into that for the final paper! ... -
"Guy" is an interesting case.
"Guy" is an interesting case. I don't know what exactly they were trying to do (tell a joke? horse around? try something new? go burlesque? self-reflexive?) but whatever it was, it didn't work (for me) because it ended up indecisively ... -
Thank you, and yes: in the
Thank you, and yes: in the end, it's television & film, not a cartoon. I was mostly thinking of Stephan Packard's psycho-semiotic theory of the cartoon "sign", for the way MM dramatizes faces, bodies, interiors. Altogether, the sho ... -
Didion talks very generally
Didion talks very generally about how popular culture in the postwar decade preferred calm harvest colors in order to "advertise this time as the reward for World War Two". (She doesn't address MM or other contemporary retro-narratives.) As ... -
And lest i forget: thank you
And lest i forget: thank you all for these wonderful comments & discussions! ... -
just as a footnote to this:
just as a footnote to this: see Jason Mittell on "the narrative special effect" in "complex" television series. Jason also compares this to the cinema of attractions, but stresses that the effect of such narrative spectacles is differe ... -
Ruth, but we do agree. "Once
Ruth, but we do agree. "Once the show reveals who Don Draper 'is,' nothing is revealed". So I wasn't saying there is real depth, just an evocation of it, as something perpetually elusive, a non-existent character truth that need n ... -
I did, just more
I did, just more politely ... -
Intelligence Is a Warm Gun
(continuing Daniel's post)... or is it that, rather than "very special episodes" we tend to have "very special series" now? And, a propos Daniel's "parody" as potential "social stupidity": When television ...