Zombies of today?

I thought this video was funny. It’s how obama’s win lead to people being into a zombish state. I didn’t know how to download the video on here so here’s the link. http://video.yahoo.com/watch/3874846/10562042

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The Word – It’s Alive! | Monday October 27 | ColbertNation.com

Here’s Colbert comparing the Republican party to Frankenstein. Mostly from the movie.But is Palin really the Bride of Frankenstein? What do you guys think? It doesn’t appear to be working on wordpress… but you can find the video here: http://www.comedycentral.com/videos/index.jhtml?videoId=189586

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It’s Aaaaaaliiiiiive!

Leave it to Jon Stewart to make the best analogy we’ll probably encounter all semester. I can’t embed the video because of a WordPress malfunction. But watch them here: 10,000 McCainiacs An Arab Family Man These two clips brought to you by stolen wireless. Thank you neighbors and your unsecured wireless networks!

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Domesticating Death

Across the pop culture landscape, we’re seeing “an attempt to really start domesticating the notion of death,” says Syracuse University television professor Robert Thompson. Science has answered many of our questions, he says, but “Hamlet’s `undiscovered country’ is just as undiscovered as it was when Hamlet first made that soliloquy.” … In times of anxiety, [...]

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Feminism’s Final Girl

The following are my notes for a lecture on Feminism’s Final Girl. Most of the notes are direct quotes from the article, “The Third Wave’s Final Girl: Buffy the Vampire Slayer” by Irene Karras, which was published by Third Space: A Journal of Feminist Theory and Culture, interspersed with my own personal notes. I did [...]

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