Michael D Dwyer
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et game -> sign of changes in 1980s entertainment industries?
I wonder if it's less about the schmaltz of the movie and more about E.T. being one of the early super-merchandized products of synergy-obsessed 1980s Hollywood. As a kid I definitely had an ET bike, an ET storybook record (with a weird poster of ET ... -
so bad it's bad, maybe?
Yeah, well one of the things that's interesting about the video is that by the time the video's narrative begins the "so bad it's good" factor is failing to pay off for them. So why go through the trouble of finding more? It seem ... -
tagging on...
to say that the same discussion could also apply to the 1983 doc STYLE WARS and, in some ways, KRUSH GROOVE, as well--I think you've hit on something really important about the way both Hollywood and pop music responded to the emergence of hip hop as ... -
stay tuned...
That last question is so, so, key. That's one of the big questions I'm trying to deal with this year. Stay tuned! ... -
folk historiography?
Thanks Paul, both for your post and for kicking this week's entries off. One of the things that caught my attention in your post is the persistence of the urban legend. What is it about this story that makes it so appealing to gamers? Does circulatin ... -
nostalgia with a wink?
It's interesting how different the tone of that trailer is than the tone of El Mariachi or Desperado or even the less-serious From Dusk till Done--the music and editing of the trailer show that there's a substantial amount of playing for laughs ... -
representation vs response
Thanks Ryan. I enjoyed yours as well. This is something I've noticed across the posts this week, and beyond that, in my reading on the subject in general--there really is no consistent conceptual framework to talk about nostalgia, memory, retro, etc. ... -
can of worms!
Hi Matthew, The way I use the terms, 'retro' is a mode used in the production or design of texts, while 'nostalgia' is an emotion generated in the reception of texts. There are lots of other modes of representing the past--for example, ... -
I like ATTN as much as
I like ATTN as much as anyone, but I'm not so sure this isn't exploitative regardless of how much Dodson might be using taking advantage of hsi accidental celebrity, or the profit-sharing of the Gregory Brothers. Let's not forget that this ... -
Television in sports
Thanks for the post! This practice continued in American soccer broadcasts all the way up to the 1990 World Cup, broadcast by TNT. I remember missing a goal due to a commercial break. Even in the early years of MLS broadcasts on ESPN they would split the ...