Tom Petty’s America Is The One We Want To Believe In
The rock star sang the gospel of carefree living — a message this country desperately needs to hear.
This Future Looks Familiar: Watching Blade Runner in 2017
I would not call the world of Blade Runner strange, because it’s the opposite of strange. It’s familiar. If you subtract the flying cars and the jets of flame shooting…
Fantasyland
by Kasia Babis on the Nib
The Adorkable Misogyny of The Big Bang Theory
The Big Bang Theory provides a perfect lens through which to deconstruct a popular media trope I like to call the Adorkable Misogynist. Adorkable Misogynists are male characters whose geeky…
Divine Trash Documentary 1998
The life and times of Baltimore film maker and midnight movie pioneer, John Waters. Intercut with a 1972 interview of Waters are clips from his first films and recent interviews…
Zelda in Pet Sematary (1989) Revives Images of Family Repression
In Robin Wood’s renowned essay “The American Nightmare” he discusses the family as being the site of repression. His essay primarily focuses on how families limit expression of anything other…
What Happens to Fiction When Our Worst Climate Nightmares Start Coming True?
Movies, books and poetry have made predictions about a future that could be rapidly approaching {read}
Culture through the lens of robots
I feel like these three Podcast Eps are really interesting to listen to one right after the other. About what culture means and how it impacts the way we see…
The cosmic ballet goes on: 15 of our favorite pop-culture eclipses
The Simpsons has prominently featured a solar eclipse twice in its long run, but most memorably in the Season 20 episode “Gone Maggie Gone,” where Marge is stricken blind and…