Barton Scott
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Screening Hinduism
The question of Hindu nationalism is a complicated one here, and while there are surely ways in which the ACK has tended to conflate the categories "Hindu" and "Indian," the series has also (as Kartik points out) featured comics that r ... -
EVERYMAN FOR ADLAI
If Eisenhower's TV spots paved the way for the iconic, branded presidential faces that currently grace our living rooms with their august platitudes, this artifact-- as Jenna points out-- does something decidedly different. It offers us an Everyman h ... -
MY INNER MAGIC
Although the New Age aesthetic had me reeling-- beatific doves, wild horses, and hilariously Orientalist set pieces (where IS Deepak Chopra standing in the introductory shot? and did I see a medieval European peasant woman plying deep thoughts?)-- there ... -
ETERNAL LIFE
Karen, thanks for this wonderful post, which has the added virtue of referring back to so many things that we have talked about this week: India (Mother Teresa's Calcutta), religion and the body (as in Vince's post), flickering filmic addresses ... -
THE NEWS AND NATIONAL PUBLICS
This is a great topic for highlighting now only how religion comes to enter and define public space, but also how multiple media coverge to mark this as a "newsworthy" story. I wonder how CBS decided to pick up this particular local spat as a st ... -
Undead Stories
Jenna, thanks for this great response. You call attention to the strange status of these "immortal" stories: they are immortal insofar as they can be brought back to life, resuscitated by the next generation of children's media. And then th ... -
condom camp
Thanks, Kaelin, for posting such a provocative piece of schlock and for your killer comments. I would recommend that those who have not yet seen it take a look at the Killer Condoms trailer on YouTube to get a gander at Giger's toothsoms rubbers: htt ... -
Re: What Bad Does
i heart cdo
Daniel-- thanks for providing me with another opportunity to indulge in my drug of choice. Sasha Frere-Jones is not kidding: you will dream of this viral video by Chris Dane Owens (CDO). This seems so clear an instance of badfilm. It appears to be in de ... -
SCIENCE FAILURE
Thanks to all for your responses. I think that the comments, taken as a whole, suggest the way in which LoveStory 2050 projects a futuristic Bombay/ Mumbai somewhere in between utopia and dystopia. On the one hand, it offers consumer fantasies like those ... -
THE COLONEL'S CANNIBAL
Gee whiz, but The Grusome Twesome really puts the good back in bad. This is, as noted, truly an instance of the badfilm sublime-- so sublime that it has left me at a loss of words and with a strange longing for a pink nighty. I just can't take my e ...