Michael Peterson
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Inside out
"The film turns itself inside out trying to hold onto Tonto and, in the process, creates an auto-critique, in which even the characters don’t want to be part of the film." Wow, nicely put! What if the genre turned itself inside out? Are there an ... -
Side Kick Booster Shot
Well, first of all, thanks for watching this film so I don't have to (feel free to disregard my comments as they're based only on the sample). I'm willing to go with you as far as thinking that these dissonant sidekicks are there to try to ... -
I think Lisa's last question
I think Lisa's last question is precisely the right one. I actually think it may be the_overt_ meaning of the scene and of much of her (plural) characters' part of the narrative. Sharon is both martyred and sexualized here (does the very last sh ... -
Ellen: Thanks for putting
Ellen: Thanks for putting that so much more clearly. Yes, we could even say that the show is at some pains to show that it "doesn't care" about race, but that it does care about racism. This is a kind of foundation, or window-dressing, depe ... -
I wonder how the underdog
I wonder how the underdog status of the human characters is overlaid by viewers' sense of the underdog status of the show and even the network in the programming universe. I think this was at work in the way many responded to BTVS as well--wanting Bu ... -
It seemed to me that in the
It seemed to me that in the early seasons CSI made a point of being predominantly set in the "real" Las Vegas; I remember crane shots that pulled away from a suburban crime scene to show the Strip looming in the distance, etc., but very few Stri ... -
Not sure this does what Lisa
Not sure this does what Lisa is asking for, but good previouslies for good shows offer really intense, concentrated pleasure. For me, the high point of the Buffy arc was the season three title sequence, but frequently the recaps seemed to set up the pleas ... -
Related to your point, Lisa,
Related to your point, Lisa, is the way Starbuck has available to her a relatively broad scope of "female masculinity" while Sharon's power rarely gets beyond "feisty." If she's had a fight scene like the one between Cara and ... -
Hey Shilpa! Really
Hey Shilpa! Really interesting stuff. When you say "the racial foreign-ness of Harold and Kumar are displaced by the regional stereotypes of the American South" do you think this leveraging of the South as internal other marks a kind of accompli ...