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Consuming Nostalgia: The Re-packaging and Selling of Our Cultural Identity

Published by Sam Flynn on March 24, 2015

Say ’em with me, one breath: Alien, Predator, Terminator, Indiana Jones, Star Wars, Beetlejuice, Beverly Hills Cop, Blade Runner, Mad Max, Planet of the Apes, Die Hard, Triplets, Conan the Barbarian, Ghostbusters, Jurassic Park (ragged breath) . . . 3 versions of Sherlock Holmes, 3 versions of Robin Hood, 2 films of…

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Newsmen: Days Of Future Past

Published by Sam Flynn on February 16, 2015

Whew, well that all happened fast. In the span of a week, one of America’s most famous newscasters was suspended without pay after mixing up his versions of reality, America’s most famous fake newscaster MORE trusted than any of America’s actual newscasters announced his abdication, and one of America’s preeminent…

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The American “American Sniper” Debate of America

Published by Sam Flynn on January 23, 2015

It’s a telling trend in all media, but most often in film, to slap the word “American” as a adjective in a title, usually if they can’t think of anything better. Sometimes this is justified (there is, after all, la deceivingly-pleasant flower called the American Beauty in existence) and sometimes it’s…

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