Archive for the ‘ television ’ Category
“In the history of network television, no remake of a previous hit series has ever become a hit itself on network television.” Bill Carter in the New York Times, December 27, 2009 We could learn a lot about the culture of the moment by asking why what attracts viewers to the movies repels them in [ READ MORE ]
It is the serial killer’s responsibility to exceed in beauty every attempt by the cops or the psychologists to apprehend him, and it is always a him. He is an aesthete who, whether his victims are skinned, decapitated, defenestrated, dismembered, skewered, raped, or stewed, always admires them for their appearance, with an utterly uncultured, almost [ READ MORE ]
A theory of the contemporary theater might begin with the juxtaposition of Bertolt Brecht and the reality show. They share more in common than one would think. Indeed the reality show, which rejoices in the struggle for survival and forces the viewer to identify with the principle of selection in all its savagery, is nothing but the Brechtian drama trans- and disfigured [ READ MORE ]
