Monthly Archives: September 2005

The Truth of the Word, the Falsity of the Image: Transmetropolitan’s critique of the society of the spectacle

By Steen | September 19, 2005

In this paper, I investigate the binary opposition, which is instated between words as true and images as false in Warren Ellis and Darick Roberts’ Transmetropolitan series, which deals heavily with the notion of truth in a dystopic future. The series’ protagonist Spider Jerusalem is a journalist trying to show a world that doesn’t care [...]

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Brett Sullivan, Ginger Snaps: Unleashed

By Steen | September 16, 2005

Ginger Snaps: Unleashed is the sequel to Ginger Snaps, from 2000 so there has been quite some time to develop the mythology of the werewolf-myth. Along with Ginger Snaps Back: The Beginning, these three films present a very interesting take on the werewolf myth and while none of the fims share directors or writers they [...]

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Garth Jennings, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

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The adaptation of Douglas Adams’ cult novels, it has a very difficult legacy to live up to and in many ways is trying to do perform an impossible task. Adams’ humor is not easily translatable, depending mostly on strange coherences and sidetracking bits. To its credit, the film does try to keep the spirit of [...]

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Dominant culture and sf

By Steen | September 8, 2005

If we argue that the Imaginary of dominant culture is always a combination and culmination of appropriated forms and plagiarizings (Halberstam & Livingston, Posthuman Bodies), in other words a form of cultural and social recuperation (Hebdige, The Meaning of Style), then we begin to get an idea of the process of cultural dissemination and the [...]

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Michael Bay, The Island

By Steen | September 2, 2005

The Island is sort of two films in one, but it is not better for it. It is clearly inspired by George Lucas’ THX 1138, but while no one can accuse Lucas of being emotionally cogent, he makes it work to his advantage in creating the future society, but Bay seems interested in having his [...]

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