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“Essential Epic Fantasies: Wrap-Up”

By Guttersnipe on June 14, 2013 • ( Leave a comment )

Pornokitsch finishes determining essential epic fantasy, with statistics, graphs and lists of their selections. Nice to see Homer in there.

Pondering The Red Wedding

By Guttersnipe on June 8, 2013 • ( Leave a comment )

The AV Club consider the emotional impact of Game of Thrones’ Red Wedding episode. Gus Mustrapa considers pranks, punchlines, Schadenfreude and the Red Wedding: “This weekend a booby-trap three years in the making was sprung. Millions of TV viewers watching A Game of Thrones took the proverbial blow. A […]

“Japanese Science Fiction of the 1930s”

By Guttersnipe on June 5, 2013 • ( Leave a comment )

Jess Nevins writes about Sato Minoru’s The Foreign Farm (1931), Japanese science fiction in the late Nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries and “the White Peril.”

“Anatomy of a Logo: Star Wars”

By Guttersnipe on June 3, 2013 • ( Leave a comment )

Tenth Letter of the Alphabet examines the elaboration of the Star Wars logo–with an extensive gallery of images!

Jane Eyre is a Darker than People Think

By Guttersnipe on May 15, 2013 • ( 2 Comments )

“[T]he mainstreaming of Jane Eyre as a vanilla romance, or even as an exploration of a woman’s pure, uncompromising, and uncomplicated (and religious! and feminist!) integrity, says all kinds of things about our inability to speak honestly about violence and sex.” More on Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, consent, sex […]