Tag Archives: Television

Everybody’s an actor/viewer/consumer/product

Posted on February 29, 2012 by

Wallace’s “Fictional Futures” deals with the Contemporary Young Writers in their culture and vs. the older generation. Some of the things he wrote made me think of Southland Tales though, basically through the medium of TV, its ubiquity in the … Continue reading →

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David Foster Super Bowl

Posted on February 6, 2012 by

As if watching the glutinous self-referential and self-congratulating Super Bowl wasn’t enough of a weird trippy communal experience¹ (which I only participate in for the commercials and excuse to eat copious amounts of wings and dips), I now have the … Continue reading →

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Super Bowl Advertisements: Extra Credit Blog Assignment

Posted on February 1, 2012 by

I just realized that, serendipitously though quite inadvertently, in the middle of reading Wallace’s “Westward the Course of Empire Takes its Way” and “E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction,” two texts that are quite engaged w/ the relationship b/t … Continue reading →

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