Raritania
Monday, July 16, 2018
Empire, Spies and the Twentieth Century
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Studying international relations certain subjects come up again and again and again. Even when one approaches such things as the rise and fa...
Of
Starhunter
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Starhunter appeared at the tail end of the '90s-era science fiction television boom , and came into that long-crowded field quietly, at...
Reconsidering Philo-Fiction
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Some years ago the philosopher Terence Blake raised the question of "philo-fiction," fiction which uses philosophy the way science...
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Friday, June 1, 2018
Reflections of a NewSpace Skeptic
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NOTE: I penned this piece last summer but have only got around to publishing it now. While some of the details have since dated, it still se...
Wednesday, May 30, 2018
Is the Sci-Fi Blockbuster Frozen in the Early '80s?
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Those who have paid any attention to film history know how high concept and the action/science fiction blockbuster arrived in Hollywood in t...
Thoughts on
Alien: Covenant
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WARNING: SPOILERS I recently saw Alien: Covenant . I didn't expect much. I got even less. To be fair, the Alien series has not be...
Remake, Remake and Remake Again
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Hollywood has always been quick to remake movies. Astonishingly it made three versions of Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon between...
E.H. Carr and William Haggard
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One of the classics one becomes familiar with studying International Relations is E.H. Carr's The Twenty Years' Crisis , widely cons...
Monday, May 28, 2018
Notes on
High Concept: Movies and Marketing in Hollywood
, by Justin Wyatt
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Picking up Justin Wyatt's High Concept I (like most people who pay much attention to this sort of thing these days, I suppose) already ...
Finally, Some Grounds for Optimism?
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NOTE: I penned this piece last summer but have only got around to publishing it now. While some of the details have since dated, it still se...
Friday, May 25, 2018
Thoughts on
Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance and the Rise of Independent Film
, by Peter Biskind
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Shortly after reading Peter Biskind's Seeing is Believing and Easy Riders, Raging Bulls , and being very impressed with those two books...
Peter Biskind and
Star Wars
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In telling the story of Hollywood in the '70s in Easy Riders, Raging Bulls , Peter Biskind cannot avoid discussing Star Wars . Alas, i...
Review:
Easy Riders and Raging Bulls: How the Sex, Drugs and Rock & Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
, by Peter Biskind
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Peter Biskind's history of the New Hollywood, Easy Riders, Raging Bulls , is notorious for its repleteness with unflattering details ab...
Seeing
Star Trek: Voyager
Again
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In reruns the later iterations of Star Trek have been less conspicuous than the original series, and the franchise's relaunch on televis...
Revisiting
The City on the Edge of Forever
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I recently revisited White Wolf's edition of Harlan Ellison's The City on the Edge of Forever , which not only presents his various ...
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