We’ll confess, we often scoff at university courses that focus exclusively on contemporary pop culture—as much as we would have liked to have taken “The Simpsons as Satirical Authors,” for example, we’re not entirely convinced those classroom hours couldn’t be better spent slogging through Ulysses. But we’d make an exception for a comparative literature course […]
Entries Tagged as 'The Simpsons'
The Universality of Whaam!
October 29th, 2009 · 6 Comments
Tags:comics·education·Gundala·Indonesia·superheroes·The Simpsons
Abraham, Ham
April 1st, 2009 · 2 Comments
Last week, Microkhan sang the praises of Surviving the Game, particularly the strong supporting work done by Gary Busey. We stand by that opinion, but we must confess there’s a reason that Ernest R. Dickerson’s 1994 action flick isn’t part of the mainstream cinematic canon. And that reason is the video above, in which the […]
Tags:F. Murray Abraham·movies·Surviving the Game·The Simpsons