Jonathan Gray
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yet another
Taylor, while perhaps my comment here is less about paratexts than about parody, following your comment that "I am troubled by how easily images of race, class, and gender diversity can become the unintended, but nevertheless salient targets of ridic ... -
thanks
Thanks Johannes. I love the idea of seeing how much a trailer can carry (more than an elephant, dare I ask?). And what they can't carry. This all makes me think too of the wonderful Onion News Network piece about the planned adaptation of the Iron Ma ... -
work v. text
Ellen, thanks. But I think Barthes' work-text distinction offers us the answer. Sure, a student who has only read a review hasn't read the *work*, but for them the review is the *text*. Part of this stems, though, from my own interest in analyzi ... -
errr, I disagree
Respectfully, I disagree. First off, it's hard to take a show that produces as much comic content as does The Daily Show and then decide, in blanket fashion, that all of that comedy precludes politics. As a large amount of audience research has shown ... -
reply
Robert, you write "it’s that the only political demands Stewart helps viewers to articulate are demands for consensus and rationality that don’t effectively intervene in the spectacular debates that constitute U.S. politics," but that assumes au ... -
yeah
I agree a lot more with this here. Cause of course the show could be better. The challenge is perhaps the same one we face with the teaching profession or mothers-- since they do so much heavy-lifting in society already, it's easy to expect them to d ... -
Damn Those Corporate Dams
The ephemerality of overflow is certainly behind its critical marginalization. In recent years, some of it's been put on DVD bonus materials, and so forth, but by and large, a lot of overflow dissipates, leaving us with a canyon floor that may'v ... -
Who Watches the Watchmen Overflow?
Like Avi, I was struck by the suggestion (perhaps not intended) that articles on overflow are made less worthy or necessary by overflow being an industry standard. I'd say, though, that critical engagements with overflow may be more numerous, but the ... -
Wait, Nina!
@Nina-- I should've added that another reason I like these examples is because they're actually better than the game, which has really poor camera work (not at all smooth when you move, and it gets trapped behind walls a lot). The game still has ... -
New Labor
It's a different type of labor to some degrees, though, since it's labor that, if enjoyed, could become its own labor of love that directs the laborers away from watching other NBC shows. I find it interesting when shows end by saying, "now ...