Dana Och
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films/tv claim that reproduction is same as original
I think that films that feature technology and the occult have a vested interest in purporting that there is no difference between mediation and the original. The mythology of this collapse works in terms of the industry itself as endless reproduction of ... -
Knowledge and Technology
I published a chapter last year that dug into the question that technology lets us see and be aware in found footage horror but that we are still powerless to dominate or use that knowledge effectively. This series picks up on elements of this trend with ... -
Satanic Panic in the Attic
funny that Of Montreal came up as Satanic Panic in the Attic was the inspiration for my title for my piece. Indeed, with Pizzagate an indie dance band has gotten wrapped up in this inadvertently and is being attacked nonstop as occultism, showing a larger ... -
really interesting point by
really interesting point by Stefania re how many people actually learned about GG thru ABC Family (indeed, this is the place that I learned about the show with those daily back to back episodes). I love the ASP comment that she never imagined herself as a ... -
Alloy
I am fascinated that this is happening through Alloy Entertainment, as we had an interesting discussion about it at CP during the ABC Family panel. I definitely think we will be seeing (and need to be doing) more work on them, as the transmedia stories be ... -
Historical Moment
Karen, As a lover of twin stories and mistaken identity from my teen years (and my young adult fiction), I think that 1) the interest in multiple identities and doppelgangers is happening more broadly (Revenge, The Vampire Diaries, Awake), and 2) this tex ... -
Ethical Dilemma
There are a lot of ethical dilemmas here. The show locates the lower class characters as more successful/admirable than the wealthy characters, in particular for the ways that they all understand performing identity. The lower class characters (mostly wor ... -
Before the blog goes public
The lack of "danger" in Jenna's blog is reinforced through how invisible it is, seeming to in fact function more like a private diary (when she started getting comments from Anonymous I was surprised. This is further matched by the "da ...