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Friday, December 9, 2022
The Need for Movies to be "Events" and the Fate of the Marvel Cinematic Universe
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The decline of movie theater-going is a story that has been told many a time--not least by the writer of this blog post. Short version: i...
Martin Eden, Radical Rightist
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In Jack London's Martin Eden the eponymous protagonist, discovering the world of books and the ideas in them, early on happens on the w...
History as Superhero Tale
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A.J.P. Taylor quipped in one of the essays collected in Europe From Napoleon to the Second International that in biography the biographer &...
Wednesday, December 7, 2022
Is Marvel the New Star Wars?
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When Disney bought Star Wars it was clear that they meant to make Star Wars another Marvel-like mega-franchise, producing rather than a new...
Tuesday, December 6, 2022
Black Panther 2's Fourth Weekend
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Black Panther 2 took in some $18 million in its fourth weekend, bringing its gross during the first twenty-four days of its North American r...
Centrist Dystopias
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Recently remarking the way the YA boom that was so impressive in the early 21st century, and especially the early '10s, collapsed, I was...
"Neoliberal Superheroes"
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It has long seemed to me that the superhero's popularity today is primarily a cinematic phenomenon, and that the superhero's stature...
Wednesday, November 30, 2022
Black Panther 2's Second Weekend: A Note
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Here's the post I wrote after Black Panther 2's second weekend. I didn't get it posted in time, but thought it best to put it up...
Black Panther 2's Third Weekend
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As of its third weekend Black Panther 2 has taken in just under $368 million --by all conventional measures, a healthy sum indeed. But this ...
Tuesday, November 15, 2022
Is the Media Trying Harder to Convince Us That Cinematic Flops Have Been Hits?
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Not long ago I wrote about how film critics have become much more prone to give good reviews of films this past decade or so --in spite of t...
Jack London's Anti-Nietzscheanism in
Martin Eden
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Jack London is said to have thought that, at least on the level of his intended conveyance of his critique of the individualistic outlook ex...
Is Black Panther 2 a Commercial Failure?
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Hollywood's release schedule continues to normalize. The summer release schedule was thinner than usual (a mere four top-grade would-be...
Thursday, November 10, 2022
Did the Smart Phone End the Young Adult Fiction Boom?
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Between the late 1990s and the mid-2010s there would seem to have been an extraordinary boom in Young Adult (YA) fiction. Hence phenomena li...
Wednesday, November 9, 2022
George Carlin's Comment on "Offensive Language," and the Train Wreck of the English Language Today
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I have in the past had occasion to remark George Carlin's remarks about the word " lifestyle "--which seem to me to absolutely...
Sunday, October 30, 2022
Ian Fleming and the Culture Wars
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Recently I had occasion to remark the irony of the view widespread on the right that Star Wars had "turned left." This is because...
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