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Dystopian TV Shows and Films: An Introduction
Dystopian settings have been a staple of speculative and science fiction for over a century. While Jules Verne was penning his tales of great…
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Intellectual Discussion, Smart Entertainment…Dead and Gone?
Check out this stirring article on the death of theatregoing culture and the rise of new media. A couple of excerpts. Film culture, at…
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Why Retail Sucks: Difference Between the Haves and Havenots
The study of customer service seems primarily reserved to business-oriented, sociological research, or so my database searches would suggest. However, it is certainly a…
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Go On, Get Cultured: Big-T Theatre vs. little-T (movie) theatre
I once went with a friend to see a production of Proof at my university’s theatre. I was a student there and worked both…
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Anthropology is Huh???…the National Geographic Effect
When I tell people I am studying anthropology, I quite frequently get one of these responses: “So you dig up pots?” “So you study…
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The Art of Immersion: Found Footage and Classical Film
The “found footage” genre (style?) of filmmaking was wildly popularized for the horror genre beginning with the (in)famous Sundance entrant “The Blair Witch Project,”…