Jeff Casey
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same as it ever was?
This is a great post, Andrew. I want to mostly agree with you and then quibble a bit. So, first, you seem to be dead on in diagnosing the inevitable corporatization of podcasting. The Panoply Network is a canny bid by the Slate Media Group to exploit thei ... -
comedic male persona
Thanks for this post Brad! The cantankerous, pathetic, or neurotic comedian persona has become a genre unto itself in the past decades. Arguably Woody Allen was the original innovator of the (implicitly) autobiographical neurotic auteur. Jerry Seinfeld an ... -
The Male Confessional Voice
I don't think I want to dispute with either of you, Kathleen and Brad, on the issue of Maron as an innovator in the medium of podcast or as transmedia pioneer. Though I do want to push back a little on praising Maron as a unique voice of male confess ... -
Pope and White
Great conversation! Playing off both Staci and Bree's comments: Emily/Amanda seems most distinguishable from Olivia Pope in that Pope is a hyper-competent woman of color succeeding in a fantasy meritocracy. Pope is a "fixer"-- the very word ... -
I Basically Agree but...
Yes, if you had to line up the examples listed in the above post, from least successful to most successful in terms of their representations of marginalized people, The Lone Ranger would be off by itself as a pretty clear failure. I selected it as a way i ... -
Universally true?
Do you think this is universally true, or do any of the above listed examples (or others you might think of) actually challenge this privilege? Is the problem inherent to the genre (broadly or narrowly construed), and, therefore, is the genre irredeemable ... -
to make a short story long
In my dissertation, I planned to write about the queer inflected friendship between Watson and Holmes in the BBC’s Sherlock. I ended up cutting that section for various reasons—for one thing, there has been a flood of Sherlock scholarship and criticism. E ... -
Sidekicks Redeemed
Let me make an analogy: A lot of the “westerns” I study— Brokeback Mountain, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, City Slickers, and Deadwood —so dramatically undermine the conventions of the genre that it becomes difficult to apply ... -
Structures...
I was thinking about the structural similarities between the examples and arrived at the following observations. In each example you have an underdog story. The underdog, emerging from meager circumstances (an despised orphan, a farmer from a backwater pl ... -
Bromance
Sammi, thanks for this post. Bromances are central to my dissertation on male friendship in American narrative culture, and the basic position I take therein is that, yes, the bromance as a genre is part of an evolving discourse and performance of homosoc ...