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I'm reading a PhD Thesis about pro-wrestling, and it is coming out of the gate swinging.
It says, the WWF was built on the back of "Terry “Hulk Hogan” Bollea, a 330 pound, 6’8” blonde strongman
with off-the-charts charisma and limited technical wrestling skill" and, yes that's absolutely true but I've never read it put so directly.
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I read a *lot* of academic papers on media and entertainment and most of them are dry and dense.
This one is breezy and conversational. Information dense, for sure, but written by someone who clearly enjoys reading (unlike many of the papers I read.)
So how the hell does that work?
A DB Sparpreis Germany-France VIA LUXEMBOURG. Using a train that doesn't even start in Germany for the last leg.
Details on Georgia school shooting suspect. And, Russian media hired U.S. influencers (Brittney Melton/NPR)
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'A Big Ripoff': White Nationalist Nick Fuentes Blasts Trump for Admitting He Lost the 2020 Election (Kyle Mantyla/Right Wing Watch)
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A month ago a 100g pack of rice crackers were $2. Now a 90g pack of the same rice crackers are $2.10. That's a 16.5% price increase.
#Woolworths #Shrinkflation #CostOfLiving
In Colorado, representatives of the Southern Ute Indian Tribe and the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe have held ongoing negotiations with elections official to work out a new program to register more Native people.
They’ve met about 10 times over the last year. boltsmag.org/automatic-voter-r…
> George Orwell has entered the chat.
I restrained myself from commenting on the current political climate. You're welcome.
A man used AI music to defraud the streaming business out of $10 million.
The fraud was less about all the fake bands releasing fake songs created in partnership with an unnamed exec at an AI music company, and more about the many, many accounts he made to stream all of his AI tunes on Spotify, Apple Music, and Amazon Music in order to get paid.
Impressively, he was ahead of the AI hype. His scheme started in 2017.
Do Migraine Glasses Work or Are They Just a Scam?
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Climate Change’s Profound Effects on Eggs
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Andrew (Television Executive)
in reply to Andrew (Television Executive) • • •Usually, there's this huge mismatch between how interesting the subject of the paper is, and how interesting the paper itself is.
The worst example of this, I think, is The Hollywood Meme, which proposes an anthropological framework for analyzing transnational, cross cultural adaptation of media properties in the 20th century and beyond.
Basically, it recasts modern pop culture as folklore (great!) and then gives repeated examples of the ways that things that appear to be adaptations or remakes are often so completely transformative as to really only use the American property as a kind of set dressing to tell an entirely new story (Wonderful!) and then the paper goes in to a deep dive on several films from multiple countries and compares the way each region's adaptations of American properties served as a reflection of their cultures and their economic situation and ...
It should be a slam dunk. Everything about this book should be a slam dunk.
But it's so MECHANICAL. "In this chapter I will X, Y, Z." followed by X, Y, Z, followed by "In the preceding chapt
... show moreUsually, there's this huge mismatch between how interesting the subject of the paper is, and how interesting the paper itself is.
The worst example of this, I think, is The Hollywood Meme, which proposes an anthropological framework for analyzing transnational, cross cultural adaptation of media properties in the 20th century and beyond.
Basically, it recasts modern pop culture as folklore (great!) and then gives repeated examples of the ways that things that appear to be adaptations or remakes are often so completely transformative as to really only use the American property as a kind of set dressing to tell an entirely new story (Wonderful!) and then the paper goes in to a deep dive on several films from multiple countries and compares the way each region's adaptations of American properties served as a reflection of their cultures and their economic situation and ...
It should be a slam dunk. Everything about this book should be a slam dunk.
But it's so MECHANICAL. "In this chapter I will X, Y, Z." followed by X, Y, Z, followed by "In the preceding chapter, I gave examples of X, Y, and Z, and in the following chapter we will explore how this can be complicated by A B and C." Over and Over again forever.
Andrew (Television Executive)
in reply to Andrew (Television Executive) • • •And, like, I don't have a degree. I don't write academic papers.
I learned a ton from The Hollywood Meme. It was a hugely informative book that developed a useful framework for analyzing cross-cultural adaptations in film.
But I can't help but think that it could have been Enjoyable too, you know?
There's another book often sold along side it as a companion piece called "How the World Remade Hollywood"
I dunno if the two are related. I don't know much about the folks who wrote them.
I know that they cover the same ground, but How the World Remade Hollywood is less academic, significantly broader and less deep, and ultimately less useful as a book, but it's 10x more fun to read.
Andrew (Television Executive)
in reply to Andrew (Television Executive) • • •And, generally speaking, I've learned to live with this. Academic stuff tends not to be super fun to read. That's fine.
But it absolutely can be, and it's delightful when I find something that is.
Andrew (Television Executive)
in reply to Andrew (Television Executive) • • •(I keep both The Hollywood Meme and How the World Remade Hollywood in stock at our bookstore, if you're interested.
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They start on the same ground, but one goes deep in to cultural analysis, and the other goes broad covering 65 films and talking about how they were made and what they changed rather than why they were made, and what they mean.)
Andrew (Television Executive)
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in reply to Andrew (Television Executive) • • •Andrew (Television Executive)
in reply to Andrew (Television Executive) • • •(The worst part is when the other papers are behind a paywall.
I don't do this often enough or deep enough to know the tricks.)
Andrew (Television Executive)
in reply to Andrew (Television Executive) • • •"Archiving the demise of
Louisiana wrestling has value to scholars interested in the history and metaphysical
transformation of this performance practice around the United States—and, indeed,
around the world from a practice primarily watched live to a performance seen on
television, pay per view, and the Internet." (Page 25)
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Hoooooooo, he's cooking.
This is absolutely my bullshit.
Andrew (Television Executive)
in reply to Andrew (Television Executive) • • •Examining the demise of regional wrestling in Louisiana as a microcosm for the rise of a national monoculture powered by television and eventually the internet?
You know it's going to be good.